Rahul

Sr. Informatica Developer

732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

9+ years of IT experience with in depth knowledge in design, development, enhancement of Data

Warehouse and Business Intelligence applications for Financial, banking, insurance, Retail and
manufacturing industries.
Strong development skills and ability to work through entire software development life cycle
(SDLC) methodologies.
Extensively worked on developing Informatica Mappings, Mapplets, Sessions, Workflows and
Worklets for data loads from different sources like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Flat files, XML data
with various data formats.
Extensively worked with Teradata utilities like BTEQ, Fast Export, Fast Load, Multi Load to
export and load data to/from different source systems including flat files.
Expertise in using Informatica Power center / Power Mart for data extraction, transformation and
loading (ETL) from desperate data sources like oracle, SQL server, flat files, MS Access, JMS and
XML files and load the data into different targets.
Expertise in extracting the data from xml files and loaded into ODS, EDW using XML Source
Qualifier, XML Parser Transformations.
Extensively worked on ETL Informatica Transformations including Source Qualifier, Connected Unconnected Lookup, Filter, Expression, Router, Joiner, Rank, Aggregator, Sorter and Sequence
Generator and created complex mappings.
Extensively worked on slowly changing dimensions like SCD type-1, type-2 and type-3 to maintain
the transactional data and historical data for the need of business process and change data capture
(CDC) using Informatica applications.
Solid Experience in working with UNIX Shell Scripts for automatically running sessions, aborting
sessions, creating parameter files and running batch jobs.
Experienced in designing Data Marts and Data Warehouse using Star Schema and Snowflake
Schemas in implementing Decision Support Systems, followed Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon
methodologies extensively.
Strong database experience with SQL, PL/SQL Programming skills like creating indexes, joins,
functions, stored procedures, triggers and cursors using Toad and SQL*Plus.
Hands on experience on Teradata V2R6, 12.0, 13.0, Teradata SQL Assistant
Experience in using scheduling tools TWS (Tivoli Job Scheduler), AutoSys and Control M to
automate running of Informatica Workflows on a daily Batch Jobs.
Experienced in developing complex reports using Business Objects Webi Rich Client & Crystal
Reports Enterprise having Parameter/Formula Fields and Selection Formulas, Grouping and Sub
reports.

TECHNICAL SKILL

ETL Tools:

Informatica Power Center 9.1/8.6.1/8.5/8.1.1/8.0/, Power Mart 6.2/6.1/5.1.x/4.7,

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Power Exchange, Power Connector,ErWIN

Reporting Tools:

Cognos 10.x, 8.x, Report Net, Power Play, Cognos Query, Power Play Web
reports, Crystal Reports, Meta Manager,Business Objects (BOBJ)

Databases:

Oracle 11g/10g /9i/8i, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS SQL, MS-Access, IBM DB2
v9.5/9.1, UDB, Tera Data(14.1)

Other Tools:

TOAD, SQL*Loader, Microsoft Office and Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Aon Hewitt Lincolnshire, IL
Sr Informatica Developer

July 2014 to Till date

Aon is implementing a cloud based enterprise wide Workday HR solution to house all Core HR
data, Payroll Data & HR processing. The current legacy Aon and & Aon-Hewitt HR systems are
feeding PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain 9.0 modules with employee indicative data,
which is feeding to various downstream systems. FDW Financial Data Warehouse also gets
employee indicative data from PeopleSoft Financials as well as HR system.
Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Involved in designing, developing and deploying reports in MS SQL Server environment using
SSRS-2008 and SSIS in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS).
Used SSRS to develop different kinds of reports like canned, ad-hoc reports for the State and Local
Agency users.
Prepared the complete data mapping and Report Definitions for the project which involved around
33 reports.
Involved in creating multiple parameterized stored procedures which were used by the reports to get
the data.
Worked on formatting SSRS reports using the Global variables and expressions.
Created parameterized reports, Drill down and Drill through reports using SSRS.
Deployedanduploaded the SSRS reportstoSharePoint Serverfor the end users and involved in
enhancements and modifications.
Used ETL (SSIS) to develop jobs for extracting, cleaning, transforming and loading data into data
warehouse.
Involved in the Migration of Databases from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008.
Prepared the complete data mapping for all the migrated jobs using SSIS.
Created databases and schema objects including tables, indexes and applied constraints, connected
various applications to the database and written functions, stored procedures and
triggers.
Designed SSIS Packages to transfer data from flat files to SQL Server using Business Intelligence

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Development Studio.
Extensively used SSIS transformations such as Lookup, Derived column, Data conversion,
Aggregate, Conditional split, SQL task, Script task and Send Mail task etc.
Used Execution Plan, SQL Profiler and Database Engine Tuning Advisor to optimize queries and
enhance the performance of databases.

