Data Warehouse Architect

The state maintains an enterprise data warehouse built on the Teradata ecosystem. Below is a list of services; however, this list is not exhaustive.

8\+ years required for the following:

• Teradata database
• Upgrades, provisioning, software maintenance, scripting – BASH, Perl, Python, Glink
• Teradata ecosystem health monitoring
• Teradata node management
• Teradata Viewpoint administration
• Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU)
• PSIM (Platform Service Intelligent Monitoring) administration
• Teradata vendor upgrades
• Teradata workload management
• Teradata backup \& recovery
• Performance tuning and resource optimization
• Extract Transform Load (ETL)
• Unix/Linux knowledge
• Cloud computing fundamentals, resource allocation, networking, preferably MS Azure
• Statistics
• Audits \& security plans
• Federal requirements – NIST 800-53, IRS Pub 1075, SSA, Medicaid, etc.

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) service offered by client provides customers with the ability to conduct high performance analytics, data mining activities, and enhanced decision support capabilities. Currently, the EDW service employs Teradata technology.

This position will serve as a platform administrator for the EDW, consisting of 3 distinct platforms (Production, Development/Disaster Recovery, and Test). The EDW provides enterprise data warehousing services to executive branch department as well as the State Court Administrator Offices statewide. A total of 7 departments are supported, with a user base of over 10,000 and 40 Terabytes of data. This position researches and coordinates long term EDW strategies with all current and potential users, management and vendor personnel. This position defines the technical planning, implementation plan, and delivery of the EDW platform services and supporting technologies to meet the client’s business requirements and objectives. This includes vendor communication, trouble reporting, escalated troubleshooting, and release/patch management. This position is responsible for providing operating system guidance along with EDW security expertise for the systems as well as advising the Agencies on disaster recovery planning strategies related to the EDW and their business applications. The position is also responsible for platform performance monitoring and resolving performance issues. This position provides direct technical expertise to department DBAs and specialists across the enterprise.