SQL Developer at Confluent Health in Louisville, Kentucky

Job Description:

Position Summary:
SQL Developer will be responsible for designing databases and ensuring their stability, reliability, and performance. This position will also work with Data Engineers optimizing data flows and SQL statements as necessary, as well as establishing best practices. The SQL Developer will help solve database usage issues and come up with ideas and advice that can help avoid such problems in the future.

Essential Functions:

• Write and optimize SQL statements to store, sort, and retrieve data


• Design and build data architecture inside data warehouse


• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases


• Prepare documentation and specifications


• Handle common database procedures such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.


• Profile server resource usage, and optimize and tweak as necessary


• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders


• Gather requirements and specifications from end-users

Non-Essential Functions:
Must possess the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management, employees, and outside contacts
Possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action

Qualifications/Skills:

• Strong proficiency with SQL and it’s variations among popular databases


• Experience with some of the modern relational databases


• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements


• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases


• Capable of configuring popular database engines and orchestrating clusters as necessary


• Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications


• Capable of troubleshooting common database issues


• Highly organized and self-motivated with the ability to prioritize projects and meet deadlines

Benefits:

Competitive salary, PTO, Holiday Pay, Maternity Leave, 401(k) with company match, health, dental, vision, insurance and much, much more! 

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