Senior Technical Specialist
Location : Burbank, California
Job Type : C2C
Job Mode : Hybrid (4 days / week onsite)
Pay Rate : $68 / hr
Industry : Information Technology / Data Engineering / ETL
End Date : 01-Jan-2026
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist with deep expertise in Informatica PowerCenter and SAP data integration. The role focuses on ETL development, production support, SAP source extraction, performance tuning, and leading L2 / L3 support activities. The consultant will support daily ETL operations, guide junior team members, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure SLAs are met through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.
Responsibilities
- Lead support and maintenance of Informatica PowerCenter / CDI-PC workflows, mappings, and sessions.
- Monitor daily ETL jobs, troubleshoot failures, and perform RCA with permanent fixes.
- Manage SAP ECC / S4HANA data extraction using IDocs, RFCs, connectors, or BAPIs.
- Work with SAP functional teams to understand business logic and data structures.
- Guide junior ETL developers and collaborate with SAP, BI, and DBA teams.
- Participate in change management, release planning, and production deployments.
- Maintain documentation : runbooks, SOPs, ETL process summaries.
- Tune Informatica sessions / workflows for high performance.
- Implement best practices for logging, error handling, and recovery.
- Lead support teams on bug fixes, enhancements, and client interactions.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor L2 teams, and support L3 technical delivery.
- Ensure SLA adherence through proactive monitoring and timely incident resolution.
- Work closely with application, platform, and hyper-care support teams.
Required Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Informatica PowerCenter (10.x or higher).Proven SAP data extraction expertise (IDoc, BAPI, RFC, ODP).Solid understanding of ETL architecture, data warehousing, and data modeling.Experience with production support and ticketing tools (e.g., ServiceNow).Knowledge of Oracle / SQL Server, Unix / Linux scripting, and job schedulers (Maestro, Control-M).Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Informatica IICS or Informatica MDM.Exposure to AWS / Azure and data lake architectures.Knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.