Data Warehouse Developer - WMadison 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 multifunction education and government environments.
Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation
General Competencies
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent organization analytical and communication skills
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
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
Data analysis
DB2
Information TechnologyLanguages/Tools
Dashboarding/Business Objects Xcelsius
InDepth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each Phase of Development.