Informatica MDM Architect

Kiran Bala
Contact no: 651 243 4535
Email: [email protected]

SUMMARY:

 14+ years of experience in Informatica MDM, Informatica PowerCenter, IDQ, Oracle as an

Informatica, Informatica MDM and ETL Developer.
 Experience working on Informatica MDM to design, develop, test and review & optimize
Informatica MDM (Siperian).
 Expertise in creating Mappings, Trust and Validation rules, Match Path, Match Column,
Match rules,
 Merge properties and Batch Group creation.
 Experience in creation and maintenance of entity objects, hierarchies, entity types,
relationship objects
 Relationship types using Hierarchy tool to enable Hierarchy Manager (HM) in MDM HUB
implementation.
 Hands on experience in design and configuration of landing tables, staging tables, base
objects, hierarchies, foreign - key relationships, lookups, query groups, queries/custom
queries and packages.
 Designed, Installed, Configured core Informatica/Siperian MDM Hub components such as
Informatica MDM Hub Console, Hub Store, Hub Server, Cleanse Match Server, Cleanse
Adapter, Data Modeling.
 Worked with Sif API to interact with real time applications.
 Solid expertise in Data Extraction, Data Migration, Data Transformation and Data Loading
using ETL process in Informatica Power Center 9.x/8.x/7.x.
 Experience in designing Reusable Transformations in Informatica such as Joiner, Sorter,
Aggregator, Expression, Lookup, Router, Filter, Update Strategy, Sequence Generator,
Normalizer and Rank) and Mappings using Informatica Designer and processing tasks using
Workflow Manager to move data from multiple sources into targets.
 Worked on Data Profiling using IDE-Informatica Data Explorer and IDQ-Informatica Data
Quality to examine different patterns of source data. Proficient in developing Informatica
IDQ transformations like Parser, Classifier, Standardizer and Decision.
 Experience in designing and developing Informatica mappings for data loads that include
Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Unconnected Lookup, Connected Lookup, Filter, Router,
Update Strategy etc.
 Strong SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL programming skills in Oracle 12c/11g/10g, SQL Server
2012/2008/2000, Teradata 14/13/12 and DB2 databases. Proficient in writing Packages,
Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Indexes and query optimization.
 Experience in integration of various data sources like Oracle, SQL server and MS access, flat
files, and XML files.
  Experience in debugging, error handling and performance tuning of sources, targets,
mappings and sessions with the help of error logs generated by Informatica server.
 Experience in Agile, Waterfall and UML Methodologies.
 Good Exposure to development, testing, debugging, implementation, documentation and
production support.
 Extensive experience in implementation of Data Cleanup procedures, Transformations,
Scripts and Execution of Test Plans for loading the data into the targets.
 Experience in UNIX shell and batch scripting, Perl, FTP, SFTP and file management in various
UNIX/Windows environments.
 Performed unit testing at various levels of the ETL.
 Experience in production support to resolve critical issues and mingle with teams to ensure
successful resolution of the reported incident.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, 11g/12c SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2005
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, UML 2.0, Unix
ETL Tool: Informatica Power Center 10.x/9.x/8.x (Designer, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor,
Repository manager and Informatica Server)
MDM Packages: Informatica MDM Multi Domain Edition 10.0, 9.7.1, 9.5, 9.1. Informatica Data Director
(IDD) 10.0, 9.7, 9.5. Informatica Data Quality(IDQ) 10.0, 9.6, DDM 9.6
RDBMS: Oracle 12c/11g/10g/ 9i (SQL/PLSQL)
Tools and Utilities: TOAD 10.1, Text pad, Word Pad, SQL Developer 4.0.3
Modeling Tools: Erwin 4.0 data modeler, ER studio 7.5, MS Visio 2007
Environment: Windows 7/XP/2000, Unix, Windows Server 2003, 2008/Linux
Packages: MS Office (MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word), Visual Studio, Java Eclipse
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Norton Healthcare Louisville, KY (2018-present)
Informatica MDM Architect
Responsibilities:

