Senior Database Specialist

CF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) provides professional services and technology solutions that deliver beneficial impact in areas critical to the world's future.

ICF seeks a Database Specialist. In this role, you will work with a client at their site and will collaborate with Data warehouse & BI teams to help build the Enterprise Data Warehouse. The role will evolve as you gain expertise and there will also be occasional local travel for client meetings.

• Assists with system analysis and data analysis tasks required to build the Enterprise Data warehouse.
• Review and evaluate business specifications to determine their feasibility, implementation, and compatibility with current systems and architecture standards
• Work with multiple stakeholders to understand the business processes, analyze the operational systems and correlate the relevant data entities/attributes.
• Participate in full life-cycle development activities
• Ability to take high level business/functional requirements and break it down to detailed technical requirements
• Identify data quality and integrity issues. Provide resolution recommendations after performing in depth analysis of issues
• Create necessary automation scripts to re-use analytic suites
• Develop deliverables including detailed documents for all analysis activities. This will include source data mapping with business definitions and other relevant metadata.
• Use data modeling tools for documenting and publishing data dictionaries. Work closely with the data architecture team.

• BS degree in Information Systems or related field
• 5+ years of data analysis
• 3+ years of experience in a business systems analysis role
• Demonstrated strong SQL experience for data manipulation
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS’s like Sybase, MS-SQLServer and Oracle
• Experience in a data warehousing environment
• Experience requiring the ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects to meet goals, deliverables, and deadlines

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience showing strong critical thinking and problem solving skills paired with a desire to take initiative
• Organizational skills and customer service focus
• Experience working collaboratively and cohesively in a team environment Ability to think creatively to resolve complex problems
• Clear and professional communication skills
• Good know-how connecting structured and unstructured data
• Good know-how of common ETL techniques for data integration and transformation
• Familiarity with tools like SAS, OBIEE, Talend, PL/SQL
• Agile experience preferred
• Federal Experience preferred
• Flexible and Comfortable with uncertainty in requirements etc. in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
• Team player, strong organizational skills, and the ability to multi-task