Position: Database/ Analytics Engineer

Location: East Bay

THE COMPANY:

Verticalmove is partnering with the leading provider of online
customer community solutions. Their solutions let companies create
vibrant, popular communities that increase sales and customer loyalty
while decreasing customer care costs. Companies such as Dell,
Cingular, Palm and Nokia are using their solutions to increase the
efficiency of their customer support teams as well as reduce costs.

THE ROLE:

In this position you will play a key role in the definition, design,
and implementation of products. This team will be building out our
next generation database architecture and analytics offerings that
meets the company’s business objectives.

WHAT THEY LOOK FOR:

We will be looking for a pragmatic approach to data architecture, data
services implementation, analytics and data warehousing in combination
with experience in working with large data sets in a SaaS environment.

We will look for direct experience in the implementation of a data
warehouse on a significant, visible, product/project of a successful
enterprise SaaS offering, e-commerce, social networking, or consumer site.

Working in an agile environment, you will collaborate daily with
product managers, software engineers, technical writers, and QA engineers.

Extremely proficient in the design and implementation of a highly
scalable data warehouse, be a solid Java developer and comfortable in
both the database and data tier of the application stack.
You’ll have primary design and implementation responsibility of the
data warehouse and be in a supporting role in the application data
services layer. You’ll bring to the role a software background deep in
data management experience, and at least one principal data
engineering role in enterprise SaaS, e- commerce, social networking,
or consumer destination site, with significant knowledge of
data warehousing, large data sets and familiarity with data services
in multi-tier multi- tenant web architectures.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

-Assess requirements and estimate time and resources to create solutions
-Design, implement and deliver solutions that meet the product
requirements
-Evaluate and recommend technology solutions and approaches including
build, purchase commercial offerings, or leverage open source.
-Perform prototyping to validate implementation approaches
-Accurately identify, enumerate and estimate work tasks for project
schedules that you consistently deliver against on time
-Document solutions, schemas, and designs
-Promote data services and database engineering best practices within
engineering

SKILLS REQUIRED:

-At least 5 years’ commercial experience in database engineering and
data warehouse implementation
-Previous experience as the lead or core member of a team creating a
data warehouse including hands-on experience in the design and
implementation of an OLAP data model (schema, SQL) and ETL code and
process
-Strong skills in data modeling and OLAP including data warehouse best
practices
-Strong SQL skills with experience in database optimization techniques
-Working knowledge of standard data models (application, OLTP, OLAP)
and the appropriate application of each
-Familiarity with database schema diagramming and documentation
techniques (ERD’s, UML)
-Familiar with open source and commercial reporting, analytics, and
ETL tools (Jasper, Pentaho, etc.)
-Data layer experience in a multi-tier distributed web application in
either a SaaS or consumer website product
-Experience abstracting and implementing application data layer
services in Java in a multi-tier distributed application stack.
-Team player with excellent communication and organizational skills
-Self-starter that is results focused with the ability to work
independently and in teams
-Proven track record of producing high quality software against plans
and schedules that are being met consistently

Required Education:

B.S. in Computer Science or other relevant technical field

Contact:

collab AT verticalmove DOT com