Snowflake Data Warehouse Analyst

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.

Job Duties:

• Strong Data Integration and Data Warehousing experience with Snowflake Data Cloud and Informatica IICS Cloud Data Integration tools.
• Strong Experience with Data Integration tasks like extraction, transformation, and load (ETL or ELT) tasks
• Participates in strategic planning for the Snowflake enterprise data warehouse/data-lake-house design and development.
• Analyzes transactional data stores and develops data warehouse models to optimize the warehouse for reporting and analytics.
• Coaches and mentors’ peers in data warehousing concepts and the tools utilized to analyze data, design the warehouse models, and populate the warehouse.
• Prototypes, builds, and tests Power BI and Tableau reports and dashboards.
• Assists with the development and maintenance of methods and practices documentation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of IT work experience utilizing data management tools, business intelligence tools, and data warehousing.
• Extensive experience with Informatica IICS Cloud Data Integration tools and Snowflake.

Job Specific Skills:

• Experience designing data models for Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau.
• Experience with Informatica on-premises products like PowerCenter and Data Quality.
• Experience with ELT with Change Data Capture solutions like PowerExchange.
• Experience with IBM Mainframes COBOL, JCL, and DB2 analysis.
• Experience with IICS Cloud Administration and Snowflake Data Cloud Administration.
• Ensures data warehouse metadata is collected and maintained.
• Experience with Informatica IICS Cloud Performance Tuning
• Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud Performance Tuning
• Experience with Data Governance products, like EDC, Axon, and CDGC