Database Programmer

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed. 

We are looking for a talented and experienced Database Programmer to join our team in Latin America. Bridgenext is seeking a database programmer who will be expected to work autonomously and contribute to several high-impact projects including architecting the database infrastructure to support our customer's data needs.

You will be working in CST business hours. You will be part of team which will have on-call duties outside CST business hours as well and you would need to respond to high-priority incident pager.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Enhance and optimize existing databases for peak performance
• Develop and debug stored procedures, views, etc
• Analyze database and see what queries were performing poorly and change the query and/or indexes to make it perform well
• Have good understanding of schemas, users, and permissions and make changes to them as per requests from development teams
• Have exposure to backups, testing, and regular database maintenance and be ready if there is any need to make changes to it
• You will be part of team having on-call duties and respond to high-priority incident pager
• Write up documentation and share knowledge with other engineers and product managers and interact with stakeholders across the organization to build data products
• Be a force multiplier on the velocity and quality of your team
• Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team
• Willing to learn and adapt quickly to changes and keep up with a fast-paced environment
   

Workplace: Remote based in Argentina

Must Have Skills:

• Be a subject matter expert and show ownership of database management
• 3+ years of practical experience building and supporting Postgres and Azure SQL databases
• Strong English communication skills
• Excellent SQL programming: writing, maintaining, and testing codes using an "outside the box" approach
• Extensive experience with query tuning and troubleshooting 
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing high-availability and disaster recovery programs 
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, and other command-line utilities
• Ability to participate in and contribute to code management in GitHub including actively collaborating in peer-reviews, feature branches, and resolving conflicts and commits
• Advanced knowledge in database administration, including experience with a variety of databases, cloud applications, and distributed processing technologies
• Adaptable to change and able to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong sense of responsibility with a bias toward action
• Comfortable self-directing and prioritizing your own work
• Ability to understand complicated problems and craft simple solutions that can be maintained by the rest of the team
• Be a good team player and respect fellow team members
   

Preferred Skills:

• Azure experience a plus
• Previous Database Migration and SSIS/ADF exposure a plus
• Terraform knowledge preferred
• Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB a plus
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed stream processing systems beneficial
   

Professional Skills:

• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong team and individual player
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Self-sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues
   

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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