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