Associate Data Engineer

**The Role / Responsibilities**:
An Associate Database Engineer fulfils the following responsibilities with moderate to significant guidance of more senior team members.
- Interpret business requirements with the assistance of Business Analysts and more senior engineers.
- Implement and test database features (schemas, SQL, Stored Procedures) based on the requirements and the technical designs written by more senior team members.
- If assigned a DBA role, assist with database administration and maintenance.
- Comply with coding standards.
- Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to fix defects.
- Collaborate with build and release engineers to prepare packages.
- Help investigate problems reported by clients.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related major from a top institution, Masters degree is a plus.
- Experience with relational databases, familiar with NoSQL databases.
- Able to work well within the constructs of an agile development process, including SCRUM, Unit Testing, Continuous Build and Integration, etc.
- Willing to learn new technologies; capable of self-directed learning.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Works well in a fast-paced team environment; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with one or more relational databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, etc.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases.
- Experience writing SQL Queries
- Knowledge of Others: Jira, Rally, CVS, SVN, Perforce, Git, Jenkins, etc.