Data Engineer

Overview

Data Engineer - Lead:
Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy. Documents and communicates database design. Evaluates and installs database management systems. Codes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms. Builds windows, screens and reports. Assists in the design of user interface and business application prototypes.

Participates in quality assurance and develops test application code in client server environment. Provides expertise in devising, negotiating and defending the tables and fields provided in the database. Adapts business requirements, developed by modeling/development staff and systems engineers, and develops the data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for an application. At more experienced levels, helps to develop an understanding of client s original data and storage mechanisms.

Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization. Determines how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model.

• Establishes database systems, standards, guidelines and QA for database deliverables (conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy).
• Documents and communicates database design; evaluates and installs database management systems.
• Writes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms.
• Builds windows, screens and reports; assists in designing user interfaces and business application prototypes.
• Participates in quality assurance and develops test application code in a client-server environment.
• Provides expertise in devising, negotiating and defending the tables and fields in the database.
• Adapts business requirements from modeling/development staff and systems engineers to develop data, database specifications, and table/element attributes for applications.
• As experience increases, develops understanding of client s original data and storage mechanisms; determines data storage suitability and optimum storage organization; determines how tables relate and how fields interact within a relational model.

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 8 or 9 years directly relevant work experience.
• Note:
  
  One of the following alternatives may be accepted:
  PhD or Law + 6 yrs;
  Masters + 7 yrs;
  Associates degree + 9 yrs;
  High School + 10 yrs.