Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Database Developer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Menlo Park, CA.
Responsibilities :
- 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
Required Skills :
Bachelor's degree (pref. Computer Science or related degree) or equivalent experienceyears' experience in : Oracle, database design, sql tuning, pl / sqlHighly self-motivated, with the ability to complete tasks with minimal guidance, and to learn independentlyExcellent analytical and problem solving abilitiesExcellent English verbal and written communication skillsExcellent teamwork and collaboration skills in working in a cross-functional team comprised of Product Analysts, QA, UAT, Development and PMO membersAbility to juggle tasks and priorities to meet rapidly changing deadlinesMust work with System Architects to review / approve program and subsystem designsProficiency in UNIX / Linux and Microsoft Windows distributed computingBasic skills with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents