Sr. Database Developer

Title: Sr. Database Developer

Location: San Diego, CA

Contract Term: 12+ Months

Weekly 40.00 hours

1st Shift

Client: Medical Device Company

Job Category: Engineering

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

No H1B’s

Description:

Department Overview
The Software Technology Solution department is responsible for developing and maintaining on-premise and hosted software solutions that provide integration, reporting, and analytics capabilities for the company’s portfolio of products. Using industry best practices, the department is responsible for delivering high-quality, robust software applications that meet present and future requirements.
Purpose

The database developer is responsible for the design and development of database objects and procedural code to support various products for the organization. The database developer also creates programs to populate and maintain the data in the department’s transaction processing and data warehousing systems. This involves the creation of ETL programs along with the supporting stored procedures, functions, triggers, and constraints. The position requires extensive hands-on experience developing database queries, ETL, and associated code in a Microsoft SQL Server environment.

Specific Duties, Activities, and Responsibilities
• Understand and apply database design and development principles for both transactional and dimensional schemas to support application requirements.
• Design, plan, and develop programs to optimally extract, transform, and load data from data sources to the target systems.
• Maintain source code for database and ETL projects. Ensure that projects build successfully in a continuous integration environment.
• Develop or modify procedures to solve complex database design problems, including performance, scalability, security and integration issues.
• Troubleshooting and tuning complex SQL statements and making recommendations on indexing strategies.
• Follow and improve development processes including but not limited to conducting peer/code reviews, complying with organizational standards, ensuring code maintainability, following build processes, implementing unit tests, and following other industry standard best practices.
• Troubleshoot issues in an efficient and systematic manner to identify and resolve underlying causes as well as take a proactive approach to solving problems creatively using available resources.
• Support of production systems.
• Work with peers to prioritize and complete daily tasks and Production issues.
• Participate in daily team stand-ups, planning sessions, etc.

Position Requirements
Education or Equivalent
• BS in Computer Science or Information Systems

Experience
• 8+ years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server with emphasis on database code development Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements
• Database design skills including normalization and data warehouse design
• Strong T-SQL development skills including stored procedure, function, and trigger creation
• Excellent query optimization and performance tuning skills
• Strong SSIS skills
• Detailed analytical skills
• Structured troubleshooting skills

Preferred to have
• Experience with data modeling tools such as ER/Studio or ERWin
• Experience using version control systems (e.g., TFS, Git)
• Familiar with Agile software development process
• Working experience with Azure DB technologies and Azure deployments is a plus
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus

Toolset
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and above
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and above
• Embarcadero ER/Studio is a plus

Physical/Mental Requirements
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to analyze complex application and business operational issues.
• Ability to multi-task and respond to quickly-shifting priorities.
• Ability to work in a team and/or independently.

Any Additional/Important Information

The database developer will be additionally responsible for the following tasks:
• Analyzing requirements in order to create software designs
• Estimation and timely completion of tasks
• Documenting developed modules
• Supporting application developers and software testers
• Creating and executing unit tests for developed code
• Following quality assurance processes