DESCRIPTION:
Duties: Design, develop and implement software solutions. Solve business problems through innovation and engineering practices. Involved in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including analyzing requirements, incorporating architectural standards into database design specifications, documenting specifications, translating technical requirements into programmed application modules, and developing or enhancing terraform modules. Identify or troubleshoot database related issues. Take active role in peer reviews to ensure solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications. Assist with design reviews by recommending ways to incorporate requirements into designs and information or data flows. Participate in project planning sessions with project managers, business analysts, and team members to analyze business requirements and outline proposed solutions. Build scalable highly resilient databases. Drive database backup and recovery strategy. Continuously tune the databases for optimum performance. Automate database-engineering activities to reduce toil.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or as Software Engineer, Database Administrator, Cassandra Database Administrator, or related occupation. The employer will alternatively accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study plus 7 years of experience in the job offered or as Software Engineer, Database Administrator, Cassandra Database Administrator, or related occupation.
Skills Required: This position requires five (5) years of experience in the following skills and technologies: database engineering and administration in RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies; Developing and automating large scale and high performing database systems including Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and distributed database systems including Cassandra to drive and improve product experience; Designing resilient, always on, performance database systems; Backup and disaster recovery solutions; Public Cloud database engineering in Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and distributed database systems including Cassandra. This position requires five (5) years of experience in Linux, shell scripting, and Terraform (iaC); Performing exploratory data analysis within large enterprise databases to extract, clean, transform, and load data; performing data manipulating, data structuring, data design flow; database schema design and query optimization using programming language including SQL and Python; Database client connectivity tools including DBeaver, PGAdmin, IDE, PSQL, and CQL. This position requires two (2) years of experience in CockroachDB to drive and improve product experience.
Job Location: 8181 Communications Pkwy, Plano, TX 75024.