Database Architect Expert

NYS Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking a Database Architect Expert

Day to Day task include:

• Interact with Agency/business subject matter experts to understand business needs/requirements, Vendors of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products, and IT teams to determine and design application and system requirements.
• Design data infrastructure to extract and organize data for authorized individuals to access.
• Identify internal and external data sources, collaborating with business subject matter experts to determine their data storage and organizational needs and use the information to create and maintain data infrastructure.
• Participate in the entire Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) including debugging and configuring solution.
• Identify, recommend and implement ODI/ELT and ETL process and architecture improvements.
• Assist and verify design of solution and production of all design phase deliverables.
• Manage build phase and quality assure code to ensure fulfilling requirements and adhering to ODI/ELT and ETL architecture.
• Resolve difficult design and develop issues.
• Identify bugs when developers are not able to do so.
• Identify installation solutions for new databases
• Determine the requirements for new databases
• Publish and/or present design reports
• Identifying areas for improvement in current systems
• Coordinate with business, vendor and IT team members to reach project milestones and deadlines
• Audit database regularly to maintain quality
• Create systems to keep data secure
• Design and document all components of approved application solutions including system integrations.
• Write clean, testable code using advanced analytical functions.
• Test and debug including, but not limited to: perform system testing and development of testing plans.
• Review and refactor code including, but not limited to: performance tuning of existing code, code reviews, and suggest changes that will best fit the Agency/business needs.
• Deploy fully functional applications.
• Use a ticketing system to track and manage incidents, service requests, problems, changes, and release/deployment.
  
  

Requested Qualifications:

• 84 months experience working with Agency/business subject matter experts to understand business needs/requirements, Vendors of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products, and ITS teams to determine and design data warehouse, application and system requirements.
• 84 months experience architecting, designing, documenting, and implementing data warehousing, enterprise application integration, and master data management.
• 84 months experience data modeling and designing normalized Data Warehouse environments for enterprise level applications; and, implementing those designs using Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Extract, Transform, Load technologies
• 84 months experience developing data integrations for heterogeneous systems and business intelligence using SQL (Structured Query Language).
• 72 months experience performing database comparative analysis for designing new transactional databases and data warehouses, as well as improvements in existing transactional databases and data warehouses.
• 60 months experience in analytical reasoning, computation, interpretation, and presentation of data to solve business problems.
• 48 months experience implementing systematic Data Error/Recovery and Cleanup procedures
• 24 months experience integrating with Kafka.
  
  

Work hours and location:

• Full time role with engagement length of 30 months
• Daily work hours: M-F any 8.5 hour shift between 7:30am and 6:00pm EST
• Physical office location: NYSDOT 50 Wolf Road Albany NY 12232
• Telecommuting options: 50%
  
  

Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.

Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.

All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Medical, dental, vision health benefits

Life Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)

401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.

Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).