Salary : $96,781.80 Annually
Location : Denver Metro, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 00763-ITDevIII-IMS-0826
Department: Department of Education
Division: Information Management Services
Opening Date: 08/07/2026
Closing Date: 8/14/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Type of Announcement: This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address: Downtown/Denver Metro/Eligible for a hybrid (office/remote) work environment.***
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Department Information
This position is only open to current Residents of Colorado.
Incumbent will be required to complete work for CDE within Colorado.

Description of Job

Work Environment:
This position is full-time, supported by state funds (contingent upon funding availability), and is eligible for a hybrid work environment.

• Extended hours during the evening or the weekend may be required by business needs.
• Commuting to the CDE buildings may be required occasionally.
• A Remote (Home) office is required.
• Required to report to the work location per business needs.
• Essential Functions (ADAAA)
  • LIGHT/Office environment:
    • Required to sit, view a computer screen, and utilize a keyboard and mouse for extended periods of time.
    • May be required to lift and move up to 10 lbs of force frequently or 20 lbs occasionally.
    • Required lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, walking, etc.
    • Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree.
  • DL Not Required: Required to independently obtain and determine means to complete travel requirements.

Position Summary:
Turn data into impact at CDE. Join our Data Warehouse team to build and enhance Informatica ETL solutions that power critical reporting and help support education across Colorado.

The Information Management Services (IMS) unit provides technology, systems and information to help fulfill the goals of CDE. IMS supports CDE and Colorado School Districts through five teams: Network/Help Desk; Applications Development; Data Services, Project Management, and Data Warehouse. This position will be within the Data Warehouse team.

This position develops, maintains, and enhances Informatica Extract, Load, and Transform (ETL) processes to load data from the Operational Data Store (ODS) and external data sources to the Data Warehouse. It also develops, maintains, and enhances Informatica ETL processes for Data Marts and file creation for federal reporting. It must follow the Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC) process. This position may perform Informatica Administration functions, including software installation, tuning, defining best practices, and troubleshooting and resolution. This position may also require primary contact with the tool vendor or third-party vendors.

This position consults directly with business users, business analysts, and decision-makers to gather and document requirements and define scope. This position may require developing or assisting "data models" to help define project scope and requirements. This position assists with project plans, facilitates meetings, and assists with estimating and planning project deliverables and dependencies. This position attends planning sessions with internal customers to review upcoming enhancement requests and requirements for existing ETL processes and reports. This position as necessary, research background of requested enhancements to understand legislative requirements or educational practices driving the requests.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Developing Extract, Transform, Load Processes:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Informatica Extract, Load, and Transform (ETL) processes to load data from the Operational Data Store (ODS), Assessment collections, and external data sources to the Data Warehouse
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Informatica ETL processes for Data Marts and file creation for federal reporting.
• In all the above, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process must be followed.
• Must know how the SDLC works.
  • Gather functional requirements; develop detailed requirements; review the functional and detailed requirements with business users/owners; obtain signoff on requirements; develop software and unit test; migrate software to QA and get the business users/owners to test and approve; migrate approved software to production and set up runbooks and schedules.
  • Utilize and develop best practices.

Gathering Requirements:

• Consult directly with business users, business analysts and decision-makers to gather and document requirements and define scope.
  • This may require developing or assisting with "data models" to help define project scope and requirements.
  • Assists with project plans and facilitates meetings.
• Assist with estimating and planning project deliverables and dependencies.
• Attend planning sessions with internal customers to review upcoming requested enhancements and requirements to existing ETL processes and reports.
• As necessary, research the background of requested enhancements to understand legislative requirements or educational practices driving the requests.

Documentation:

• Keep existing documentation up to date with changes and modifications applied.
• Create new detailed documentation for new solutions and reports.
  • This would include adding documentation to related Informatica objects (mappings, workflows, etc.), comments in SQL code, updates to requirements and design documents (process, workflow, and data model documents).

Conducting Training:

• Coordinate and conduct training and testing for business analysts and other end-users.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires three (3) years of experience, OR A combination of education and experience totaling three (3) years.
Experience Only:

Three (3) years of relevant professional experience in data integration (SSIS), data warehouse management, or database administration.

Relevant experience includes work that included systems, processes, and knowledge as described below:

• Experience in Data integration with systems like Informatica, SSIS, or other ETL tools.
• Experience in data warehouse management that included dimensional data modeling, index mgt, etc
• Experience with Informatica IDMC / Informatica Cloudor PowerCenter with migration exposure.
• Experience supporting or administering Informatica environments.
• Strong SQL skills with Oracle databases.
• Experience working with stored procedures and database-driven logic.
• Experience supporting ETL testing, validation, and issue resolution.

OR

Education and Experience Combination:

A combination of related education (e.g., computer science disciplines), a formalized apprenticeship program, certification, and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the assigned work is equivalent to one (1) year of education and at least two (2) years of experience as described below as "Relevant Experience".

Relevant experience includes work that included systems, processes, and knowledge as described below:

• Experience in Data integration with systems like Informatica, SSIS, or other ETL tools.
• Experience in data warehouse management that included dimensional data modeling, index mgt, etc
• Experience with Informatica IDMC / Informatica Cloudor PowerCenter with migration exposure.
• Experience supporting or administering Informatica environments.
• Strong SQL skills with Oracle databases.
• Experience working with stored procedures and database-driven logic.
• Experience supporting ETL testing, validation, and issue resolution.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CONDITIONS:
Qualifications for Success in the Position:

• High level of proficiency with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• At least two (2) years of development experience as an Informatica developer, including requirements gathering, data mapping, developing new mappings, transformations, and workflows.
• Experience with UNIX/LINUX scripting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively balance quality of work and productivity expectations.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external customers (i.e. school districts, other CDE units, etc.).
• Ability to prioritize and organize work to accommodate and meet the changing needs of the department and meet deadlines.
• Takes initiative and exhibits a proactive approach to work.
• Identifies problems and recommends solutions prior to the standard being jeopardized.
• Ability to work independently, as well as on a team.
• Exhibits CDE's mission, vision and values by the consistent expression of professional, respectful, and customer service. oriented behaviors.

Preferred Qualifications (Preferred/Not Required):

• High level of proficiency with relational databases, such as Oracle, and data warehouse concepts.
• Three (3) Years Hands-on experience data modeling and data warehouse design.
• Three (3) Years Hands-on experience Informatica PowerCenter and IDMC developer.

Conditions of Employment (Required):

• Must be willing and able to submit to the pre-screening process and pass a background check.
• Ability and willingness to independently determine, obtain means, and complete required traveling/commuting.
• Work extended schedule per business needs.
• Report to work location per business needs.
• DL Not Required: Required to independently determine and obtain means to complete travel requirements.
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