Job Title: BI Developer/Database Administrator

Location: Rancho Cordova CA (Hybrid)

Contract

Job Description

5 years minimum experience as BI SQL Developer and/or a database administrator

The individual will be 80% supporting BI development and 20% DBA critical activities.

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