SQL Developer

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

This is an opportunity to work with an international offshore services company based in the London area.

The company currently uses a mix of commercial and bespoke applications to support the business and a vacancy has now arisen for an experienced and versatile SQL Server Developer with strong interpersonal skills to maintain and update existing applications and support the implementation of new systems. About 25% of the role will involve providing reactive support to issues encountered by the user community.

Role & Responsibilities

The successful candidate for this role will report in the first instance to the Business Applications Support Manager, but will also be required to liaise closely with the local ICT team and with the corporate ICT team based in the Netherlands and on occasion with technical representatives of third party application providers.

The main duties of the role are to:
  • Oversee and support all SQL Server databases and applications
  • Maintain and develop SQL Server databases and associated reporting tools
  • Implement application and system upgrades
  • Devise, test and deploy database application fixes and enhancements
  • Create new database reports and adapt/enhance existing reports
  • Plan and install new database applications and systems
  • Provide support to the user community
  • Liaise with colleagues in ICT to ensure databases and applications are operating effectively
  • Provide adhoc reactive support to the user community in the UK and Singapore when issues arise which cannot be resolved by non-technical business application support colleagues


Skills / Experience required
  • Educated to HNC/HND or degree level, ideally with additional technology-specific qualifications (e.g. Microsoft Certification).
  • Minimum 2 years' experience working as a SQL Server Developer/DBA
  • Specifically, a good understanding and experience of:
  • SQL Server 2008 database configuration and performance tuning
  • Database copy and replication
  • Data migration
  • MSSQL and T-SQL
  • Query optimisation
  • SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • Visual Studio 2012
  • Experience of working in a support environment with non-technical users
  • Experience of deployment processes/release management
  • Experience of source code control
  • Experience of defect management systems and processes


If you believe this is a role that best suits your technical skills and experience apply for this role with an up to date CV. Sthree UK is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Start date
04/2014
Duration
6 Months
From
Computer Futures
Published at
12.03.2014
Project ID:
677755
Contract type
Freelance
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