Database Developer

Job Role: Database Developer

Location: Rockville MD (Hybrid one day on-site)

Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire

The ideal candidate for this position is someone who:

• Has excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills

• Works both independently and as a part of a team

• Is able to effectively collaborate with a development team, business analysts, and project managers

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide development and administration support for numerous MS SQL databases (or similar RDBMS) in different environments

• Develop stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers and views using T-SQL

• Utilize SQL Management Studio to develop or modify database indexes, schema modification, and unit testing

• Work with product owner or business analyst to fully understand business requirements and convert into appropriate technical solutions

• Contributing member of a cross-functional team in charge of delivering new features and capabilities on an iterative basis

• bility to digest existing SQL data models and modify or enhance as needed

• Provide accurate estimates of effort required to complete assignments

• Conduct code reviews to ensure all code passes organizationally-mandated code reviews and audits

• Proactively and regularly make recommendations for system improvements

• Complete assignments according to the established deadlines

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in database schema design, development and management

• Deep knowledge of relational database's objects, MS SQL Server Integration Services and SQL Scripts

• Familiarity with performance tuning and optimization

• Experience working in an Agile software development life-cycle

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data migration skills and working experience with ETL concepts and tools

• Developing/instantiating conceptual, logical, and physical data models, ER Diagram

• Understanding of Azure platform capabilities for the design and development of modern applications

• Experience in government health care programs