Database / Data Warehouse Specialist

Payrate: $60-70/Hr

Enters codes to create production data base. Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base. Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems. Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment. Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary. Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures. Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems. Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security. Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies. Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies. Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards. Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years Required/Preferred Experience

5 Required Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools

5 Required Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired

5 Required Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary

5 Required Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery

5 Required Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions

5 Required Well-developed oral and written communications skills

5 Required Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

5 Required Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult

5 Required Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques

5 Required Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output

5 Required Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models

5 Required GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.

5 Required Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.

5 Required Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.

5 Required Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL pe

5 Required Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.

5 Required Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.

5 Required Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.

5 Preferred Oracle Database experience

5 Preferred Power BI report creation