Environment: SQL Integration Services(SSIS), SSRS,Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor,

Informatic Power Connect / Power Exchange Toad,SQL,DB2,Control M , Business Objects XI R2
American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Pittsburgh,PA
Sr Informatica Developer/Teradata Developer

Nov 2013 June 2014

American Eagle Outfitters is a leading clothing and accessories retailer with widely spread stores within
and outside US. The applications and projects are with the objective of providing a set of standard reports
for planning and analysis to the financial group.

Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Worked with Business Analysis team in gathering the requirements and created Functional and ETL
specification documents.
Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and laid out the steps for the data extraction,
business logic implementation & loading into targets.
Involved in gathering information for various scenario for Change Data Capture.
Worked with DBA to set up the DEV and QA environment and various users and roles
Involved in Developing Unix script to load data to Teradata using FLOAD, TPUMP, MLOAD,
BTEQ, etc.
Created, optimized, reviewed, and executed Teradata SQL test queries to validate
Extensively worked with Informatica Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Transformation
developer, Mapplet Designer, Mapping Designer, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Monitor
to develop various complex mappings, mapplets, reusable transformations, session tasks and
Workflows.
Developed mappings, sessions and workflows (ETL) for SCD types I, II and III to meet the above
requirements
Used Workflow manager to create and configure workflow and session task to load data. Used
Informatica workflow monitor to create, monitor workflow in case of process failures.
Creating tasks, sessions, events, timers etc in the workflow manager and monitoring them in the
workflow monitor.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.1, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, Informatica
Power Connect / Power Exchange, Power Analyzer, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g/9i,Teradata Sql Assistant
(fastload, multiload, tpump),Toad,SQL,DB2,Control M ,Cognos 10.2
Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Pharmaceuticals) Titusville, NJ

Nov 2012 Oct 2013

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Sr Informatica Developer (L3 Support)/Teradata Developer

Johnson & Johnson is one of the Leading pharmaceutical industries in the United States. The main
objective of Contract Sales System Data Mart is to support Sales Representatives with Physicians and
Hospitals contract information. Sales, Marketing & Contract information was collected from different
tests conducted on the subjects

Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Analyzed the functional specs provided by the data architect and created technical specs documents
for all the mappings.
Extensively used Erwin tool in Forward and reverse engineering, following the Corporate Standards
in Naming Conventions, using Conformed dimensions whenever possible.
Designed and developed Informatica Mappings to load data from Source systems to ODS and then
to Data Mart
Extensively used Power Center/Mart to design multiple mappings with embedded business logic.
Creation of Transformations like Lookup, Joiner, Rank and Source Qualifier Transformations in the
Informatica Designer
Created complex mappings using Unconnected Lookup, Sorter, Aggregator, newly changed
dynamic Lookup and Router transformations for populating target table in efficient manner
Created Mapplet and used them in different Mappings
Provided Knowledge Transfer to the end users and created extensive documentation on the design,
development, implementation, daily loads and process flow of the mappings.
Performance tuning of the Informatica mappings using various components like Parameter files,
Variables and Dynamic Cache
Performance tuning using round robin, hash auto key, Key range partitioning
Adhoc data requests and investigations
Tier 3 support of EDW production processes including, but not limited to Issue investigation, root
cause analysis, and defect resolution
Design, develop and implementation of quality assurance and quality control processes

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1/9.1, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, Informatica
Power Connect / Power Exchange, Power Analyzer, IMS Data ,Maestro, PL/SQL, Oracle,
Teradata(fastload, multiload, tpump),10g/9i,Toad Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.4
,Tidal
Abbott Laboratories Waukegan, IL
Jun 2011 Oct 2012
Sr. Informatica Developer
The projects goal was to build an OLTP system to compare and analyze product prices, their quantities
and patient profiles. A relational database system was designed to deliver reports and information to sales
and marketing management. Additionally, the aim of the project was also to develop an Enterprise Data
Warehouse (EDW).

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Design and develop the semantic layer for the reporting purpose so that the end user reporting
may not be affected.
Captured the changes in the data field and analyzed the impacts on different systems with the
introduction of Oracles off shelf product.
Extract data from Oracle and upload to oracle tables using Sql Loader
Derived the data mappings that could load all the information from sources to the targets.
Designed the informatica source from mainframe system to target mappings to perform the initial
load into the production server.
Devised strategies of extracting data from UNIX to Staging and then from Staging to ORACLE
RDBMS.
Efficiently utilized Transformations including Expression, Router, Joiner, and Connected and
Unconnected lookups, Filter, Aggregator, Rank, Sorter and Sequence Generator in the
mappings.
Implemented and extensively worked on slowly changing dimensions Type1, Type2 and Type3
for accessing transaction history of accounts and transaction information using Change Data
Capture (CDC) corresponding to business requirements.
Designed and Developed Relational and Dimensional Data Models in Framework Manager
based on clients reporting requirements.
Designed and Developed List Reports, Crosstab Reports, Charts by using Cognos 10 Report
Studio and Query Studio.

