--- title: "Hire Informatica Engineers for Enterprise Data Estates" description: "Hire Informatica engineers who work in enterprise data estates, respect governance and keep existing mappings running. Managed by Azendo, from Chiang Mai." url: "https://azendo.co/skills/informatica/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) 3. Informatica # Informatica specialists for your dedicated team. Informatica is an enterprise data integration platform covering ETL, data quality, master data management and governance. It is common in large organisations with long-established data estates and formal governance requirements. Our Informatica engineers keep the mappings behind your reporting running and documented, and get them ready for the move to the cloud. ## When an Informatica estate needs more engineers. Continuity is the most common case. The two people who know your PowerCenter repository are close to retirement or already gone. Month-end reporting depends on workflows the rest of the team can't read. Migration is the biggest. Informatica is steering PowerCenter customers towards its cloud platform, IDMC. The warehouse underneath is often moving to Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery at the same time. That is a programme of several years, with hundreds or thousands of mappings to assess. Cost has changed as well. Cloud licensing is metered in Informatica Processing Units, so a badly designed job now shows up on the invoice. ## Day-to-day work for our Informatica engineers. * Mapping changes Changing a mapping when a source system adds or renames a field, then proving the result with row counts and totals before and after. * Session tuning Reading session logs to find the slow transformation, then fixing it with pushdown optimisation, partitioning or a better lookup cache. * Documentation Writing source-to-target documents for mappings that have none, including the business rule behind each filter and expression. * Operations Keeping parameter files, workflow recovery and the schedules in Control-M or a similar scheduler in order, so a failed night run can be restarted safely. * Data quality Profiling sources and building rules and scorecards in Informatica Data Quality, so bad records are caught before they reach a report. * Cloud migration Listing every workflow, converting what the migration tooling can handle and rebuilding the rest in IDMC. Old and new run in parallel until the outputs match. Informatica is a niche skill, and we don't keep people on a bench waiting for it. We headhunt for your estate, whether that is PowerCenter, IDMC or both. The [offshore data engineers](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/) we assign work full time inside your governance rules and your change process. ## Risks in Informatica work, and how to handle them. Lift and shift is the tempting mistake. Converting two thousand old mappings one for one carries fifteen years of dead logic onto a platform that bills by usage. A good engineer starts with an inventory: what still runs, what feeds a report somebody reads and what can be retired. Missing reconciliation is the dangerous one. A migrated job that finishes without errors can still drop rows or round a number differently. Old and new should run side by side, with counts and totals compared, before anything is switched off. Business rules buried in expressions cause slow damage. A filter added in 2014 for one country's tax rule may exist only inside a mapping. Writing those rules down as they are found protects the company whatever tool comes next. ## Questions about Informatica engineers. * Should we stay on PowerCenter or move to IDMC? Two things decide it: your contract dates and where your warehouse is heading. Check your support terms with Informatica first. If the warehouse is moving to the cloud anyway, plan both moves together so each mapping is touched once. * Can we replace Informatica with dbt or Airflow? For plain transformations into a cloud warehouse, often yes, and the licence saving can be large. Mainframe sources, data quality rules, master data and the lineage that auditors rely on are harder to replace. Running both for a few years is a reasonable plan. * How do you find Informatica engineers? We recruit for each client, so the search starts from your version, your sources and your scheduler. We count four weeks from your signature to a hired engineer. The search runs at our risk, with no upfront fee. ## Roles that use Informatica * [ETL Developer Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/etl-developer/) ## Service areas that use Informatica * [Data engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/) Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill. ## What it's used with * [Talend, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/talend/) * [SSIS, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/ssis/) * [dbt, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/dbt/) * [Airflow, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/airflow/) * [Snowflake, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/snowflake/) * [Databricks, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/databricks/) * [BigQuery, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/bigquery/) * [Oracle, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/oracle/) * [SQL, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/sql/) * [Change data capture, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/change-data-capture/) * [data modelling, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/data-modelling/) ## Related in data pipelines * [Spark, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/spark/) * [Flink, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/flink/) * [Dagster, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/dagster/) * [Prefect, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/prefect/) * [Airbyte, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/airbyte/) * [incremental loads, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/incremental-loads/) * [dimensional design, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/dimensional-design/) * [star schema and dimensional modelling, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/star-schema-and-dimensional-modelling/) ## Tell us what you need Informatica for. A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like. [Browse all skills](https://azendo.co/skills/)