Data Warehouse Developer - 5.0 Madison, WI

The candidate will be responsible for assisting in ETL design, development, testing, maintenance, metadata, and implementation of data warehouse initiatives. Understand user requirements and implement solutions that ensure requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. Develop ETL mapping specifications for loading information into the data warehouse and for ensuring reliability of information loaded. Seek continuous improvement in performance & tuning of data warehouse and ensure security of data. Works with other IT technical teams and Business users to understand requirements and recommend & implement solutions. Closely supervised with some latitude for independent judgment. Typically requires up to three years of experience or equivalent education.

Skills and Experiences :

• Moderate experience in data warehousing process design, development, performance & tuning using the Informatica data warehousing tool suite
• Developing skills in the architecture of data warehouse and data integration strategies and solutions
• Knowledge in data warehouse best practice standards
• Knowledge in relational data base technologies; e.g. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server
• Moderate skills working with relational and dimensional data models
• Moderate skills working with slowly changing dimensions
• Strong data management and data analysis using SQL
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation of meetings with customers and technical staff
• Knowledge and skills in the project development life cycle process (i.e., planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, support)
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in requirements gathering
• Effective interpersonal relations skills, ability to effectively collaborate with others and work as part of a team
• Skills in navigating a large organization in order to accomplish results
• Ability to initiate and follow through on complex projects of both short and long term duration
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently, assume responsibility for job development and training, researching and resolving questions and problems, requesting supervisor input and keeping supervisor informed
• Proficiency with MS Office suite, MS Visio, and MS Outlook.

Must Have :

Respond to customer requests (verbally and in writing)

Expertise in implementation of large and complicated models and processes in extensive, multi-function education and government environments.

Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation

General Competencies

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Excellent organization, analytical, and communication skills

Information Technology- Applications

Ability to develop and implement quality assurance processes and procedures including test / use cases

Ability to navigate and query a relational database (Oracle) to both develop reports and to perform data validation using common tools including SQL / PLSQL.

Experience in data warehouse design and development

Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse

Data Warehouse performance tuning

Experience in extract, transform, and load coding using Informatica

Develop design specifications

Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse and business intelligence lifecycle methodology

Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals

Business Objects or other BI tools

Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Procedures

Identify defects

Nice to Have :

Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports to manage inventory, analyze cost, and maximize return on investment of monetary and human resources.

General Competencies

Familiarity with state privacy statutes

Information Technology-Databases

Data analysis

DB2

Dashboarding / Business Objects Xcelsius

In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each Phase of Development