Senior Database Developer/Architect

Grapevine, TX

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical design/architecture and leadership across various internal technology initiatives and external client and business partner teams, leveraging, driving innovation, and pushing the boundaries of internal development, to bring the right technologies for the client to create customer solutions;
Interact internally with Ascend leadership, technology teams, account leaders, project leaders and externally with client contacts and business partners to assess functional marketing needs, consider strategies and options for solving sophisticated data-related challenges, and architecting advance solutions;
Support necessary business cases and project plans, provide key technology insight to correctly identify best solutions, technologies, future developments and technology trends to service clients and Ascend;
Primarily responsible for the following:
Leading the development and maintenance of highly sophisticated marketing and analytics databases;
Conducting deep data analysis using advanced statistical tools and data modeling;
Designing and building extracts;
Transforming and loading (ETL) scripts;
Designing ETL processes;
Maintaining process and system documentation;
Conducting application unit testing;
Resolving problems to support client programs;
Identify data, software and hardware development needs and select the right approach for such development (internal/external), as well as lead the actual development; and
Identify potential technologies to minimize current cost, in conjunction with other technology teams in the company.

Minimum Education/Experience Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field of study;
6 years of progressively responsible and related experience in each of the following:
Database design;
Database optimization;
Installations;
Conversions;
Business systems architecture;
Application and understanding of performing extract;
Transform and load (ETL) processes;
Database platforms and tools;
Analytics and modeling tools;
Languages and frameworks; and
SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Node.js, R, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
Requires less than 10% travel to client locations; domestic only.
Experience may be gained concurrently.