Senior Database Analyst/Architect

PENNEP is seeking a talented and dedicated Senior Database Analyst/Architect (SQL, SSIS/SSRS, PowerBI) to join our client’s dynamic team. The ideal candidate who has a deep experience with Oracle databases, data warehouses, retrieving and manipulating the housed data using ETL processing and complex SQL. The candidate should be able to quickly come up to speed on a complex database model, a database star schema architecture, and immediately contribute to development and/or support of Cognos reporting, complex SQL needs, business-requested reporting, extracts, loads, stored procedures, interfaces, ETL work, and an upcoming effort to upgrade our Oracle platform from Windows to Linux.

This individual will be working with one of our government partners who is in the process of modernizing their platform. The current database platform will remain and be heavily used. The candidate will primarily support our current platform with the intent to eventually move to expand support to our Azure based environment, where MS SQL Server is the current database platform. The candidate should also have experience with PowerBI, SSRS (SQL Server Report Services), and SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). Working in a very dynamic and fast-moving environment, the candidate will need to leverage strong problem-solving and analytical skills, organizational abilities, and attention to detail. The candidate will work with the client and team members to gather and validate requirements, validate designs, and develop database application solutions.

• Create, maintain, and tune complex PL/SQL queries and stored procedures
• Create and maintain existing SQL based custom reports
• Maintain complex data models
• Create and maintain interfaces between on-premise Oracle environment and MS SQL Server on the Azure based platform
• Review and interpret ongoing business report and interface requirements
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Analyze existing data structures and queries and develop/update reports, queries, data loads, and interfaces.
• Accurately develop database queries, reports, data loads/extracts in a logical manner from scratch.
• Create and maintain quality reporting deliverables using Microsoft PowerBI
• Create and maintain quality reporting deliverables using Microsoft SSRS
• Create new and maintain/tune existing T-SQL queries and procedures
• Create and maintain existing T-SQL based custom reports
• Create and maintain interfaces leveraging Microsoft SSIS
• Analyze existing T-SQL queries for performance improvements
• Review and interpret ongoing business report and interface requirements

• 7 years of experience as a Senior Database Analyst/Architect
• A strong SQL developer who can quickly come up to speed on an existing and complex SQL Server database underlying a leading financial based COTS product
• Extensive experience in all aspects of Oracle PL/SQL programming and query manipulation.
• Some experience working with a SQL Server database, MS Server Power BI, SSRS, and SSIS
• Extensive experience working with large sets of data and resolving data-oriented issues.
• Extensive experience in tuning queries for optimal performance
• Ability to work directly with business users to translate business reporting requests/requirements into a backend database design that clearly identifies database object impacts
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to investigate and identify query performance related issues
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on team’s success
• Experience with MS-SQL Server
• Experience with creating interfaces using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) ETL Tool
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject

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