Senior Data Engineer Informatica Cloud Engineer

Senior Operations & Data Engineer (Informatica Specialist) / Cloud Engineer

Position Objective

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a highly specialized Senior Operations and Data Engineer to serve as the primary administrator and technical lead for our Informatica ecosystem. This role is a hybrid of platform operations and high-level data engineering, ensuring that sensitive state and federal data is managed within a secure, high-uptime, and cost-effective environment.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Operations & Administration

• Informatica Mastery: Act as the lead administrator for Informatica environments; manage platform uptime, vendor escalations, and patch/versioning communications.
• Environment Provisioning: Configure Informatica, including complex RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and security permissions.
• Governance & CI/CD: Implement and manage DataOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments for the broader implementation team.
• Financial Stewardship: Configure cost-management features such as Informatica resource monitors, budgets, and consumption tracking; consult on chargeback models.
• Support business processes of data governance and management.

Data Engineering & Transformation

• Pipeline Architecture and Metadata Ingestion: Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from transactional systems (Line of Business) into the analytical Snowflake environment or to ingest metadata and data from Secure Agents into Informatica.
• Data Lineage Management: Configure and manage data lineage maps.
• Data Quality Profile Management: Design and deploy automated data cleansing and quality-check policies and processes.
• Performance Engineering: Optimize data flows for specific latency and frequency requirements while maintaining credit efficiency.

Primary Deliverables

• Architectural Contributions: Design reviews, Architectural Plans, and Scope Documents.
• Deployment Assets: New account/environment deployments, security schemas, and permission assignments.
• Engineering Assets: Comprehensive ETL Pipeline Design Documents, Mapping Documents, and production-ready Pipelines, data quality profile scores.
• Product Backlog & Support Ticket Management; performance reports.
• Weekly Status Reports.

Location & Work Arrangement

While OIT supports telecommuting / remote work, it is expected that the contractor performs the work within the State of Colorado and preferably in the Denver Metropolitan Area. There will be occasions where the contractor will have to collaborate with their colleagues and attend in-person meetings in one of the State offices.

Key skills/competency

• Informatica Administration
• Data Engineering
• Cloud Engineering
• ETL/ELT Pipelines
• Data Lineage
• Data Quality
• CI/CD
• RBAC
• Performance Optimization
• Snowflake