Data Warehouse Specialist

Austin,TX
DatePosted : 3/13/2024 7:15:33 AM
JobNumber : DTS101765982
JobType : W2
Skills: Analytical Ability, Benchmarking, Analysis and Reporting, Data Warehouse Development
Job Description
4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Enters codes to create production data base. Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base. Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems. Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment.
Requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary. Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures. Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems. Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security. Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies. Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies. Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards. Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.
Salary Range: 120K To 130K Per Annum
Additional job details and special considerations
M204 database experience desired but not required.
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

• Database Management: Strong knowledge of database management systems, Data Warehouse management, and decision support tools.

• Data Warehouse Development: Utilize extensive experience in the development, implementation, and maintenance of Data Warehouses and data marts.

• Business Objects and Data Dictionary: Apply 5 years of experience in business objects and building the data dictionary.

• Application Delivery: Utilize database access tools for effective application delivery.

• Analysis and Reporting: Demonstrate strong familiarity with analysis, planning, and management reporting functions.

• Communication and Teamwork:Possess well-developed oral and written communication skills. Exhibit strong teamwork and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders.

• Analytical Ability: Apply an extremely high level of analytical ability to solve unusual and extremely difficult problems.

• Benchmarking: Understand benchmarking processes and techniques.

• Data Warehousing Techniques: Demonstrate expertise in data warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures, such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models.

• ETL Tools: Utilize GUI-based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.

• Implementation Experience: Implement enterprise-class databases (e.g., Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) or similar technologies.

• Analytical and Reporting Tools: Implement analytical and reporting tools (e.g., Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, or similar tools).

• Data Warehouse Implementation Process: Have experience with the Data Warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database, and SQL performance.

Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of Oracle Database experience.

• SSRS report creation experience.

• Preferred experience with M204 database.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $120,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift