Senior Database Specialist

ICF International

(Fairfax, Virginia)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About ICF International
CF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) provides professional services and technology solutions that deliver beneficial impact in areas critical to the world's future.
Summary
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.
Responsibilities
* 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.
Ideal Candidate
* 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

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