Direct Client: Senior Database Developer @ Austin, TX – Hybrid – Only Locals

KSN Technologies, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

KSN Technologies, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Database Developer for a 10-month contract with hybrid onsite availability. The role requires strong database, data warehousing, and ETL expertise, with strict local residency guidelines.

You will partner with IT and analytics teams to design, implement, and tune enterprise data solutions, ensuring data integrity and accessibility across environments. Local candidates only, no visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with data warehouse development and maintenance.
• Experience in building data dictionaries and metadata management.
• Strong knowledge of database management systems and data marts.
• Familiarity with ETL tools and BI reporting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Enters and modifies production database programs to optimize performance.
• Directs teams to implement database changes and monitor impact on systems.
• Reviews programs, ensures data integrity, and supports accessibility standards.

Skills

Database management

Data warehousing

Data modeling

ETL tools

SQL

Star schemas

Data dictionary

Teradata

Oracle

PowerBI

Tools

Informatica

DataStage

Business Objects

Cognos

Hyperion

MicroStrategy

PowerBI

DataBase tools

Job description

Senior Database Developer

Austin, TX -- Hybrid -- Only Locals

10 Months Contract

Looking for the candidates who can work without any visa sponsorship.

Position will be 2 days remote with 3 days (Wed, Thurs & Fri) required to be onsite at the location listed above. Subject to change per the hiring team

Program will only allow candidates who are LOCAL TO THE AUSTIN AREA ONLY (Within 50-mile radius).

Please do ++not++ submit candidates who are currently out of state and are planning to move to Texas. Candidates must ++already++ reside in Texas.

Enters codes to create production data base. Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base. Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems. Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment. Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganises as needed. Performs data modelling and prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modelling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary. Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures. Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems. Assists with the installation of database software and with analysing, designing, and implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security. Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies. Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies. Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards. Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• | Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. |
• | Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
• 5 | Required | Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
• 5 | Required | Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
• 5 | Required | Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
• 5 | Required | Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
• 5 | Required | Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
• 5 | Required | Well-developed oral and written communications skills
• 5 | Required | Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• 5 | Required | Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
• 5 | Required | Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
• 5 | Required | Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
• 5 | Required | Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
• 5 | Required | GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
• 5 | Required | Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
• 5 | Required | Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5 | Required | Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL pe
• 5 | Required | Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5 | Required | Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
• 5 | Required | Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
• 5 | Preferred | Oracle Database experience
• 5 | Preferred | PowerBI report creation