Description
Informatica Architect Overview
- Role summary: Design end‑to‑end data integration and enterprise data solutions using Informatica products and ecosystem.
- Solution architecture: Define logical and physical architectures for ETL, ELT, cloud/on‑prem deployments, and hybrid topologies.
- Data modeling: Lead conceptual, logical, and physical data models; align ETL mappings with dimensional and normalized schemas.
- Informatica stack expertise: Deep knowledge of PowerCenter, Cloud Data Integration, MDM, Data Quality, and metadata services.
- MDM and master data design: Architect Hub configurations, survivorship rules, match/merge strategies, and stewardship workflows.
- Integration patterns: Select and implement batch, streaming, CDC, and API‑based integration patterns for latency and consistency needs.
- Performance engineering: Define partitioning, pushdown optimization, session tuning, and resource sizing for high throughput.
- Security and governance: Specify encryption, role‑based access, audit trails, data masking, and compliance controls.
- Metadata and lineage: Implement metadata management, impact analysis, and end‑to‑end lineage for traceability.
- Testing and quality: Establish unit, integration, regression, and data quality test strategies with automation.
- CI/CD and deployment: Design pipelines for artifact versioning, automated deployments, and environment promotion.
- Operational readiness: Define monitoring, alerting, runbooks, HA, and disaster recovery for production SLAs.
- Cloud migration and cost optimization: Plan lift‑and‑shift or replatform strategies, right‑size cloud resources, and manage licensing tradeoffs.
- Cross‑team collaboration: Translate business requirements into technical designs and mentor development and operations teams.
- Advanced analytics enablement: Expose curated datasets for BI, ML, and data science while preserving governance.
- Vendor and roadmap management: Evaluate Informatica releases, plan upgrades, and align platform roadmap with business goals.
- Soft skills: Drive stakeholder alignment, present architecture decisions, and lead technical governance forums.
