Informatica PowerCenter IDMC Migration Lead
Cincinnati, OH - USA
Job Summary
Job Description:
Experience
12-18 years in Informatica ETL delivery with strong client facing leadership experience
Role Summary
- The Onshore Lead will be responsible for technical and delivery leadership of the PowerCenter Rationalization and Assessment program from an onshore position.
- The role acts as the primary client facing technical authority responsible for driving solution clarity guiding offshore teams managing risks and ensuring highconfidence rationalization outputs that support future modernization or IDMC migration
- This role bridges client stakeholders project management and offshore delivery teams with a strong focus on governance validation and decision support
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Functional Leadership
- Provide overall technical leadership for PowerCenter rationalization and assessment activities
- Guide teams on
- Inventory analysis of PowerCenter mappings workflows sessions and jobs
- Rationalization and deprecation approach
- Complexity classification and modernization readiness assessment
- Review and validate key deliverables including
- Rationalized inventory
- Deprecation candidate lists
- Environment reconciliation results
- Testing and validation summaries
Client Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary onshore interface for client technical and business stakeholders
- Lead client discussions on
- Rationalization findings
- Risk areas and assumptions
- Deprecation recommendations and approvals
- Coordinate with client SMEs for
- Functional clarifications
- Batch cycle understanding
- Dependency confirmations
- Support executivelevel walkthroughs and readouts
- Offshore Coordination Delivery Oversight
- Provide direction and clarity to offshore ETL engineers data analysts and testers
- Review offshore outputs for
- Accuracy
- Consistency
- Adherence to agreed methodology
- Ensure common understanding of standards templates and validation criteria
- Resolve technical and functional ambiguities raised by offshore teams
Risk Quality Governance
- Identify and manage technical and execution risks especially related to
- Production stability
- Incorrect deprecation decisions
- Environment inconsistencies
- Enforce zerodisruption principles for production systems
- Ensure that all recommendations are evidencebased and defensible
- Align with the Project Manager on RAID dependencies and decision tracking
Planning Estimation Support
- Provide inputs to
- Complexity scoring
- Migration effort estimation
- Modernization roadmap planning
- Ensure that rationalization outputs are usable for downstream
- IDMC migration planning
- Conversion feasibility assessment
Required Skills Expertise
- Technical Expertise
- Deep handson experience with Informatica PowerCenter
- Strong knowledge of
- ETL design patterns
- Batch scheduling and dependencies
- SQLintensive transformations and overrides
- Solid understanding of data warehouse environments and largescale ETL ecosystems
Leadership Communication
- Strong clientfacing communication and facilitation skills
- Ability to explain complex technical findings in clear businessfriendly language
- Proven experience leading distributed onshoreoffshore teams
- Strong decisionmaking and conflictresolution skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with PowerCenter rationalization or modernization programs
- Exposure to IDMC Cloud Data Integration
- Background in insurance or financial services data platforms
Scope Clarification Important - This is not a development or migration execution role
- Primary focus is on
- Assessment
- Rationalization
- Validation
- Readiness for modernization
- Success is measured by
- Quality and accuracy of rationalization outcomes
- Timely client signoffs
- Absence of production impact