Informatica Specialist
REMOTE (Occasionally travel to Denver to meet team)
12 Months
 
** While team supports telecommuting / remote work, it is expected that the contractor performs the work within the State of Colorado and preferably in the Denver Metropolitan Area; there will be occasions where the contractor will have to collaborate with their colleagues and attend in-person meetings in one of the State offices**
 
Position Objective: The team is seeking a highly specialized Senior Operations and Data Engineer to serve as the primary administrator and technical lead for our Informatica ecosystem. This role is a hybrid of platform operations and high-level data engineering, ensuring that sensitive state and federal data is managed within a secure, high-uptime, and cost-effective environment.
Preferred Qualifications
To be considered for this role, candidates should provide proof of the following:

• Active Informatica Certification: (e.g., Informatica Certified Professional in Cloud Data Integration)
• Background Clearance Readiness: Absolute eligibility to pass OIT, FTI (Federal Tax Information), and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) background checks.

Key Responsibilities
Platform Operations & Administration

• Informatica Mastery: Act as the lead administrator for Informatica environments; manage platform uptime, vendor escalations, and patch/versioning communications.
• Environment Provisioning: Configure Informatica, including complex RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and security permissions.
• Governance & CI/CD: Implement and manage DataOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments for the broader implementation team.
• Financial Stewardship: Configure cost-management features such as Informatica resource monitors, budgets, and consumption tracking; consult on chargeback models.
• Support business processes of data governance and management

Data Engineering & Transformation

• Pipeline Architecture and Metadata Ingestion: Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from transactional systems (Line of Business) into the analytical Snowflake environment or to ingest metadata and data from Secure Agents into Informatica
• Data Lineage Management: Configure and manage data lineage maps
• Data Quality Profile Management: Design and deploy automated data cleansing and quality-check policies and processes.
• Performance Engineering: Optimize data flows for specific latency and frequency requirements while maintaining credit efficiency.

Primary Deliverables

• Architectural Contributions: Design reviews, Architectural Plans, and Scope Documents.
• Deployment Assets: New account/environment deployments, security schemas, and permission assignments.
• Engineering Assets: Comprehensive ETL Pipeline Design Documents, Mapping Documents, and production-ready Pipelines, data quality profile scores
• Product Backlog & Support Ticket Management: performance reports
• Weekly Status Reports

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.