Senior Database Developer

At REI Systems, our work makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every day. Do you want the opportunity to contribute, grow and learn every day? Enjoy working with amazing people? Being on a team that shares your values, matches your energy and truly impact people’s lives? If you are solution oriented, thrive in a fast paced, agile environment then come work for a company that was ranked 7th in the 2016 Washington Post Top Workplaces.

You can be an Data Analyst anywhere, but at REI your analysis is transformational. Influence the solution!

"REI Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minority/Female/Disability/Vet)"

As a Sr Database Developer, you will:

• Other similar professional duties maybe assigned as needed

• Perform hands-on work with data analysis, validation and quality assurance, while working as a full-time on-site staff at the customer facility. Candidate must have at 5-7 years of professional and proven experience in a related role. 
• Understand the customers’ business processes, the underlying data, and cross-cutting data sets for various systems within the customers’ business unit. 
• Understand the business needs and using the knowledge of the data, prepare meaningful reports using datasets available through existing systems and datasets external to the customer unit.
• Support dissemination and distribution of data and reports.
• Perform data validation and quality assurance. 
• Ensure data integrity between the different cross cut reports produced through the system. 
• Research and identify root cause/data issues.
• Support data analysis to study outliers and to understand the health of new programs within the customer unit.
• Ensure timely delivery of reports, and manage conflicting priorities and customer expectations.
• Perform periodic check-ins with the customer unit management for status and feedback.
• Perform periodic status check-ins with the internal delivery/program manager.
• Identify gaps in the system and communicate them to the solution project leads/program manager.
• Document the unmet data needs of stakeholders for reporting purposes.
• Expertise in one or more areas of Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Decision Support or Business Analysis is required.
• Federal government experience is strongly preferred.

Other similar professional duties maybe assigned as needed

Required Skills

• 5 to 7 years of professional and proven experience in a related role
• Expertise in Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL databases 
• Expertise in using Tableau, SQL, and Excel to build analysis to derive insights from data
• Experience in data retrieval, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using visualizations
• Proficiency in MS Excel with knowledge of Pivot Tables, VLookup, and other advanced functions
• Experience in Hadoop, Big data related technologies
• Message Queueing/Broker (e.g. Amazon SNS, SQS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
• Experience and/or understanding of JIRA
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Decision Support, Business Analysis
• Federal government experience is strongly preferred
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Desired Skills

• Experience delivering solutions using Agile delivery practices
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with revision control systems such as Git/Github
• Experience enhancing the performance of high-traffic sites
• Experience supporting the US Patent and Trademark Office

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, and Statistics or related field is required.
Expertise in one or more areas of Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Decision Support or Business Analysis is required.

Employer will accept a suitable combination of education, training or experience

Work Authorization: US citizenship or work visa required