Description

Responsibilities:

  • Partner closely with upstream application teams and developers to ensure data sources are accurate, available, and timely.
  • Efficiently and accurately develop with complex SQL queries (stored procedures, views, and functions).
  • Collaborate with front end business intelligence developers and analysts to test, clean, and standardize data to meet the business requirements.
  • Responsible for detailed documentation of database structures, configurations, and procedures is essential for maintaining a well-managed database environment through functional specs and document repository.
  • Designing the structure of new databases, including tables, relationships, and data integrity constraints, to ensure optimal performance and efficiency, including 3rd Normal Form i.e. normalization\denormalization as appropriate.
  • Proactively monitor server, database, query performance.
  • Fine tune query, database, server performance as needed.
  • Make sure all access is provisioned through database roles and address instances not compliant.
  • Regular database backup maintenance and retention according to backup and retention policy.
  • Monitor agent jobs and troubleshoot when issues arise.
  • Monitor SSIS package runs and first level of troubleshooting when issues arise in SSIS/SQL.
  • Manage access through periodic audits and ensure users have correct access on the server.
  • Have the confidence to work cross-functionally with various organizations including business stakeholders and technical partners to exchange ideas to meet business requirements.
  • Must have excellent verbal communications skills and documentation skills to maintain work flows and query functionality.
  • Adhere to Agile SCRUM methodology and processes.

Qualifications:

  • Leverage SQL and SSIS for interacting with SQL server data models included but not limited to an understanding of data connectors and dimensional modeling, tables and queries.
  • Experience working with large and complex data sets and able to write complex queries to create stored procedures, views, and functions.
  • Empirical understanding of data systems (BI analytics, data blending, data warehousing, data ELT, etc.) on process automation and standardization.
  • Experience working on a support team environment by documenting, researching, solving problems through service help desk ticketing system.
  • Experience working directly with business analysts or business sponsors to gather and validate functional requirements and provide the design specifications.
  • SQL server administration.
  • SQL server - management, monitoring and performance tuning.
  • Experience managing OLAP and OLTP databases.
  • Create, manage and troubleshoot agent jobs.
  • SSIS - create, maintain and troubleshoot packages.
  • SQL - ability to query system and user databases, analyze query plans, propose and implement performance optimization through schema and query optimization, optimize indexes.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects and flexibility to change priorities when needed.
  • A 4-year degree in MIS (Management Information Systems), Information Technology or Computer Science.
  • 5 years minimum experience as BI SQL Developer and/or a database administrator.

Education

Degree in MIS (Management Information Systems), Information Technology or Computer Science.