Informatica MDM Architect

10+ years of IT experience with a minimum of 8 years of Enterprise Information Management Solutions (MDM, Data Integration, Data Migration's and Datamodelling).

Must have hands on ETL experience and have executed 2-3 large MDM engagements (at least 1 Informatica MDM) from Inception to Production as a Technology Lead/Architect. Must be comfortable in client facing roles and working as part of multi-capability enterprise solutions teams, in addition to be able to work independently.

The ideal candidate has been in the MDM/ETL/Data Quality domain (preferably customer MDM) for the majority of their career. Probably starting as an Informatica developer/designer and then moving onto an Architect position.

- Understand Business requirements and produce Solution Design artefacts with required functions, interfaces and detailed technical architecture.
- Enable good relationships with clients and collaborate well with multi-location teams.
- Carry out installation of Informatica in conjunction with product support team.
- Develop best practices, coding standards, frameworks and patterns in Informatica for quality development
- Act as technical SME for Informatica for implementation projects.
- Perform code review activity for complex modules and perform hands-on code development if required in Informatica and ETL tools.
- Source data analysis and proactively highlight the Data Quality issues and recommend business rules.
- Develop Non-functional designs and performance best practices for Informatica.
- Create and Manage Data Models (Conceptual, Logical and Physical)
- Carry out reviews of Low Level Design artefacts
- Carry out product capability assessments (for MDM technology and products) and provide alternative viable solutions if so required by our clients
- Evaluate any new Change Requests on an engagement and by able to drive the production of change impact and estimates
- Provide support to Offsite Delivery Teams for planning and tracking deliverables
- Be involved in the full life cycle of solution implementation phase and ensure deliverables are with good quality
- Drive Show & Tell sessions for client
- Educational qualification: BSc/MSc degree in Engineering/Computer Science disciplines.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate at all levels within an organisation. This is a Client Facing Role.
- Possess prior experience in a Lead Technical Architect capacity in a large MDM implementation developed from Offshore/Offsite delivery centres:

o MDM Roadmap and Strategy

o Experience in designing MDM Solution Designs, data models, ETL using Informatica

o Have demonstrated knowledge of data population techniques (ETL/ELT) for target structures and hands-on Datamodelling skills (1-3NF data models).

- Extensive, demonstrable, hands-on experience of two of the following technologies
- Oracle 11g RDBMS - RAC Experience preferred.
- Informatica
- Informatica IDQ
- Data Integration toolsets such as Informatica, Talend, Data Stage etc
- Have strong collaboration, communication and influencing skills
- Consulting experience with a large multi-national is a plus
- Prior experience with DW Industry specific Models, developing solution frameworks, productivity enhancements, and performance tuning frameworks is a plus.
- Ability to work throughout UK mandatory - ability to work in EUROPE a definite advantage