Informatica Product Owner - Remote

The Jackson Laboratory

Job Overview

Location

6 Locations

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Provide strategic oversight and operational leadership for the entire Informatica platform estate, including IDMC/IICS, PowerCenter, Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC/CDGC), Axon Data Governance, MDM, and Data Quality (IDQ), ensuring alignment with enterprise data strategy and architectural standards.
• Establish and maintain governance practices for Informatica platforms, including development standards, naming conventions, folder/project structures, deployment policies, code promotion workflows, and operational guardrails.
• Partner with data engineering, data governance, analytics, business leaders, security, and infrastructure teams to prioritize platform enhancements, connector adoption, and capacity expansion.
• Contribute to the Informatica roadmap in collaboration with enterprise architecture and business stakeholders to align platform evolution with organizational objectives.
• Administer 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 development, test, and production environments through repository management, object migration, CI/CD coordination, and release readiness processes.
• 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 SAML/SSO, SCIM, role-based access control, secure credential management, key/secret handling, and data masking/encryption policies.
• Collaborate with security, data privacy, and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for critical Informatica platform issues, serving as the senior escalation point for platform-related outages or performance degradation.
• Maintain strong communication with data engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to provide clear updates on platform status, job SLAs, risks, and change windows.
• Guide adoption and enablement of best practices among Informatica developers and citizen integrators through training, documentation, and mentorship.
• Manage relationships with Informatica and associated service providers, including support case escalation, GCS engagement, roadmap alignment, and participation in product advisory councils.
• Support business case development, cost-benefit analysis, and ROI evaluation for Informatica investments, including IPU consumption forecasting and license optimization.
• Define and document operational standards, runbooks, knowledge transfer processes, and maintenance procedures to enhance platform maturity and team readiness.
• Stay current on Informatica product capabilities, IDMC releases, CLAIRE-powered AI features, and industry trends in data integration and management.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior Informatica administrators, ETL/ELT developers, and support teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the organization’s data integration and governance objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in enterprise data integration, with at least 4 years hands-on Informatica administration (IDMC/IICS or PowerCenter)
• Deep expertise in Informatica platform administration (IDMC/IICS, PowerCenter, EDC, MDM, IDQ, Axon)
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Proficiency with relational and cloud data platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery)
• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay range of $98,885 - $165,554
• Remote work opportunity with support for employees across multiple U.S. locations
• Employment with The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center
• Opportunity to contribute to global biomedical research and improve human health through precise genomic solutions

Skills & Technologies

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Git

Product Management

Remote

$98k-165k

Degree Required

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About The Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory is a nonprofit biomedical research institution founded in 1929 and headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a genomic medicine campus in Farmington, Connecticut. It maintains the world’s largest collection of mouse models for human disease and provides scientific services, educational programs, and data resources to the global research community. JAX scientists use genetics and genomics to investigate cancer, aging, immunology, neurobiology, and metabolic disorders, translating discoveries into clinical applications. The institution also trains students and clinicians while operating mouse breeding, phenotyping, and cryopreservation facilities that support academic, pharmaceutical, and government research worldwide.

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