Senior Database Engineer (Oracle / PL/SQL)

San Francisco 3 days agoContractor External
1 / hr
• Analyzes complex information, designs, develops and troubleshoots database applications. • Reviews functional requirements and prepares and documents technical program, subsystem and system designs and solutions and their associated project task descriptions and effort estimates. • Uses both industry-standards and company's existing systems architecture, design techniques and development standards and reviews new work with others to ensure it complies with industry and company standards. • Documents technical requirements, program and subsystem designs, project task descriptions, effort estimates, and unit and integration tests. • Performs new development, maintenance fixes and enhancements to meet business requirements. • Assists other teams to troubleshoot application issues in production, quality assurance and other environments. • Develops, reviews, refines, uses and documents plans for both automated and manual unit and integration tests and/or assures unit and integration tests are successfully completed prior to production. • Tests programs for integration prior to production. • Mentors other software developers and IT staff members. • Documents resolutions to system problems. • Documents designs for system requirements. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experience. • 10+ years’ experience in: Oracle, database design, sql tuning, pl/sql. • Highly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independently. • Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities. • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills. • Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO members. • Ability to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlines. • Must work with System Architects to review/approve program and subsystem designs. • Proficiency in UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computing. • Basic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.