Data Engineer Lead
The NPD Group

Job Info

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Learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's. In addition, we offer a career filled with innovation and growth to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our team.

Position Overview

This candidate works with team on daily activities involving the design, management, maintenance, and utilization of databases. Provide leadership and drive strategy, standards, and processes for applicable database environments.

Location: Virtual

Experience and Education:

• 7+ years of DBA experience
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure maintenance of all databases and related technologies.
• Mitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases according to development plans and schedules.
• Assign personnel to various projects and direct their activities.
• Review and evaluate work and prepare performance reports.
• Project long-range requirements for database administration in conjunction with other managers in technology as well as business function managers.
• Develop and maintain ETL systems, both in T-SQL and with ETL Tools, such as SSIS.
• Advise on most efficient database, table, index, data type and other database object design practices.
• Ability to develop in, and administer successfully, all SQL Server services, including: SSIS, SSAS and SSRS.
• Provide the strategic direction of all hosted database architectures and assess the impact of all hosted product requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design and maintenance topics.
• Review and implement enhancements to systems and procedures.
• Resolve performance issues and root cause resolution.
• Ensure clear and early communication, in particular ensuring that the line manager and/or relevant parties are kept informed of progress, issues, and difficulties.
• Lead research into new or alternative technologies.
• Review and sign off recommendations for upgrades or changes to the back-office infrastructure environment.
• Engage with Technical Architects and other senior members of Development teams to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team, taking responsibility for the implications and impact of their design decisions.
• Responsible for maintenance and "bug fix" activities for existing database infrastructure and equipment.
• Undertake research into new or alternative technologies and make recommendations for upgrades or changes to the database infrastructure environment.
• Responsible for installation of new database infrastructure and equipment and monitoring its stability.
• Undertake thorough impact analysis of all assigned database infrastructure activities and understand the impact of work on database infrastructure systems and the business.
• Respond to issues and support calls in-line with relevant procedures, including security.
• Perform tests of upgrades and new database infrastructure and equipment.
• Monitor database operations and support maintenance activities efficiently in order to ensure minimal issues and incidents.
• Install new or upgrade database infrastructure equipment.
• Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Ensure all staff is provided with training and resources needed to perform their jobs to the most outstanding degree possible. Ensure all staff is provided with frequent feedback and coaching in order to meet and exceed individual and team performance goals consistently.
• Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvements through innovations.
• Empower the staff to be accountable and responsible for their own actions and decisions.
• All other duties as assigned.

Technical Skills:

• Strong written skills.
• Mentoring.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong understanding of database infrastructure, maintenance, administration, and design.
• Ability to complete root cause analysis on database-related issues.
• Ability to complete impact analysis on database-related issues.
• Strong problem-solving skills in multiple operating environments.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues that involve database infrastructure.
• Ability to complete database infrastructure installations.
• Ability to research new or alternative database technologies.
• Familiarity with Cloud (Azure, AWS and technologies associated with data warehousing and big data)
• Experience working with cloud database services from Azure or AWS
• Ability to complete database infrastructure installations.
• Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through the direct management of others.
• Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.
• Strong problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.

Competencies

• Exhibits intellectual curiosity about and openness to new concepts and solutions for clients, the industry and market. (Intellectual Curiosity)
• Shares insights from inside and outside NPD to stimulate greater innovation. (Innovation Management)
• Does the right thing - acts ethically and respectfully and upholds NPD's values. (Ethics and Values)
• Operates effectively in a matrix situation - navigates different interests and leads through influence and engagement of colleagues, not simply by authority of their own position. (Political Savvy)
• different parts of NPD to collaborate well. (Political Savvy)5. Switches altitude readily - knows when to adopt a big picture perspective and when to dig into the details. (Strategic Agility)
• Fosters speed and agility - strives for prompt, timely action while avoiding excessive pursuit of perfection. (Strategic Agility)

The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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