 Worked with ETL Developers in creating External Batches to execute mappings, Mapplets
using Informatica workflow designer to integrate Shire’s data from varied sources like
Oracle, DB2, flat files and SQL databases and loaded into landing tables of Informatica MDM
Hub.
 Designed and created BO, staging tables, mappings, transformations as per business
requirements.
 Created mappings to perform the tasks such as cleansing the data and populate that into
staging tables.
 Used Metadata manager for validating, promoting, importing and exporting repositories
from development environment to testing environment.
  Involved with Data Steward Team for designing, documenting and configuring Informatica
Data Director for supporting management of MDM data.
 Identified Golden Record (BVT) for Customer Data by analyzing the data and duplicate
records coming from different source systems.
 Helped the testing team for data integrity and consistency.
 Defined and configured schema, staging tables, and landing tables, base objects foreign-key
Relationships, look up systems and tables, packages, query groups and queries/custom
queries.
 Defined the Trust and Validation rules and setting up the match/merge rule sets to get the
right master records
 Used Hierarchies tool, for configuring entity base objects, entity types, relationship base
objects, relationship types, profiles, put and display packages and used the entity types as
subject areas in IDD.
 Successfully implemented IDD using hierarchy configuration and created subject area
groups, subject areas, subject area child, IDD display packages in hub and search queries.
 Deployed new MDM Hub for portals in conjunction with user interface on IDD application.
 Defined the Trust and Validation rules and setting up the match/merge rule sets to get the
right master records.
 Configured match rule set property by enabling search by rules in MDM according to
Business Rules.
 Created mappings using Informatica Power center and loading data into pre-landing tables.
 Created Unit Test Case Document, Detailed Design Document, Supplementary Document
and Knowledge Transfer Document.
 High level review of SAM - discussed use of Roles, creation of users and assignment of user
to Role
 Finally, Created Data Validation document, Unit Test Case Document, Technical Design
Document, Informatica Migration Request Document and Knowledge Transfer Document.

Environment: Informatica MDM, Informatica Power Center 9.6, Oracle 11g/10g, Toad, JBoss 5.1.0,
Address Doctor 5, IDD, Informatica Data Quality IDQ 9.5.1, Windows server, Unix.

Huntington National Bank Columbus, (OH 2014-2018)

Informatica MDM Architect
Responsibilities:

 Teamed with business analysts to deduce the business requirements to produce effective
technology solutions.
 Worked with Data Steward Team for designing, documenting and configuring Informatica
Data Director for supporting management of MDM data.
 Conducting requirement gathering sessions, feasibility studies and organizing the software
requirements in a structured way.
 Involved in implementing the Land Process of loading the customer Data Set into
Informatica MDM from various source systems.
 Collaborated with the data modelers to perform mappings and organize the data using the
Erwin tool for data modeling.
 Experienced in creating and maintaining the entity objects, hierarchies, entity types,
relationship objects and relationship types using Hierarchy tool to enable Hierarchy
Manager (HM) in MDM HUB implementation and Informatica Data Director (IDD).
 Participated in the development and implementation of the MDM decommissioning project
using Informatica PowerCenter that reduced the cost and time of implementation and
development.
 Worked on data cleansing using the cleanse functions in Informatica MDM.
 Used Informatica ETL Power Center 9.6 for migrating data from various OLTP databases to
the data mart.
 Worked with different sources like Oracle, flat files, XML files, DB2, MS SQL Server
 Extracted data from Sales department to flat files and load the data to the target database
 Developed complex mappings using Informatica to load Dimension & Fact tables as per
STAR schema techniques.
 Extracted data from sources like fixed width and Delimited Flat files transformed the data
according the business requirement and then loaded into Target Data mart.
 Data Quality and Data integration in real-time using SIF API's.
 Defined Trust and validation rules before loading the data into the base tables
 Involved in SIF integration to develop xml code for external applications to perform search
match API calls against MDM Hub Data.
 Running the Stage Jobs, Load Jobs, Match and Merge Jobs using the Batch Viewer and
Automation Processes.
 Performed in creating tasks in the workflow manager and exported IDQ mappings and
executed them using the scheduling tools.
 Created IDD application and Subject Areas, Subject Area Groups, Deploy and test IDD
application, cleanse functions, utilizing timeline, export and import master data from flat
file.
 Worked on Tidal and Autosys scheduling tools depending on client’s preference to schedule
tasks
 Involved in preparing required Tech Specification Documents from the Business
requirements following Organization standard.
 Publishing Data using Message Queues to notify external applications on data change in
MDM Hub Base Objects.
 Constructed reusable objects like Mapplets and worklet transformations combined with
user-defined functions to use across multiple mappings.
 Executed jobs using ETL framework by setting up scripts and configuration files.
 Created deployment groups for production migration (mappings, workflows, parameter files
and UNIX scripts) and supported post production support during warranty.
 Practiced soft proofing on JDF enabled products to communicate between each other by
exchanging JDF files through hot folders.
 Worked on UNIX platform in creating a shell script to perform functions for updating the
profiles, sending mails and FTP files.
 Used scheduling tools to create new jobs and job dependencies are setup with different
Autosys cycles.
 Experienced in writing SQL queries for retrieving information from the database based on
the requirement.
 Experienced in partition creations and dimension additions.
  Successfully implemented IDD using hierarchy configuration and created subject area
groups, subject areas, subject area child, IDD display packages in hub and search queries for
searching the data for crops, materials and breeders in IDD data tab.
 Involved in the UAT testing of the Items Data Mart price files tool automation project.
 Performed testing on connections, scripts, workflows, mappings and other scheduled
activities.
 Worked with the offshore team and supervised on their development activity.
 Reviewed code and confirmed it was compatible to standard programming practice.
 Conducted Knowledge transfer sessions about the project to the team and managed the
project by providing reviews on it.

