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Employee Onboarding

📘 Welcome!

Your Empower journey starts here! Read "Getting Started" below to get moving!

Pro tip: bookmark the links below for easy access, in particular HSAL CRM/Brand You, Timesheet/ODIN access, the internal and external Empower wikis, and Azure DevOps.

Getting Started​

  1. Learn about Empower! Read about the platform:
    1. Internal Team Wiki Documentation (this site!)
    2. About Empower (Public Documentation): https://docs.empoweranalytics.io/empower/docs/overview
  2. Access Hitachi Solutions America resources and training (Hitachi Solutions America)
  3. Check your access and ensure you have what you need. (Access Check)
  4. Please review the readme and repos listed here -> [GitHub]([GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/empowerplatform\))
  5. Schedule a recurring 1:1 with your manager at least on a bi-weekly cadence.
  6. Schedule a 45m meeting with your manager to get an introductory overview of the Empower product, delivery framework, and team.

Internal Wiki Documentation​

About Empower​

Hitachi Solutions America​

Access Check​

  • Email / Teams
    • Your Engineering Manager will add you to the appropriate team channels and chats.
    • Your Engineering Manager will then reach out to SRE, to complete onboarding access to the below systems.
    • How-To create your Email signature
  • When you join the team you should get an invite to GitHub, and a message from PowerAutomate/Flow on teams. Enter your personal GitHub account into that bot, and it will add HitachiSolutionsAmerica and Empower Platform as an organization.
    • If you didn't get a message/invite, message Evan Sotos.
    • To check access, see if you can access the empower repo on github .
  • Sharepoint for Empower - we recommend you "Sync" this folder with you local machine for fast access.
  • Datadog - for operational monitoring (all requests / metrics)
  • PyCharm - the team uses PyCharm for development. Be sure to download the software and install the CoPilot extension.
  • Postman Enterprise (for developers) Visit Team
    • Click "login with SSO" and type hitachisolutionsamerica
  • Lucid Charts - for UML and all things diagrams.
  • ODIN - Place to submit your timesheet
    • Your Engineering Managerwill reach out to Billing to add you to our Project Code, if present. If you will be billing to a client, please work with your Delivery Manager.
  • Azure Portal - You should see our internal development environments here.
  • Figma
  • For DEVELOPERS, please see the "Required Development Access" section.

List of Tools and Admins​

  • Odin Access - Kim Majernik
  • Empower ADO - Evan Sotos, Emilio Parisca, Raj Kumar Maragoni
  • Empower Teams Channel(s) - Michael Green , Evan Sotos
  • Postman - Evan Sotos
  • Readme - Evan Sotos, Emilio Parisca, Raj Kumar Maragoni
  • PyCharm license (IDE) - Evan Sotos
  • Empower git repo - Evan Sotos, Emilio Parisca, Raj Kumar Maragoni
  • Lucid chart license- raise a request through IT helpdesk approved by your manager
  • Augustus & Tiberius (databases, Key vault and Data Bricks cluster, ADF) - Emilio Parisca, Raj Kumar Maragoni (all the DEV and QA team should be provided access and any new team member should reach out to the leads to get the access)
  • Cloudflare - Evan Sotos
  • Data Dog - Evan Sotos, Emilio Parisca, Raj Kumar Maragoni
  • Figma - Evan Sotos
  • Google Analytics - Evan Sotos
  • Power BI - raise a request through IT helpdesk approved by your manager
  • Flyway - Evan Sotos
  • Docker license - raise a request through IT helpdesk approved by your manager