Informatica ETL Expertise and Migration Skills
Informatica ETL Expertise and Migration Skills
Professional Summary:
Over 13 years of extensive experience with Informatica Power Centre in all phases of Analysis, Design,
Development, Implementation, and support of Data Warehousing applications using IICS, Informatica
Power Center 10.x/9.x/8.x/7.x.
Extensively Worked on Data warehousing marts and ODS with emphasis on ETL and life cycle development
including requirement analysis, design, development, and implementation.
Extensive experience in Informatica Data Integration Tools - Such as Repository Manager, Designer,
Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, and Scheduled workflows using Workflow Manager.
Extensively worked with Informatica mapping variables, mapping parameters, and parameter files.
Experience in several facts of implementations including Data Profiling, Data extraction, Data validation,
Data Cleansing, Data Load, Data Migration, and Trust Score validation.
Extensive experience in understanding data models, data taxonomy, and a deep appreciation of data
standards and data quality.
Experience in working with business analysts to identify and understand requirements in order to create
Technical Design Documents.
Developed ETL mappings using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) and Informatica Power canter
transformations using aggregator, look-up, joiner, filter, sequence generator, normalizer, sorter, router, in
Data Integration.
Created processes that conduct service calls through APls that interface with 3rd party applications in IICS.
Managed and configured lICS administration as per the requirement
Created IICS Data Synchronization Jobs to load data to Snowflake.
Optimized the performance of IICS's applications through techniques such as code refactoring, caching, and
asynchronous processing, ensuring scalability and responsiveness to handle increasing user loads
and data volumes
Used Integration Templates to create reusable mappings in [Link] understanding of the Data
Warehousing SDLC and architecture of ETL, reporting and BI tools.
Expertise Informatica B2B Data Transformation, DT and DX, pre-built transformations for most versions of
industry-standard messages including the following EDI standards and derivatives.
Experience working with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) for data cleansing, data matching and data
conversion.
Experienced in creating IDQ mappings using Consolidation, Key Generator, Match, Merge, Exceptional,
Labeller, Standardizer, and Address Validator transformations with Informatica Developer and migrated to
Informatica Power Center.
Extensive knowledge in optimizing techniques such as concurrent caching, Auto memory calculations,
partitioning and using push down optimization.
Solid understanding on Hadoop Hive and HBase implementation and have Knowledge on scheduling tools
such as oozie, AutoSys.
Experienced using Cloud Data Integration (CDI), using Cloud Integration Hub (CIH), and using in Cloud
Application Integration (CAI) of Informatica IICS components/products to integrate and design using multiple
applications and working experience of installation /Upgrading Informatica DEI and ED.
Proficient in the Integration of various data sources with multiple relational databases like Oracle12c
/Oracle11g, MS SQL Server, DB2, XML files, and Flat Files into the staging area, Data Warehouse, and Data
Mart. Strong experience with star and snowflake schema, dimensional data modeling, facts, and
dimensional and slowly changing dimensions.
Experience in AWS S3, RDS (MySQL) and Redshift cluster configuration. Informatica Cloud Data Integration
mapping and task flows to exact and load data between on-premises, AWS RDS, Amazon S3, Redshift, Azure
SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure Data Lake Store.
Experienced in executing complex queries using stored procedures, Triggers, Cursors, and defined Functions
using T-SQL.
Created ICRT and IICS jobs using Snowflake Cloud Connector V2 and REST and Soap and other APIs. V2
connector to send and receive data from third-party vendor applications.
Experience in IICS Application Integration components like Processes, Service Connectors, and Process
Objects.
Implemented and managed data testing processes using QuerySurge, ensuring data accuracy and quality
across multiple projects.
Expertise in implementing Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) Type 1 and Type 2 for initial and history load
using Informatica.
Extensively designed and implemented the Kimball design methodology and other Datawerehouse concepts
and other DATA models.
Worked on Informatica CDC (Change Data Capture) Implementation experience of DATA EXCHANGE AND
DATA TRANSFORMATION.
Experience in debugging mappings, identified bugs in existing mappings by analyzing the data flow and
evaluating transformations.
Expertise in RDBMS, database Normalization, and Denormalization concepts and principles.
Developed shell scripts for invoking Informatica workflows and for running batch processes.
Experience in designing the architecture for extract, transformation, load environment, and development of
mapping and process using Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica IICS
Experienced in Performance Tuning at Mapping, Session, and database levels, tuning mappings, and Pipeline
Partitioning to speed up data processing.
