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