Senior Database Architect (Muncie, IN)

Job ID: 4116202
Company Name: The Kinsley Group
Job Duration: Indefinite
Required Travel: None
Position Title: Senior Database Architect
Industry: Computer Software
Location(s): Muncie, Indiana, United States
Posted: January 17, 2008
Min Education: BA/BS/Undergraduate
Min Experience: 3-5 Years
Job Function: Other
Job Type: Full-Time
Entry Level: No

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Contact Person: Heather Cooke
Email Address: HCooke [at] kinsleygroup.com
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THE POSITION

This position is responsible for the overall architecture and design of databases, data warehousing and data mart systems and services. This individual will provide the optimization of database management systems in all products to achieve data integrity and performance goals. They also are responsible for creating/refining the data architecture, standards, policies and procedures to drive all database design and maintenance within the Research and Development Division. In particular, the successful candidate will be responsible to:

1. Create and maintain data architecture for products that will increase the robustness, performance, and scalability of the applications. (Approximately 50% of job)
   • Design and extend the persistence management layer that insulates the database from the application layer
   • Contribute substantially to the system architecture, and take ownership of the design and development of the database layer
   • Work with system architects to improve existing OLTP (online transaction processing) model, transaction cost reduction, and increase the overall data throughput
2. Provide data architecture standards, policies and procedures to drive all database design and maintenance. (Approximately 40% of job)
   • Assist in developing coding standards for Java, JDBC, stored procedures, triggers, and logical and physical schema design
   • Participate in design and code reviews, documentation of design, and implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software
3. Establish an architecture roadmap for operational and business intelligence reporting, and provide guidance to the Product Management and Engineering Groups to assure compliance with the roadmap (Approximately 5% of job)
   • Tune SQL queries and database performance for OLTP and DSS (decision support systems) applications within the development environment
   • Provide input and participation to all defect analysis and defect reduction processes
   • Participate in the recommendation and implementation of process improvement action plans in conjunction with the Quality Assurance team
   
   

Competencies and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) in Computer Science or Software Engineering from four-year institution and seven or more years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in business, computers, management, or related fields are preferred.
• Strong technical leadership skills with extensive hands on experience.
• Proven innovative and analytical ability with extensive implementation skills.
• Expertise on DBMS kernels with distinguished achievements on database query optimization.
• Experience with design and construction of Data Mart and/or Data for business intelligence.
• Programming experience is required.
• Proven experience with object oriented design and development, using Java and JDBC.
• Experience with 3-tier e-commerce server side applications using EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans) or other component architectures (such as CORBA, DCOM, etc), Servlets, XML, SQL, etc.
• Specific experience with BEA/WebLogic (or other such application servers like WebSphere, ATG/Dynamo, etc.) is beneficial.

The position is based in Muncie, IN and includes a competitive base salary, profit sharing incentive, attractive benefits and a relocation package.

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Senior Business Intelligence Developer, Statistical Analyst (Seattle, WA)

The Washington Mutual - WAMU Retail Banking group is seeking an individual with strong reporting, analytics and data skills for the Incentive Management Team. This position supports our strategy to build a dynamic incentive analytics and information delivery which will include developing incentive process effectiveness metrics, identifying opportunities for incentive plan improvements through regressions analysis and hypothesis setting, developing incentive dashboards, implementing effective reporting tools, and other various quantitative analyses in support of tactical and broad strategic initiatives. This is a critical position for our Incentive Compensation Reporting & Analytics team and we are looking for candidates who have a strong technical background with a passion for data analysis, and excellent communication skills and willing to work with internal customers on reporting solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with business users and technical teams to develop critical reporting and analysis applications. Work on the synthesis of business requirements, acquisition and delivery of data to business users by working through all phases of development including data modeling.
• Create internal reporting processes and analytical reports to improve information resources available to top management.
• Perform complex data analysis to advise management on data interpretation on incentive plan performance; Conduct hypothesis settings and the formulation of new or revised components within an incentive plan by performing predictive analysis via statistical models.
• Work with business intelligence reporting tools to design and deliver self-service reports to end users.
• Be technically savvy to work directly with databases for designing data structures.

Qualifications

Expert Skill/Knowledge in the following:

• Statistical Analysis: SPSS and/or SAS
• Data Warehouse design techniques for data storage and retrieval
• Data Analysis
• Business Intelligence Reporting
• Documentation

Experience/Education:

• B.S, or higher degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related field or
• 5-8 years of Statistical Analysis & Modeling
• 3-5 years of Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse experience

To apply, email your resume with cover letter to lana.mccalmon@wamu.net

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Sr. Software Engineer, Business Intelligence (Mountain View, CA)

DESCRIPTION:

Do you enjoy being at the forefront of your technical field? We are searching for a talented, motivated individual - someone who has extensive technical skills; and will be a major contributor to a team that develops core tools used by our internal and external customers.

Join us in building the next generation business intelligence systems. Your role will be to help design and implement these mission-critical, semi real-time, enterprise-grade systems.

The Business Intelligence team is responsible for delivering key set of capabilities across all our high volume, high traffic applications. The intelligence derived from our tools helps internal and external partners make better informed decisions. The enterprise we are building is based on open-source components and off-the-shelf hardware, with the capability to cascade, and partition horizontally and vertically. It provides unlimited scalability, along with built-in fault tolerance and hot failover capabilities; mining, analyzing, and feeding real-time decision support systems.

Our enterprise runs on our own database replication system, recently open-sourced to bruce.codehaus.org.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 6+ years of hands on experience developing software systems
• Experience in and understanding of SQL and Unix.
• Must have good experience programming in Java. Candidates without Java must have strong C++ skills and a solid understanding of Object-Oriented design.
• Must have experience in data modeling.
• Strong knowledge of multiple RDBMS’s
• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
• “Ideal” candidate will have some experience with statistical learning

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Prior experience designing and developing BI platforms/tools
• Experience with dimensional modeling, data warehousing/data marts, ETL
• Experience with PostgreSQL would be helpful but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to understand real business problems and understand how BI should help solve those problems.
• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience

OUR SYSTEMS RUN ON JAVA, OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS, LINUX, and POSTGRESQL.

Connexus offers competitive salaries and incentives, a comprehensive benefits package, an exciting collaborative work environment, and outstanding opportunities for growth.

If this challenge is for you and you want to add to the success of our growing company, please submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@connexuscorp.com. Please put "Sr. Software Engineer-Business Intelligence" in the subject of your email.

Connexus is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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Senior Software Engineer, Search Analytics (Palo Alto, CA)

A9.com is looking for experienced developers to join our team in improving the quality and relevance of search. You will work on technology that powers search on Amazon.com and other sites for millions of customers every day. You will design and implement scalable systems that process, summarize, and provide a web interface to large volumes of user behavior data.
Besides possessing rock-solid software engineering skills and a passion for excellence, you will need to be a strong communicator and have a proven track record of delivering high-quality products. You will need skills in the following areas:

• machine learning using statistical techniques
• data mining and knowledge discovery in databases
• algorithm design and analysis
• engineering process, design and testing methodologies

You must have an advanced degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience. Domain expertise in the following areas are pluses:

• information retrieval
• OLAP and business intelligence
• large-scale customer behavior analysis
• artificial intelligence

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