Extensive experience in developing Stored Procedures, Functions, Views and Triggers, and Complex SQL
queries using SQL Server, T-SQL, and Oracle PL/SQL.
Experienced in using different scheduling tools - Control- M, Tidal, Auto Sys, and Maestro/TWS & Cron Job.
Excellent analytical skills in understanding the client’s organizational structure.
Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong technical background and result-oriented team player with
excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Technical Skills:-
ETL Tools Informatica Power Center 10.x/9.x/8.x, IICS, Informatica Cloud, IICS Developer, Cloud
Application Integration, Talend, Cloud Data Integration, ENTERPRISE DATA
CATALOG(EDC)Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality Tool (IDQ), Informatica
Cloud. AWS
Database Oracle 12c,Oracle 9i/10g/11g,SSIS,SQL Server SQL Server 2014/2008/2005 ,
Snowflake ,and Teradata 14.0,SAP, Query Surge
DataModelling Tools Erwin 4.1, TOAD, MS Visio, SQL *Loader, Star and Snow Fake Schema.
Scheduling Tools TWS, Auto Sys, Maestro, Cron Tab, Control – M, Informatica Scheduler, Tidal
Languages SQL, T-SQL ,PL/SQL, C, C++
Scripting Languages UNIX Shell Scripting, Korn Shell, Bash shell scripting. Python
Operating Systems Windows, MSDOS, Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris
Reporting Tools OBIEE, CLICK VIEW, COGNOS Report Studio, IBM Cognos 11.0 , Tableau
Centene,Saint Louis, MO Jun 2022 – Till date
Sr. Lead Informatica IICS ETL Developer/ DATA Engineer
Project: Encounters.
Encounter data Capturing the previous member claim interaction of Digital and paper Medicare and
Medicaid, tracking the members in MCO(such as well-care)with Provider information. Encounter Data
Capture’s used to develop cost profiles for particular group of claims and also make certain business
Intelligence decisions about provide the cost /payment adjustment incentives based on Incentive
Compensative Management data to make the Decision’s and provide states and CMS visibility into service
provided to Members and Healthcare Effectiveness Data & Information Set/HEDIS calculation price.
Project: EDI
Processing the 837,277, and 999 files and extracting the data into EDI HTR DB.
Responsibilities:
Developed and Created ETL and Data warehouse standards documents-Naming Standards, ETL Standards,
ETL methodologies and strategies, standard input file formats, data cleansing and pre-processing strategies.
Created and Developed the Source and Target transformation Logic, Source data column information and
target data column information.
Designed, developed, and implemented ETL processes using Informatica PowerCenter and IICS Data
Integration.
Created and managed IICS connections using various cloud connectors through the IICS Administrator.
Extracted flat files from S3 buckets and loaded them into Snowflake using IICS Data Integration Services.
Implemented ETL processes with FULL push-down optimization in IICS for efficient data transfer from
Staging to ODS at scale.
Developed IICS Informatica Cloud mappings to extract data from Salesforce (SFDC) and created Workflow
tasks for data integration.
Maintained custom-built queries to load dimensions and facts in IICS.
Used Snowflake connector in IICS for loading data into Snowflake for analytics and reporting purposes.
Implemented key range partitioning and managed file loads with various file formats and options in IICS.
Managed migration activities for Informatica tools, including upgrades from Informatica 9.5 to 10.2 and 10.2
to 10.5.
Migrated data for reporting and reference data availability using tools such as Tidal, Oracle, VB, Teradata,
UNIX, and SSIS.
Developed ETL processes in AWS Glue to migrate campaign data from sources like S3, ORC/Parquet/Text
Files into AWS Redshift.
Performed data extraction, aggregation, and consolidation of Adobe data within AWS Glue using PySpark.
Collaborated with legal and compliance teams to ensure alignment with regulations such as GDPR and
HIPAA.
Utilized data governance tools like Collibra and Informatica Axon to automate data governance processes
and maintain a centralized repository of data policies and metadata.
Conducted training sessions on data governance to raise awareness among employees regarding data
quality and security.
Provided analysis, system/architectural design, project planning, and coding for data integration projects.
Worked on IICS Task monitoring and administrator concepts, including the creation and management of IICS
connections, mapping configuration tasks, and taskflows.
Coordinated with the production team for code migration from IICS UAT to IICS Production.
Developed components and implemented code using Python for data retrieval and manipulation.
