Job Title: DATAWAREHOUSE ARCHITECT
Location: 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 2+ Years
Work schedule: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 8-5
Pay Rate: $70 per hour

DESCRIPTION OF WORK (SCOPE OF WORK)

ERAD currently hosts Cognos and Microsoft Power Platform technologies to provide data, reporting and application development to various departments in an Agency. It is anticipated that this platform will be exploited to a much greater extent in the near future to address all aspects of corporate reporting needs and application development which enables the organization to make decisions that achieve better outcomes, flexible deployment options, and to enable to easily scale analytics to meet changing business needs.
The successful candidate may work independently as well as with both consultant and staff resources of different units and departments throughout the Agency under the direction of project manager to deliver work projects including but not limited to

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 12 years of relevant experience in architecting, design, and development of databases or Datawarehouse systems in On-prem as well as in the cloud using Industry best practices.
• Experience in building end-to-end data warehouses and analytical systems using SQL Server family of products, Analysis Services Power BI, etc.
• Maintain complex Data Warehouse models to ensure data integrity, including the development, enhancement, and administration of appropriate ETL functions in support of Cognos TM1 and Cognos BI frameworks and reports.
• Experience in Data platforms development using Azure SQL database, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Azure Pipelines, Azure IaaS/PaaS related to database.
• Experience in data governance, data management, data modeling, data cleansing, data extraction and transformation, data analysis, data migration, data integration and data mapping .
• Strong experience using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SSAS and SSRS for analysis and report generation.
• Proficient in writing complex T-SQL Queries, Store Procedures, Views and ETL in re-designing Databases/Data Warehouse using SQL server technologies and any custom scripts.
• Knowledge or working experience with Cognos BI environment or other business Intelligence tool set such as Power BI or tableaus preferred .
• Must be hands on, deeply technical and exposure to latest features within data platform development, able to do both coding and guide junior database engineers.
• Excellent communications, presentation skills with ability to interact at all levels of the organization on a regular basis.
• Ability to act independently to resolve issues, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong critical & analytic thinking.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or related fields
• Any certification in related technologies is preferred

• New development: Working with PA technical manager, responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements, providing project plans for new implementation, develop, test and deploy solutions to prod environment following PA processes for tracking user requirements, project development status and testing and deploying solutions following change/release management process.
• Systems Testing and Deployment – Responsible for unit and system integration testing, coordinating with business users for user acceptance testing and getting sign off from business users to implement solutions in the production for any new enhancements or development following PA’s change/release management process.
• Systems Support – Provide maintenance, enhancements and support of platform making sure the stability of applications is maintained by resolving any data issues, user help tickets in timely manner and provide on-call availability for off-hour problem resolution.
• Environment Support - Maintenance of Non-prod and Prod Cognos environments making sure the stability of these environments is always maintained by applying any required patching and upgrades as required.
• System administration - Provide system administration for installation and configurations of different components of Cognos platform, upgrades and responsible to maintain and establish user accounts, security profiles, controlling access to applications and reports following the process.
• Troubleshooting and Problem Management and Resolution - Logging, documenting, tracking and resolving system problems while ensuring ongoing data integrity with any and all interfaces and/or systems.
• Disaster Recovery Support – Defining, in conjunction with the Port Authority, the scope of periodic disaster recovery tests. Coordinating with other Port Authority staff and third parties to ensure all required tasks are covered for these tests.
• Documentation and Training - Responsible for providing all documentation needed for the continued operation and management of the system and for any new implementations that is accurate and available and in compliance with PA Standards. Provide training to end users on any new functionality of the application or platform by providing user guides.