Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Required Skills:

Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools

Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired

Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary

Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery

Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions

Well-developed oral and written communications skills

Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult

Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques

Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output

Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models

GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.

Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.

Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.

Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL pe

Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.

Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.

Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities