Data Warehouse Analyst (Snowflake or Informatica PowerCenter) (10/17)

Data Warehouse Analyst Job Location: Tallahassee, FL Job Duration: Contract through June + annual extension Job Overview: Responsible for gathering and assessing business information needs and preparing system requirements. Performs analyses, development, and evaluation of data mining in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment which includes data design, database architecture, and data management utilizing Informatica PowerCenter, Intelligent Data Quality, and Enterprise Data Catalog. Uses data mining and data analysis tools including Power BI and Tableau. Reviews and validates data loaded into the data warehouse for accuracy. Interacts with user community to produce reporting requirements. Provides technical consulting to users of the various data stores and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage. Responsible for prototyping solutions, building solutions, preparing test scripts, and conducting tests for Snowflake data population including data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and transforming the data. Responsible for enterprise data modeling. Maintains knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that effectively support the Snowflake cloud data warehouse environment. Required Experience: A minimum of 7 years of IT work experience utilizing data management tools, business intelligence tools, and data warehousing. Extensive experience with Informatica PowerCenter and Snowflake is preferred. Job Duties: Participates in strategic planning for the Snowflake enterprise data warehouse. Analyzes transactional data stores and develops data warehouse models to optimize the warehouse data stores for reporting and analytics. Prototypes, builds, and tests extraction, transformation, and load (ETL or ELT) jobs. Prototypes, builds, and tests data quality processes and related jobs. Ensures data warehouse metadata is collected and maintained. Prototypes, builds, and tests Power BI reports and dashboards. Prototypes, builds, and tests Tableau reports and dashboards. Coach and mentor peers in data warehousing concepts and the use of the tools utilized to analyze data, design the warehouse models, and populate the warehouse. Assists with the development and maintenance of methods and practices documentation. Samprasoft