Database Developer

Job Title: Database Developer
Job ID: 18489
Location: Dallas,TX, US
Full/Part Time:
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Line of Business:Epsilon

About the Opportunity
The Database Developer must have Oracle PL/SQL and UNIX experience and will design, develop, implement, maintain and support applications for hosted Database Marketing systems. The ideal candidate will have participated in at least one successful data warehouse project and has good understanding of ETL and relational database systems.

Responsibilities
Duties include:
- Working with account team on business requirements and functional specifications
- Identifying, designing and developing process improvements.
- Defining, designing and implementing approaches to perform initial loads and ongoing updates of the database systems.
- Transforming and loading data according to the business specifications.
- Coding and unit testing modules
- Executing system, integration and regression tests
- Performing enlacements and bug fixes as required
- Defining and executing data validation routines
- Supporting applications and performing production data loads
- Preparing applicable system documentation and operation manuals

Qualifications
Requirements:
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills
- Strong communication skills
- Capable of interpreting specs written by non-technical team members
- Experience servicing ad hoc requests
- Ability to carry a project from concept through deployment and ongoing production
- Familiarity with both OLTP and Data Warehouse environments
- Strong background with UNIX/Oracle platforms
- Knowledge of RDBMS concepts and best practices
- 3+ years development experience with Oracle (PL/SQL) and Unix Shell Scripting (KSH)
- UNIX tools such as editors, source code version control (CVS), etc.
- MS Office tools such as WORD, EXCEL, etc.
- Must be able to demonstrate proficiency with PL/SQL, common UNIX commands and UNIX Shell Scripting (KSH)
- Experience in a dynamic work environment
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) required

Pluses:
- Database Marketing industry experience.
- Address Standardization, Merge/Purge experience.

Compensation and Benefits
Alliance Data offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive selection of benefit options including 401(k).

Conditions of Employment
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of drug screen and background checks.

About Us
Epsilon is the industry's leading marketing services firm, with a broad array of data-driven, multichannel marketing solutions that leverage consumer insight to help brands deepen their relationships with customers. Services include strategic consulting, acquisition and customer database technologies, loyalty management, proprietary data, predictive modeling and a full range of direct and digital agency services, including creative, interactive web design, email deployment, search engine optimization and direct mail production. In addition, Epsilon is the world's largest permission-based email marketer. Epsilon is an Alliance Data company.