Senior ETL Developer at Stamford Consultants AG

Location: Geneva

Description:
Stamford Consultants AG is a dynamic company specifically created to offer a fresh approach to recruitment. With over 20 years experience in recruiting personnel, we specialise in sourcing high quality technical and business professionals to fulfill demanding and critical business roles.We are currently looking for a Senior ETL Developer to join a team of developers working on a global project for out customer, an international bank based in Geneva.

Role & responsibilities:

• Analyzing source systems and creating mappings to the target database schema
• Optimizing ETL performance
• Identifying and managing data quality issues
• Prepare key project documents and technical specifications
• Provide mentoring to other developers
• Working with project teams to plan, design, develop, test, and implement solutions and/or enhancements to existing systems to meet current and future needs
• Collaborate with other teams involved in the ETL projects, such as Business Systems Analysts, architects, DBAs and testers.

Requirements:

• In depth experience with data analysis, modeling and design specific to a data warehouse / Business Intelligence environment
• Experience with the design of large scale ETL solutions integrating multiple source systems
• Good understanding of overall data warehouse design principles and best practices
• Experience as ETL developer using ETL tools such as Informatica / PowerCenter
• Proven experience with Oracle PL/SQL and/or Sybase/TransactSQL
• Ability to communicate design solutions to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Must be able to work independently and provide coaching and direction to junior staff
• Excellent communication and analytical skills required
• Ability to communicate with people in different sites in written and oral English
• Demonstrated experience working successfully on project teams

Nice to have:

• DBA expertise
• Experience with ESB architecture and technology platforms (e.g. Tibco)
• Understanding of SOA and Information Architecture concepts
• Leadership and project management
• Expertise in the field of financial / banking systems
• Good UNIX fundamental skills and experience
• Experience with one or more "best of breed" BI tools, e.g. Cognos, Hyperion

Languages:
English, French is a plus

Link

Lead Database Engineer

Background and Summary:
Veoh Networks is a new, innovative Internet television broadcasting system that is able to reach hundreds of millions of broadband-connected viewers throughout the world. Veoh allows content producers from major entertainment studios and television networks to independent video producers and enthusiasts to deliver high-quality, full-screen video directly to consumers without financial, geographical or capacity restrictions found in traditional broadcasting systems. This democratization of video distribution fundamentally changes the dynamics of television, creating unprecedented choice for consumers and a compelling marketplace for content providers and advertisers. Veoh is privately held and backed by leading technology and media investors, including Spark Capital, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Time Warner Inc. and Shelter Capital Partners. Veoh Networks is based in San Diego, California. Veoh Networks is based in San Diego, California with an additional development center in St. Petersburg Russia.

Veoh.com is in the top 100 websites worldwide and in the top 30 sites in the United States.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with DBA to implement web based reporting front-end.
• Drive implementation of infrastructure services to support logging, ETL and reporting.
• Work with business analysts to devise reports which will drive a variety of business decisions.
• Work with engineering team on event logging functionality and infrastructure to support reporting needs.
• Work with product development team on data driven features.
• Lead and drive improvements to our data systems.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience developing code to interface with high volume MySQL or Oracle databases
• Professional experience developing web applications with ASP.NET, JSP/Java, Python or Perl.
• Creative problem solver with excellent trouble-shooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to write clear, concise, robust, maintainable code on a tight schedule
• SQL language proficiency
• Understanding of SQL query plans and ability to optimize SQL queries
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent documentation skills
• Familiarity with open source or commercial database reporting software a plus

Link

Senior Access T-SQL Developer at DataFin Recruitment

Location: South Africa

Environment:

A Cape Town based company requires a Senior Access T-SQL Developer with 4 years MS Access, Visual Basic/VBA and T-SQL with SQL Server 2000 or equivalent (creating Stored Procedures, Views, Functions and Tables)

Duties:

• MS Access with VBA and T-SQL Software Developer for internal systems, delivering quality functionality to support the various business functions
• Deliver quality code that works first time, tested & bug free, and delivered within determined timeframes
• Adhering to development standards with emphasis on documentation of code, either inline or separate document
• Regular communication with Business Users and assist the Project Managers to provide accurate estimates (quotes)
• Assist with MS Access, VBA and VB code and peer reviews
• Assistance with hiring and training of new Access/TSQL staff
• Review all T-SQL code before deployment

