Database Engineer/Solutions Architect

Description

Report directly to the Director of IT Governance, PPM & Presort Delivery under the Vice President of IT Ecommerce Services and Governance.
Analyze, design and develop complex database solutions to achieve business requirements collaborating with Business Stakeholders.
Devise Strategy and Engage with Enterprise DBA s & Solution Architects, to define & execute Database & Analytics strategy for Presort.
Advise the IT Leadership team & Presort business in Data & Analytics space. Provide global thought leadership in Analytics solutions that benefit customers through the use of Dashboards. This takes the form of contribution to research and recommend solutions in Big Data, Predictive Analytics & Cloud Computing
Train & mentor other Front End, Database Developers and SQL DBAs.
Lead and administer SQL Server Databases in nonproduction environments.
Ensure security of systems which will include database backup/recovery strategy monitoring strategy to maximize availability of the database.
Support and assist development team in the testing, tuning and implementation of database applications.
Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical and business strategies.
7 or more years of Relational Database implementation, operations and/or solution deployment experience in a businesscritical, highavailability context in Microsoft SQL Server environment.
Technical degrees in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Mathematics; working knowledge of modern software development practices such as Agile methodologies and DevOps.
Experience with the MS Business Intelligence Stack SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
Experience in building and maintaining data systems and data warehousing using OLTP, OLAP, etc.
Analytics presentation layer expertise including Dashboards and Reporting
Operational Website/web services as well as traditional IT networking, operations, management, and security experience.
Knowledge of the underlying infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization.
Implementation and tuning experience of Databases including knowledge of Schema Design, Query Tuning and Optimization, and Data Migration and Integration.
Exposure to Snowflake or PowerBI cloud technologies a plus