Senior Database Engineer/Architect (Postgres, Linux)

["Neel Phadnis" <neel.phadnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 

Senior Database Engineer/Architect (Postgres, Linux)

 

Efficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a senior level engineer to develop and enhance reports and underlying data warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA, office. Data is critical to our business, and this position is an opportunity to take a high-impact role working on reporting, schema design, ETL, and performance tuning. This is a unique opportunity for those interested in helping define and evolve the data warehouse design and strategy. You will primarily be a hands-on contributor with ownership of design, implementation, and deployment. You will be responsible for improving and organizing the current architecture for better performance and scalability, and help set the direction and define transition plans.

 

Core Responsibilities

 

·         Design, implementation, and deployment of reporting functionality and data warehouse

·         Enhance functionality, performance, and scalability

·         End-to-end responsibility of reporting data quality and availability

·         Work with Product Management and others in team to distill requirements into practical solutions.

·         Help set the data warehouse direction and define transition plans, and drive necessary changes.

 

Minimum Job Qualifications

 

• 5+ years experience in high volume data environments.
• Direct hands-on experience designing and building  scalable warehouse solutions with stringent data quality and availability requirements from ground up
• Proficiency in:
• data warehouse design,
• data modeling,
• ETL processes,
• SQL and tuning,
• reporting.
• Hands-on with excellent programming and troubleshooting skills; high technical proficiency and ability to earn team’s respect.
• Productively work in Postgres/Linux environment
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills conducive to team development
• Good communication skills - able to articulate technical decisions and produce excellent technical specs.
• Detailed oriented, quality conscious, with an eye toward simplicity
• Thrive in a startup environment - learn and become productive quickly and meet team goals, can-do attitude, able to do what it takes to deliver. Desire to take on new challenges and deliver.
• 8+ years experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related areas (Master's degree preferred)

 

Highly Desirable

• Application development experience in Java, Java App Servers (preferably Tomcat) and J2EE.
• Experience in hosted software, search engine marketing, and/or e-commerce.
• Experience in Python programming, Web Services (SOAP)

 

 

Efficient Frontier is an equal opportunity employer.

 

Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.