Environment: Informatica MDM, IDD, IDQ 9.7, Informatica 9.7, 9.6.0 & 9.5.1, (Repository Manger,
Designer, Workflow Monitor, Workflow Manager), Flat files, SQL, UNIX Scripting, Putty, Visio, Tidal,
Autosys.
KeyBank Akron, OH (2010-2014)
Informatica MDM Architect
Responsibilities:

 Perform Designs and Analysis on business systems applications, systems interfaces,

databases, reporting, or business intelligence systems
 Good exposure in Informatica MDM where data Cleansing, De-duping and Address
correction were performed.
 Involved in Informatica MDM hub configuration, IDQ cleanse function implementation,
Hierarchy Configuration in MDM hub.
 Defined the Base objects, Staging tables, foreign key relationships, static lookups, dynamic
lookups, queries, packages and query groups.
 Defined the Trust and Validation rules and setting up the match/merge rule sets to get the
right master records.
 Configured match rule set property by enabling search by rules in MDM according to
Business Rules.
 Involved in creating, monitoring, modifying, & communicating the project plan with other
team members.
 Performed match/merge and ran match rules to check the effectiveness of MDM process on
data.
 Configured schema, staging tables, and landing tables, base objects foreign-key
Relationships, look up systems and tables, packages, query groups and queries/custom
queries.
 Created Sessions/Batches in Informatica server manager to execute mappings.
 Used Hierarchies tool, for configuring entity base objects, entity types, relationship base
objects, relationship types, profiles, put and display packages and used the entity types as
subject areas in IDD.
 Successfully implemented IDD using hierarchy configuration and created subject area
groups, subject areas, subject area child, IDD display packages in hub and search queries for
searching the data.
 Deployed new MDM Hub for portals in conjunction with user interface on IDD application
 Deliver new systems functionality supporting corporate business objectives.
  Translate requirements and high-level design into detailed functional design specifications.
 Wrote stored procedures, functions, and database triggers in SQL Server 2008.
 Responsible to tune ETL procedures and schemas to optimize load and query Performance.
 Interpreted logical and physical data models for Business users to determine common data
definitions.
 Supported the BI team by extracting operational data from multiple sources, merging and
transforming the data to facilitate enterprise-wide reporting and analysis and delivering the
transformed data to coordinated data marts.
 Coordinated with Business Users to understand business needs and implement the same
into a functional Data warehouse design.
 Implemented the concept of slowly changing dimensions to maintain current and historical
data in the dimension. Designed and developed various Informatica mappings using
transformations like Expression, Aggregator, External Procedure, Stored Procedure, Lookup,
Filter, Joiner, Rank, Router, Update Strategy and XML.
 Developed various Ad-hoc mappings for various business needs.
 Facilitate/lead design reviews of functional design with other members of the technical
team, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality and limitations of
systems/applications.

Environment: Informatica Power center 9.0/8.6, Informatica MDM, oracle 11g/10g, Unix, Unix Shell
Script, Dollar Universe, OBIEE 10.1, TOAD, Teradata, SQL Assistant.

HCR MaorCare Toledo, OH (2009-2010)

Informatica MDM Architect
Responsibilities:

 Involved in landing the data from Seven Different source systems by running external batch
process to load business data for creating customer master data.
 External batch process used was ETL process.
 Defined the Landing tables, Base objects, staging tables, foreign key relationships, lookup
definitions, queries, packages and query groups.
 Analyzed the source systems for erroneous, duplicative, and integrity issues related to the
data which is resided in various source systems such as ERP, LEGACY, CRM, DNB, SALES
system, and defined those all source systems in systems and trust model workbench.
 Developed and managed relationships between data domains for the data models.
 Created mappings to perform the tasks such as cleansing the data and populate that into
staging tables.
 Analyzed the business data and defined the Match and Merge rules and Trust Scores for
MDM Hub.
 Involved in loading data from different sources to staging area by cleansing data to do this
we are using Trillium services and Duns Numbers from Duns and Bradstreet (DNB). After
getting data as per business requirement from DNB and Trillium we are loading data to the
ware house
 Involved with ETL developers, for developing complex mappings, mapplets, reusable
transformations using Informatica 8.6 designer to integrate data from different sources like
 Oracle, Flat files, and SQL databases by following guidelines and loaded data successfully
into target.
 Used Informatica components extensively Repository, Designer, Workflow Manager &
Workflow Monitor.
 For loading business logic successfully to database used different transformations like
Router, Expression, Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Filter and Sequence Generator
transformations extensively.
 Created workflows and used various tasks like Email, Event-wait and raise, decision in
workflow manager.
 Involved in interaction with DBA team for creation of primary and secondary indexes on
data warehouse tables.
 Used debugger to test the mappings and fixed bugs accordingly.
 Created Session and Batches using server manager to execute mappings.

Environment: Informatica Multi Domain MDM 9.5, Informatica Data Director 9.5, Informatica Power
Center 9.5, Oracle 11gR2, IBM DB2, Windows Server 2008, Teradata, Toad 10.1, SQL*Loader, Erwin.