Senior Database Developer

Senior Database Engineer

Digital Intelligence Solutions (DISYS) is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to provide clinical data solutions for healthcare informatics efforts as part of a team that designs, develops, and delivers a large-scale Data Mart solution.

We are looking for a highly motivated professional with advanced database architectural, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills who is interested in a multi-year position in a senior-level capacity.

Local candidates OR willing to relocate from day 1 – prefer local to East Bay. Even though it’s remote after day 1 to collect their laptops, they still will only consider non-local candidates that are willing to relocate from day 1.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and optimize large, complex DB schemas, SQL scripts and objects to meet application functionality and performance requirements.
• Working cohesively with stakeholders including data, design, product, and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues.
• Working closely with application developers and business teams at all levels to assist with data-related technical issues and help ensure the successful designing and delivering data driven solutions.
• Implement processes and procedures for the development and release of products/projects that facilitate high quality and rapid deployment
• Provide solutions to promote data integrity in enterprise systems.
• Participate in code reviews to validate effectiveness and quality of code.
• Liaise with Developers to improve applications and establish best practices
• Publish documentation and collaborative information using internal tools.

Requirements:

• Expertise in Database Architecture in an environment that handles large volume of data, excess of 500 million of new data records every day.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills. This job involves analyzing existing databases and the client’s needs to develop effective data driven solutions.
• Demonstrate expertise in performance tuning including both query and server optimization utilizing SQL tools and/or 3rd party solutions.
• Strong knowledge and experience in data modeling, database design, optimization for performance, SQL, stored procedures.
• Expertise in understanding complex business needs, analyzing, designing, and developing solutions.
• Hands-on development experience in SQL Server 2016 or above using SSIS and SSRS
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving data related issues.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Expertise in performance tuning especially tuning complex queries, procedure, and indexing strategies.
• Monitor and perform tuning on complex ETL jobs using meta-data/variables/parameters.
• Performance tuning experience using 3rd party tools.
• Audit/compliance experience in highly regulated environment.
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence as part of development life cycle.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau, SSRS, Power BI.
• Familiar with Continual Improvement processes.
• Familiar with Git.

Experience:

• 8 years + relational database and SQL experience
• Creativity, curiosity, initiative, and self-management are key attributes candidate embodies.
• Solid experience (4 years +) in coding complex SQL queries and stored procedures. The ability to explain the details of performance tuning internals of the database.
• Strong understanding of database development methodologies (Source Control, Continual improvement, Release Management, Agile and Scrum)
• Experience with Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) a big plus Experience with Red Gate Tools a plus (SQL Source Control, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, DLM).
• Healthcare domain knowledge a big plus.