Data Analyst :

Summary :

- Works cross-functionally with Software Development, QA, Accounting, and Analytics to proactively monitor for issues, track organizational progress, and solve problems.

- Ideal candidate is fluent in SQL and has some exposure to No SQL platforms such as MongoDB.

Responsibilities :

- Establish pro-active monitoring of production databases and related systems to identify capacity and performance issues.

- Determine ways to improve performance by suggesting configuration changes, tuning, indexing, query changes, etc.

- Assist in optimization of queries, stored procedures, and their usage to maximize performance while satisfying business requirements.

- Design, plan, implement, and test automated backup and disaster recovery processes.

- Coordinate with other technical and business teams to solve database level issues.

- Support Agile development efforts balanced with longer-term continuity, stability, and enterprise operational issues.

- Implement, and administer automated ETL processes for data cleaning, archiving, and warehousing.

Key Qualifications :

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.

- At least 2-3 years experience with SQL Server.

- Understanding of relational database design principles.

- Experience with enterprise database administration and high-availability production environments

- Demonstrated experience in working on root cause analysis for SQL Server database issues.

- Exposure to both transactional/operation database design and/or data warehouse design

- Ability to apply deep knowledge of DB platforms to optimize DB query performance

Preferred Experience :

- Exposure to variety of alternate SQL and no SQL platforms.

- Programming and/or scripting experience in bash, python, C-family languages, or PHP

- Experience with ETL tools such as AirFlow, or <DBT>.

Characteristics :

- Focused and self-driven: able to take on high-level and/or ambiguous assignments, break them down into do-able steps, ask the right questions, set realistic expectations, and drive for results.

- A cooperative team-player that leads pro-actively through reason and respect for the viewpoints and experiences of others.

- Able to evangelize theories and principle of best practice, yet aware of their practical limitations in real-world situations.

- Remains unbiased toward any specific vendor or technology choice; is more interested in results than personal preferences.

- Is motivated by long-term results.

- creative problem solver who can work in a fast-paced, dynamic, cross-functional environment.

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