Requirements:

• A tertiary education will be beneficial, specifically a degree or diploma in Computer Science or Information Systems
• 4 years MS Access 2000 or more
• 4 years Visual Basic/VBA
• 4 years T-SQL with SQL Server 2000 or equivalent (creating Stored Procedures, Views, Functions and Tables)
• Full project lifecycle
• T-SQL with MS SQL 2005 would be beneficial
• Financial systems experience would be beneficial
• .NET skills would be beneficial
• DBA skills would be beneficial

Attributes:

• Excellent problem solving skills
• Able to work well towards deadlines

Link

MySQL DBA at Facebook

Facebook is seeking a MySQL DBA. This position will be primarily responsible for managing and providing active support for MySQL production/QA/dev environments. The position is full-time and will report to the Director of Operations. The position is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managing MySQL in production/QA/dev environment including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, upgrades and schema changes, etc.
• Quickly diagnose server problems and employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers
• Assistance in database daily operation
• Assistance in developing MySQL tools using PHP/Perl
• Estimating project duration, effort, resource load and cost
• Creating processes to ensure data integrity and identify potential data errors

Requirements:

• Proficient in SQL and scripting languages (PHP, Perl)
• Experience with Database Administration
• Performance tuning experience
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with other staff members, to complete short and long-term projects
• MySQL experience preferred or ability and willingness to learn MySQL in depth
• Experience with replication a plus
• Oracle experience a plus

MySQL Database Administrator at YouTube

This position is available in San Bruno, CA.

YouTube, a Google company, is looking to expand its world-class Engineering team, which aims to solve the most fascinating and difficult problems in computer science and make a positive difference in tens of millions of lives every day. Google engineers are always on the forefront in the creation of new and exciting products in a number of areas, and play a key role in the development of one of the world's most impressive computing infrastructures.

YouTube is looking for an outstanding database administrator to play a major role in our cross functional support team.

Responsibilities:

• Tuning and debugging high performance, high availability databases.
• Reviewing and applying database schema changes.
• Creating a large number of replicas.
• On-call/work outside of business hours.
• Creating automation in a distributed database environment.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of experience as a MySQL DBA in a high traffic online/web environment; 5 years of total experience.
• Solid systems administration skills.
• Hands-on experience with replication.
• High availability experience.

Preferred:

• Python proficiency.
• Oracle DBA skills.

MySQL Database Administrator at YouTube.com

YouTube, a Google company, is looking to expand its world-class Engineering team, which aims to solve the most fascinating and difficult problems in computer science and make a positive difference in tens of millions of lives every day. Google engineers are always on the forefront in the creation of new and exciting products in a number of areas, and play a key role in the development of one of the world's most impressive computing infrastructures.

YouTube is looking for an outstanding database administrator to play a major role in our cross functional support team.

Responsibilities:

• Tuning and debugging high performance, high availability databases.
• Reviewing and applying database schema changes.
• Creating a large number of replicas.
• On-call/work outside of business hours.
• Creating automation in a distributed database environment.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of experience as a MySQL DBA in a high traffic online/web environment; 5 years of total experience.
• Solid systems administration skills.
• Hands-on experience with replication.
• High availability experience.

Preferred:

• Python proficiency.
• Oracle DBA skills.

Link : http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?lc=youtube&answer=61888

MySQL DBA at Facebook.com

Facebook is seeking a MySQL DBA. This position will be primarily responsible for managing and providing active support for MySQL production/QA/dev environments. The position is full-time and will report to the Director of Operations. The position is based in our main office in downtown Palo Alto, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Managing MySQL in production/QA/dev environment including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, upgrades and schema changes, etc.
• Quickly diagnose server problems and employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers
• Assistance in database daily operation
• Assistance in developing MySQL tools using PHP/Perl
• Estimating project duration, effort, resource load and cost
• Creating processes to ensure data integrity and identify potential data errors

Requirements:

• Proficient in SQL and scripting languages (PHP, Perl)
• Experience with Database Administration
• Performance tuning experience
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with other staff members, to complete short and long-term projects
• MySQL experience preferred or ability and willingness to learn MySQL in depth
• Experience with replication a plus
• Oracle experience a plus

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Link: http://www.facebook.com/jobs/#MySQL%20DBA