Informatica Data Lakehouse Platform Administrator & Support Engineer📣 إعلان

About the Role

Salt is seeking an experienced Informatica Data Lakehouse Platform Administrator & Support Engineer for a contract position in Jeddah, Makkah. This hands-on role involves comprehensive support for a modern Data Warehouse and Cloudera Data Lakehouse ecosystem, with a focus on Informatica BDM/DEI, PowerExchange CDC, Axon, Spark, and Oracle technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Informatica BDM / DEI environments, services, and configurations.
• Monitor and support ETL workflows, mappings, and batch data pipelines.
• Troubleshoot failures, reruns, performance issues, and SLA-related incidents.
• Support Informatica PowerExchange / CDC pipelines, including capture, apply, latency, and data consistency issues.
• Administer and support Informatica Axon, including metadata, data lineage, and business glossary.
• Support Spark-based ETL processing and troubleshoot runtime, memory, and performance issues.
• Monitor Informatica services and runtime environments, including Tomcat and Spark.
• Support Oracle metadata repositories, including connectivity, performance, storage, backup, and maintenance.
• Provide L1/L2 production support, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
• Support deployments, releases, production cutovers, and environment maintenance.
• Contribute to platform upgrades, patching, and ongoing optimisation.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, monitoring dashboards, and operational documentation.
• Automate routine monitoring, alerting, and administration activities where possible.
• Participate in 24/7 support, on-call, and shift-based operations.

Technology Environment

The role involves working with the following technologies and architectural components:

• Informatica: BDM / DEI
• CDC: Informatica PowerExchange
• Data Governance: Informatica Axon
• Big Data / Runtime: Spark, Cloudera, Tomcat
• Database: Oracle
• Architecture: Data Warehouse + Data Lakehouse

Candidate Profile

• 5-8 years of experience working with Informatica platforms in administration, engineering, or production support.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica BDM / DEI.
• Strong experience with Informatica PowerExchange and CDC.
• Experience supporting Informatica Axon and data governance/metadata environments.
• Good understanding of Spark-based ETL processing.
• Experience working with Cloudera / Data Lakehouse environments.
• Strong Oracle database and Informatica repository knowledge.
• Proven experience troubleshooting production data platforms and resolving performance issues.
• Experience working within SLA-driven, 24/7 production environments.
• Strong understanding of incident management, root-cause analysis (RCA), deployments, and change management.

Work Context

This is a contract position based in Jeddah, Makkah, operating within a large-scale enterprise data environment in Saudi Arabia. The role requires active participation in 24/7 support, on-call rotations, and shift-based operations to ensure continuous platform availability and performance.

The Opportunity

This role offers an opportunity for an Informatica specialist to work across data integration, CDC, governance, and Data Lakehouse technologies within a dynamic enterprise data environment.