Sr. Application DBA / Database Developer
Location: US, MD, Rockville
Employment type: Contract
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Description: Cobb Systems Group is seeking a Sr. Application DBA/Database Developer to design, construct, and maintain database applications supporting financial professionals and asset management functions. The Sr. Application DBA/Database Developer will collaborate across stakeholders (product managers, project managers, business analysts, testers) to elicit and analyze requirements; design, implement, and maintain solutions; support testing and integration; and support maintenance needs. 
Requirements: Essential Job Functions:•             Meet with business stakeholders and other technical team members to gather and analyze application requirements.•             Design and build database solutions to satisfy application (business and technical) requirements.•             Perform data analysis where requirements may need to be derived from available documentation, interviews with users, and file specifications/samples.•             Implement database solutions using available database development tools.•             Provide written status reports to management regarding project status, task, and issues/risks.•             Think and act like a senior technologist who can be relied upon to operate independently and responsibly in a senior role.QUALIFICATIONSRequired Skills:•             10+ years as a hands-on technologist with a good mix of database design, application development and database development.•             Excellent data analysis, design and development skills built on top of 5+ years in data intensive applications.•             Strong in SQL and PL/SQL experience in an Oracle 11G and above UNIX-based environment.•             Strong experience in converting from XML to relational database and database modeling.•             Strong experience in performance tuning, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.•             Demonstrated experience in working with OLTP, data warehouses and data marts.•             Excellent analytic skills developed in the course of at least several years experience in working with business customers or product management to define requirements and system specifications.•             Ability to work well with a variety of constituents to forge consensus around data strategy.•             Must be willing to roll up sleeves to do the research necessary to define data and application requirements. •             Demonstrated experience in working with other database and application developers to lay out software architecture strategy.•             Substantial experience in both logical and physical data modeling.•             Must be familiar and stay current with industry best practices and trends related to data ingestion and database design/development.•             Experience in a variety of data delivery methodologies and best practices.•             Must be willing and able to support application/database development throughout the software lifecycle from requirements analysis and design through to implementation and maintenance. Desired Skills:•             SQL Server, SSIS•             My SQL•             Amazon Cloud
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