Informatica Product Owner - Remote

The Informatica Administrator is a senior, enterprise technology role responsible for the administration, governance, stability, and continuous optimization of the organization's Informatica data integration and data management platforms. This includes Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC/IICS), PowerCenter, Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC/CDGC), Axon Data Governance, Informatica MDM, Data Quality (IDQ), and associated Secure Agents and connectivity components. While aligned to the Informatica technology stack, the role operates at a high level and follows standardized expectations used consistently across all senior platform administrator roles. The Senior Informatica Administrator partners with data engineering, data governance, analytics, business leaders, platform owners, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure Informatica platforms are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise data strategy and organizational objectives., * Provide strategic oversight and operational leadership for the Informatica platform estate, ensuring alignment with enterprise data strategy, architectural standards, and data governance frameworks.

• Establish and maintain Informatica governance practices, including development standards, naming conventions, folder/project structures, deployment policies, code promotion workflows, and operational guardrails.
• Partner with data platform owners, data product owners, and business stakeholders to prioritize Informatica enhancements, connector adoption, and capacity expansion.
• Contribute to the Informatica roadmap in collaboration with data engineering, enterprise architecture, and business leaders.
• Oversee administration of all Informatica environments, including domain/org configuration, Secure Agent management, runtime environment setup, user and role provisioning, connector and connection management, and integration with source and target systems.
• Ensure consistent management of dev, test, and production environments, including repository management, object migration, deployment coordination via CI/CD, and release readiness.
• Lead Informatica upgrade, hotfix, patching, EBF application, and release validation activities across PowerCenter, IDMC pods, and on-premises Secure Agents.
• Monitor platform health, job performance, session/taskflow execution, and reliability using Operational Insights, Monitor, and third-party observability tools.
• Enforce Informatica security standards, including IAM (SAML/SSO, SCIM), role-based access control, secure connection credentials, key/secret management, and data masking/encryption policies.
• Partner with security, data privacy, and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulatory requirements.
• Oversee incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for Informatica-related issues.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for Informatica platform issues, balancing operational stability with business priorities.
• Maintain strong relationships with data engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders, providing clear communication on platform status, job SLAs, risks, and change windows.
• Guide adoption, enablement, and best practices for Informatica developers and citizen integrators.
• Manage the relationship with Informatica and associated service providers, including support case escalation, GCS engagement, roadmap alignment, and product advisory participation.
• Support business case development, cost-benefit analysis, and ROI evaluation for Informatica investments, including IPU consumption forecasting and license optimization.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to Informatica administrators, ETL/ELT developers, and support teams.
• Define operational standards, runbooks, documentation practices, and knowledge transfer processes to strengthen platform maturity.
• Stay current on Informatica product capabilities, IDMC releases, CLAIRE-powered AI features, and industry trends.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Deep expertise in Informatica platform administration (IDMC/IICS, PowerCenter, EDC, MDM, IDQ, Axon).
• Strong knowledge of data integration patterns: batch, real-time, CDC, and API-based.
• Proficiency with relational and cloud data platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, including performance tuning, session log analysis, pushdown optimization, and Secure Agent diagnostics.
• Knowledge of enterprise security standards: SAML/SSO, SCIM, RBAC, encryption, and data masking.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git integration, and DataOps practices for Informatica.
• Working knowledge of scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell), SQL tuning, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for business and executive audiences.
• Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration with data engineering, security, governance, analytics, and business stakeholders.
• 7+ years in enterprise data integration, with at least 4 years hands-on Informatica administration (IDMC/IICS or PowerCenter).
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required.

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