Essential Skills

· 5+ year’s solid commercial experience of Oracle development under a 10g or 11g environment.

· Advanced PL/SQL knowledge required.

· ETL skills – Pentaho would be beneficial

· Any wider DB experience would be desirable e.g., Redshift, Aurora DB, DynamoDB, MariaDB, MongoDB etc.

· Cloud/AWS

· An interest in learning new technologies

Experience in tuning Oracle queries in large databases.

· Good experience in loading and extracting large data sets.

· Experience of working with an Oracle database under a bespoke web development environment.

· Analytical and critical thinking skills; agile problem-solving abilities.

· Detail oriented, self-motivated, able to work independently with little or no supervision, and is committed to the highest standards of quality for the entire release process.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Attention to detail. · Ability to work in a fast paced / changing environment.

· Ability to thrive in a deadline driven, stressful project environment.3+ years of software development experience

Desirable Skills

· Degree in Computer Science or similar.

· Experience with loading data through SSIS.

Experience working on financial and business intelligence projects or in big data environments.

· A desire to learn new skills and branch into development using a wide range of alternative technologies.

Responsibilities

· Write code for new development requirements as well as provide bug fixing, support and maintenance of existing code.

· Test your code to ensure it functions as per the business requirements, considering the impact of your code on other areas of the solution.

· Provide expert advice on performance tuning within Oracle.

· Perform large-scale imports and extracts of data.

· Assist the business in the collection and documentation of user's requirements where needed, provide estimates and work plans

· Create and maintain technical documentation.

· Follow all company procedures/standards/processes.

· Contribute to architectural design and development making technically sound development recommendations.

· Provide support to other staff in the department and act as a mentor to less experienced staff, including through code reviews.

· Work as a team player in an agile environment.

· Build release scripts and plans to facilitate the deployment of your code to testing and production environments.

· Take ownership of any issues that occur within your area to ensure an appropriate solution is found

· Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and share with team members and/or affected parties