Environment:- Informatica Power Center 9.1,Cognos 10(Framework manager, Report Studio, Query
Studio, Cognos Connection), Autosys, Oracle 11g, Sybase, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, flat files, web services,
UNIX, Windows NT, Erwin 7.x, Toad 10, Oracle.
American Family Insurance, Madison, WI
Sr. ETL Developer

Jan 2010 to May 2011

American Life Insurance Company provides supplemental life insurance to labor unions, credit unions, and
associations. The main aim of the project was to build primary information hub and ODS platform & then we
implemented the pilot project for the customer centers query system, thus improved the core data quality,
cleanse, consolidate, and load the data into the ODS database, then transform the multiple database into a
single customer view for better service.
Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Held sessions with business user and data analysts to gather requirements and associated different
source systems for data integration process.
Identified documented data sources and transformation logic required to populate data and
maintain targets.
Played key role in determining data feed extraction process, data analysis, and testing and project
coordination.

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Designed conceptual design model to understand the base architecture of data integration process
includes sources, transformations rules and target.
Transformations logic implemented to support ETL (extract, transform, load) processes to load
data into staging database using Informatica power center.
Applied transformation logics by implementing transformations such as XML transformation,
lookup transformations, Update strategy transformation, expression transformation, joiner
transformation etc to extract, transform and load data into target.
Designed re-useable transformations to quickly add new data sources and transformations
related to business needs.
Implemented change data capture mechanism using slowly changing dimensions type-II.
Event wait, event raise, command task utilized to handle the execution of workflow sessions
using Informatica workflow manager.
Develop store procedure, packages to utilize in mappings using store procedure transformation..

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1.1, DB2, Oracle 10g, SQLSERVER 2005, UNIX, TOAD,
SQL*Plus, Core FTP & Windows XP
KB HOME, CA
Sr. Informatica Developer

July 2007 Dec 2009

One of the largest homebuilders in America, KB HOME has over 45 years experience and a reputation in
the industry for innovation and customer satisfaction. KB Home is one of America's premier
homebuilders with domestic operating divisions in some of the fastest-growing areas of the country
including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia the company's majority-owned subsidiary, is
one of the largest homebuilders in France.
Data Integration / ETL Responsibilities:

Gathered Business requirements by conducting meetings with business analyst, stake holders,
development teams and data analysts on a scheduled basis.
Imported various Sources, Targets, and developed Transformations using Informatica Power
Center Designer.
Developed various Mappings with the collection of all Sources, Targets, and Transformations.
Created Mapplets using Mapplets Designer.
Used Type2 mapping to update a slowly changing dimension table to keep full history.
Captured source file/table definitions, target data, and data mart table definitions.
Create and maintain metadata and ETL documentation that support business roles and detailed
source to target data mappings.
Designed and developed complex Aggregate, Join, Router, Look up and Update
transformation rules (business rules).
Created and Scheduled Sessions and Batch Processes based on run on demand, run on time, run
once, and run continuously.
Interacted with business users, analysts for requirements, developed conceptual and logical data
models.

Rahul
Sr. Informatica Developer
732-444-2886
hari@applabsystems.com

Wrote PL/SQL Packages, procedures, functions in oracle for business rules conformity.
Utilized SQL loader, export/import utilities for data load and transformation.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1.1, DB2, Oracle 10g, SQLSERVER 2005, UNIX, TOAD,
Visio 2000, SQL*Plus, Core FTP & Windows XP.
ICICI Bank India INDIA
Data Base Developer

Feb 2005 to June 2007

ICICI Bank is India's largest private sector bank by market capitalization and second largest overall in
terms of assets. Bank has total assets of about USD 77 billion, a network of over 1,400 branches, and 24
million customers. Worked on retail collection system, a GUI based client/server bill collection software,
to assist brokers in carrying out their daily transactions.
Responsibilities:

Worked with business users to define and analyze problems and business needs by involving in
sessions with the analysts.

Created a bridge table for the numerous dimension groups and related them accordingly.

Applied reusable tasks and work lets in informatica that can be helped for easier design of
workflows to implement the transformations that help movement of data from diversified sources to
the target.

Tuned performance of Informatica Session by increasing block size, data cache size, sequence buffer
length and Target based commit interval, and mappings by dropping and recreation of indexes.

Performed Unit testing during the mapping phase to ensure proper and efficient implementation of
the transformations

Written UNIX Shell Scripts and Pmcmd command line utility to interact with Informatica Server
from command mode.
Environment: - SQL Server 2005, Oracle 8i, Erwin, UNIX and Shell Scripting
EDUCATION:
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
JNTU, INDIA