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The ideal candidate will have the skills specified below:
The ideal candidate will have the skills specified below:
- Highly skilled at database design, installations, and conversions, specifically with SQL Server databases.
- Document data flows, API specifications, and database operational procedures.
- Implement best practices for efficient data access, transactions, and database interaction within a Java (Back End) and Angular (Front End) environment.
- Skilled data dictionary analysis and design, and data model analysis and design.
- Responsible for database backup and recovery procedures, access security and database integrity, physical data storage design, and data storage management.
- Engage in ongoing process improvement.
- Skilled data dictionary analysis and design, and data model analysis and design.
- Experience and knowledge in supporting the application system development life cycle.
- Responsible for data dictionary backup and recovery.
- Responsible for the definition of standards of data dictionaries.
- Perform performance tuning.
- Monitor database performance and space requirements.
- Schedule and monitor end-of-day data warehousing jobs.
- Evaluate and perform database upgrades.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Logical data modeling techniques.
- Knowledgeable in data analysis and database management techniques.
- Execution of all responsibilities with little direct supervision of the Team Lead.
- Author scripts to perform backup, restore, and monitoring tasks.
- Identify and track issues, risks, and action items.
- Experience in Java solution development in the Windows environment.
- Experience with Java Persistence API (JPA), SQL, RESTful web services, and JUnit.
- Experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs for seamless integration.
- Strong experience with SQL Server Database.
- Experience with IBM DB2 database will be desired
- Performance Engineering: Actively analyze, tune, and optimize the slow SQL queries and stored procedures impacting application performance.
- Java Development: Design, implement, and unit-test high-performance data access layers (JPA/DAO/JDBC) and data-centric microservices using Java.
- Code Review: Perform rigorous code reviews focusing on ORM usage (JPA/Hibernate), transaction management, and efficient data retrieval to prevent common database anti-patterns (like N 1 queries).
- Support Ongoing Projects: Monitor, diagnose, and quickly resolve critical issues related to database locking, deadlocks, and high resource utilization.
- Schema Design: Collaborate with application developers to design and document optimal physical and logical database schemas (DDL) for new features.
- Monitoring & Health: Review daily database health reports, manage routine maintenance (e.g., statistics updates), and ensure replication health.
- Automation: Develop and maintain custom tooling or scripts (often in Java or scripting languages) to automate repetitive DBA tasks and enhance operational monitoring.
- Deployment & CI/CD: Ensure that database migrations and application changes are safely deployed through CI/CD pipelines following governance and testing standards.