Performed extensive testing and wrote SQL queries to ensure accurate data loading and transformation.
Created Salesforce connections and implemented Salesforce business processes using Informatica IICS Data
Integration.
Established a data movement control system to ensure correct loading of data between Salesforce and
Oracle tables through IICS.
Designed the ETL mappings between sources to operational staging targets, then to the data warehouse
using Power center Designer.
Used Informatica Power Center 10.4 to create mappings, sessions, and workflows for populating the data
into dimension, fact and lookup tables simultaneously from different source systems (SQL Server, Oracle,
Flat files) and Pushing the compressed and encrypted xml files and flat files generated to the external
vendor using MFT.
Worked extensively with Enterprise architects and Project Managers and Client/Business User’s in
requirement gathering, analysis and project coordination.
Implemented and managed data testing processes using QuerySurge, ensuring data accuracy and quality
across multiple projects.
Developed Data Integration Platform components/processes using Informatica Cloud Platform, Azure SQL
Datawarehouse Azure DataLake store, and Azure Blob Storage Technologies.
Extensively used Parameters(Input and IN/OUT Parameters), Expression Macros and Source Partitioning
Partitions.
Implemented developed Datawere house using the Kimball design methodology.
Extensively Used Push Down Optimization to Optimize processing and use limitless power of Azure
Synapse(sqlDW)
Extracted data from Snowflake instance using Snowflake connector in IICS for a separate project to support
data analytics and insight use case for EDI claim team.
Created PYTHON scripts which will used to start and stop cloud Tasks (the scripts use Informatica Cloud API
calls).Created PYTHON scripts to create on demand Cloud Mapping Tasks using Informatica REST API.
Analysed existing ETL Data warehouse process and ERP/NON-ERP Applications interface and created design
specification based on new target Cloud Data warehouse(Azure Synapse) & Data Lake Store.
Created IICS connection using various cloud connector’s in IICS administrator.
Installed and configured windows secure agent register with IICS org.
Extensively used performance Tuning while extracting data into Azure Synapse using IICS.
Extensively used cloud transformations-Aggregator, Expression, Filter,Lookup(connected and Unconnected)
Developed Cloud integration parameterized mapping templates (DB, and table object parameterization) for
stage, Dimension(SCD1 type 1,2,3,,CDC and Incremental Load ) and Fact load processes.
Developed complex Informatica Cloud Taskflows(Parallel) with multiple mapping tasks and taskflows
Developed Mass Ingestion tasks to Ingest large datasets from on-prem to Azure Data lake Store-File
Ingestion
Designed Data Integration Audit framework in Azure Sql Dw to track data loads, data platform workload
management and produce automated reports.
Environment: IICS, Informatica Power Center 10.5, 10.2, 9.5, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD,
Teradata, Flat files, Facets, XML, AWS Glue, Snowflake, Salesforce, SQL Server 2012R2, Azure, Operational
Data warehouse, Green plum, Jira, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, SVN, Kafka, Tidal. , Tableau. Sybase
Responsibilities:
Worked extensively on Informatica Power Center tool - Source Analyzer, Data Warehousing designer,
Mapping & Mapplet Designer and Transformation Designer. Developed Informatica mappings and also in
tuning of mappings for better performance.
Used Informatica Power Center 10.1 to create mappings, sessions and workflows for populating the data
into dimension, fact and lookup tables simultaneously from different source systems (SQL Server, Oracle,
Flat files).
Experienced in Hadoop and good understanding on Hive and HBase implementation. Knowledge on
scheduling tools such as oozie, Autosys.
Develop detailed specifications, including data conversion, interfaces, and custom reporting to ensure
business requirements are met.
Deployed Informatica PowerCenter mapping to Informatica Cloud mapping. Implemented source qualifier,
Aggregator, Lookup, Filter, Sequence generator, Router, Update strategy in Mappings.
Prepared Unit Test Cases and mentoring other developers.
Used various add on-connectors in Informatica cloud like XML, XML Target, Excel.
Developed integrations like flatfile to service now XML to JSON
Run the Informatica cloud Data Integration tasks in application integration using service steps
Run the data integration task in application integration.
Spearheaded the upgrade and migration of Informatica PowerCenter from version 8.1.1 to 10.5, including
backup, installation, configuration, and verification of upgraded repositories.
Provided detailed hardware specifications for building virtual servers for various Informatica versions,
ensuring optimal performance and compatibility.
