Database developer (Remote)/12 Months
Title: Database developer Duration: 12 Months Location: San Diego,CA, 92121 (Remote)
Job Description
The Software Technology Solutions 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. Database developer
- 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.
III. 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.
- Diagnose and resolve database performance issues.
- 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 standards best practices.
- Experience with automatic code deployment (Octopus) tool is a plus
Education or Equivalent
- BS in Computer Science or Information Systems
Experience or Equivalent
- 9+ years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server with emphasis on database code development.
- V. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements
- Data modeling tools such as ER/Studio or ERWin
- Database design skills including normalization and data warehouse design
- 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
- Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus
VI. Toolset
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and above
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2014 and above
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 to 2019 migration experience is a plus
- Embarcadero ER/Studio is a plus
- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a plus
- Experience with automatic code deployment tools (Octopus) is a plus
VII. Physical/Mental Requirements
- Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to analyze complex application and business operational issues.
VIII. Any Additional/Important Information
- The database developer will be additionally be responsible for the following tasks:
- Analyzing requirements 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