DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:      

·         Participate in custom development projects through the entire SDLC including requirements, design, development, testing, release, and maintenance.

·         Develop reusable tools, frameworks and components that simplify the environment and that can be leveraged to speed development and minimize maintenance requirements.

·         Champion the use of the practices defined in the SQL Server Database Development Standards throughout the department, and lead periodic efforts to refine and improve the processes.

·         Proactively communicate about, and coordinate activities with Business units, Production Control, Infrastructure and other members of the Systems Development team.

·         Perform sufficient testing to eliminate unintended downstream consequences, ensure data accuracy, and optimized performance.

·         Manage the data development toolset and environments to ensure operational performance and team productivity.

·         Follow SQL Server Database Development Standards to reflect industry best practices, tailored to the environment.

·         Expand technical knowledge by attending in-house and/or external courses, and lead technical system reviews.

·         Consult with business leaders to understand operational requirements & strategic direction.  Using the language of business, explain current information availability and limitations, potential options and high-level costs.

·         Provide QA support for internal projects as requested

These duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

ACCOUNTABILITY:        

The incumbent is directly accountable to ensure that all custom development meets development & database standards, is scalable, maintainable and well documented; the work product is accurate and meets end user requirements; and that the data management architecture is robust.

QUALIFICATIONS:

·         Bachelors degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and work experience

·         8+ years database development experience required; including data structure design/modeling, ETL coding, testing, and source control processes, deployment, and the creation of documentation; experience working with data warehouses and multidimensional databases required.

·         Significant experience with MS SQL Sever 2005 (T-SQL/SQL Stored Procedures), or Oracle skills (PL SQL), SQL Server Management Studio, ConnectDirect, PGP, NDM, Monarch, AttachMate, Subversion source control, job schedulers and/or other data management/data integration tools. C# experience preferred.

·         Experience working within development standards and a structured development process

·         Excellent written and oral communications skills required

·         Demonstrated project management skills

·         Ability to prioritize own work and the work of others, multi-task, and meet deadlines

·         Ability to work independently and as part of a team

·         Finance background strongly preferred