Teradata Developer

Position: Data Warehouse (Teradata & Cognos) Developer

Location - New Brunswick, NJ

Start date: 12/5/2013

Rate: $50/hr(Negotiable)

Requirements:

·                     Develop and Analyze Teradata Database modules for GFS FP&A project in a multi-tiered architecture across different environments.

·                     Responsible for analysis and detailed technical design document for FP&A Data Warehouse.

·                     Collaborate with cross functional teams within J&J including Engineering & Operations toward successful deployment of deliverables.

·                     Provide technical support required to resolve complex issues to ensure the on-time delivery of solutions that meet customer expectations.

·                     Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to react quickly to changing requirements due to product limitation or driven by enterprise/management need

·                     Works to define and characterize complex technology or process problems and/or develops new solutions, yet works independently to drive technical problems to a solution.

·                     Provide best practices and processes for day to day operations, performance analysis, tuning of Data Warehouse solutions in operational phase.

·                     Develop and foster a collaborative working relationship with the Business Intelligence and ETL teams, consultants, and project managers to develop processes, documentation and solutions related to deployments.

Required Competencies:

·                     The candidate should possess strong data analytical skills

·                     Progressive and varied experience in SDLC (software development life cycle) for Data Warehouse applications on Teradata.

·                     Extensive experience in development and deployment of Data Warehouse solutions

·                     Proficient in data warehousing techniques for data cleaning, Slowly Changing Dimension phenomenon, surrogate key assignment and CDC (change data capture), Audit table, Error Handling Techniques for ETL process

·                     Strong understanding of Data Warehouse concepts and well versed with Bill Inmon's 3NF modeling and Ralph Kimball's Dimensional modeling, with Erwin skills.

·                     Experience in physical modeling with knowledge to use Primary, Secondary, PPI and Join Index

·                     Experience with MLoad, BTeq ,  FastExport and FastLoad to design and develop dataflow paths for loading transforming and maintaining Data Warehouse

·                     Experience with Windows 7, IE 8, Vista, XP, Office 2007/2010

·                     Experience with Data and Issue analysis using SQL

·                     Solid verbal and written communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to team, managers and non-technical audiences

Nice to Have Skills:

•               Experience with Teradata 14.0

•               Experience in integration with Cognos BI 10 and later version

•               Experience with Informatica 9.0 or above

•               Experience within HealthCare/Pharmaceutical industry

Location is Atlanta, GA or Alpharetta, GA (might need to shuttle between locations as needed by project).

Duration:   Full time

Rate:  salary 85k