Installed and configured PowerCenter components, clients, and ODBC drivers on Windows 2019 and 2022
servers.
Worked on IICS concepts relating to data integration, Monitor, Administrator, deployments,
permissions,schedules.
Worked on Azure Sql Data Warehouse integration with IICS.
Worked on iIICS Data integration console to create mapping templates to bring data into staging layer from
different source systems like Sql Server, Oracle, Teradata, Salesforce, Flat Files, Excel Files, Cdc
Provide Real-time integration E2E solution using APIs and various DBs with IICS.
Design and Develop ETL Processes in AWS Glue to migrate Campaign data from external sources like S3,
ORC/Parquet/Text Files into AWS Redshift.
Performance tuning - Using the map cache properties, Multi-threading, and parallel components for better
performance in case of huge source data. Tuning the SQL source queries to restrict unwanted data in ETL
process.
Created Kafka topic to process JSON files and used microservices to request payloads.
Worked on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage,
cloud SQL stack driver monitoring, and cloud deployment manager
Conducted thorough testing of new software versions and repositories, validating system functionality and
data integrity.
Led the migration of repositories from production to test environments, including the incorporation of
sequence IDs and verification of migrated repositories.
Delivered training and support to the City’s Informatica administrators and developers, enhancing their
proficiency in ETL processes and Informatica PowerCenter.
Developed hardware specs to build virtual servers for software.
Installed PowerCenter 10.5 Components Client and ODBC on new Windows 2019 (2022) server and Installed
PowerCenter 10.5 Repository server on new Windows 2019 (2022) server.
Configure PowerCenter 10.5 Informatica server on new Windows 2019 (2022) server.
Upgrade the Repository on the new Windows 2019 (2022) server.
Verify the upgraded Repository. Run a Test with new software version and new repository.
Incorporate all current sequence ids from Production into Test Repository
Migrate the Repository from Production to Test. Connecting to New Repository Database.
Verify the Migrated Repository. Uninstall old Informatica software new Windows 2019 (2022) server.
Good Exposure on connectors to connect the third-party applications using service connector with the help
of API’s. Worked on the API’s source Data
Involved in gathering and analysis business requirement and writing requirement specification documents
and identified data sources and targets.
Used different sources like API’s, Json files, SQl server tables, snowflake, Workday, SAP in informatica cloud
IICS integrations.
Designed and implemented a data reporting solution for.
Extracted data from Snowflake to push the data into Azure warehouse instance to support reporting
requirements.
Worked on the ETL jobs to migrate data from on premise to cloud snowflake by generating JSON and CSV
files to support Catalog API integration.
Communicated with business customers to discuss the issues and requirements.
Extensive knowledge in designing and developing the complex Informatica mappings by making use of Java
transformation, Connected and Unconnected Lookup transformation, Update transformation, router
transformation, expression transformation, SQL Transformation, Source Qualifier transformation.
Used ETL tools Informatica power center to extract data from source systems, cleanse Transform, and Load
data into XML and Flat files.
Worked with control-m tool to automate the batch process scheduling.
Developed ETL programs using Informatica and Talend to implement the business [Link]
Python scripts to parse XML documents as well as JSON based REST Web services and load the data in
database.
Profiling Python code for optimization and memory management and implementing multithreading
functionality.
Experience in Dimensional Modelling in creating various data marts like Star and Snowflake Schema,
Identifying Facts and Dimensions (SCD Type I, SCD Type II), Physical and logical data modelling
Designed workflows with many sessions with decision, assignment task, event wait, and event raise tasks,
used Informatica scheduler to schedule jobs.
Worked with the Quality Assurance team to build the test cases to perform unit, Integration, functional, and
performance Testing.
Developing Informatica Cloud (IICS) mappings and tasks, performing the validations of test cases.
Effectively using IICS Data integration console to create mapping templates to bring data into Snowflake
Database from Oracle, Flat Files.
Experience working with IICS transformations like Expression, joiner, union, lookup, sorter, filter, normalizer
and various concepts like smart match fields, renaming bulk fields and more.
Environment: Informatica Power Center, Oracle, PL/SQL, Linux Sun Solaris, UNIX Shell Scripting, Java,
DB2, Mainframe, WinscpSQL, Oracle,AWS, AWS Glue, Talend, GCP,Azure, Snowflake, Kafka,
Microservices, Control-m.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8x, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows, UNIX, UNIX Shell Script.