6 Months contract in Charlottesville, VA

Job Description

Designs, develops, and manufactures precision, high-speed, real-time track inspection systems and associated decision-making software packages for the national and international railway market. We are looking for a Senior Database Developer to build, optimize, and maintain conceptual and logical database models.

Responsibilities: For this role,

• You should know how to analyze system requirements
• Design database solutions to manage large volumes of data effectively and securely
• Develop data pipelines for predictive analysis and data visualization using relevant tools
• As needed implement migration methods for existing data
• Ideally, you are excited by the opportunity to work with Big data Contract position with 6-month duration

Qualifications Required (Skills)

• BS in Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent and 5 Years relevant experience including 3 years of proven work experience in Database Architecture, Database Development, or similar skills.
• In-depth understanding of database structure principles
• Experience gathering and analyzing system requirements
• In-depth understanding of data management (e.g. permissions, recovery, security, migration, scaling, performance tuning, optimization, and monitoring)
• Hands on experience writing SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers
• Work experience with Database Technologies like MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, NoSQL and Hadoop
• Experience with AWS database services like AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, DMS, RedShift
• Experience developing and implementing database backup, archival procedures and disaster recovery
• Experience with ETL and related tools (Talend, Informatica, Snowflake)
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle for web and desktop applications
• Proven analytical skills and documentation
• Coupled with the technical skills the successful candidate will have strong verbal and written communication skills and problem-solving ability.

Qualifications Desired

• Masters in computer science or relevant field
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, D3.js, and R)
• Previous exposure to Geographic Information Systems
• Hands-on experience with Java or C#/.net