Senior Technical Specialist Location: Burbank, California Job Type: C2C Job Mode (Remote/Hybrid/Onsite): 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.