SQL Database Engineer

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What you’ll be doing...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager. You will work in a hands-on capacity within the Reveal Tribe group and will be responsible for engineering and maintaining features and components for our award winning SAAS offering, Reveal.

We are seeking a Database Engineer with SQL Server experience to join our engineering team responsible for delivering our Fleet Management product Reveal. This role is part of our expanding R&D team based in Dublin. Verizon Connect is currently decoupling large elements of our existing product into smaller, shared databases housed within AWS. The candidate will work closely within a team of C#, Mobile and Angular developers and will play an important role in contributing to the future technical state of our world class SAAS product.

• Participate in product feature implementation, both independently and in cooperation with your cross-functional team.

• Implement changes and new features in a manner which promotes efficient, reusable and performant code.

• Liaise with product stakeholders and other teams in the organization to complete the projects on time and to the highest quality standards.

• Participate in peer code reviews, manage criteria applied during code reviews.

• Investigate technical issues during the full development lifecycle.

• Provide effort estimations for the individual and team assignments.

• Develop efficient, reusable and performant T-SQL code.

• Identify and address performance issues.

• Participate in the transition of our existing datastores to AWS platform.

• Participate in code reviews and design workshops.

• Working closely with the DBA team to ensure smooth deployments of software updates.

• Work as part of a cross functional agile development team.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or relevant work experience.
• Experience in software development.
• Good knowledge and experience of SQL Server 2014+.
• Excellent knowledge of indexes, index management and statistics.
• Experience with and understanding of high volumes of data.
• Experience with GIT or other revision control system.
• Professional experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes - ideally Kanban or scrum as a minimum.
• Experience with systems analysis and design, and working with senior engineers and architects.
• Experience working in larger project and team environments with product, application support and operations teams.
• Quality and results focused - with experience in project delivery individually or as part of a team.

Even better if you have:

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication skills both written and oral.
• Ability to anticipate problems and take decisive action, giving regard to the impact on other project teams, development partners and stakeholders.
• Ability to comprehend complex business and technical scenarios.
• Excellent SQL and T-SQL coding ability.
• Experience with Large/Enterprise scale solutions.
• Experience of SSIS or other data transfer tools.

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