About Us:
Koofers, Inc. is a social learning company that is transforming higher education through student-driven, intercollegiate collaboration. Founded in 2008, Koofers empowers college students to help each other learn by providing open and free access to: course materials, class and professor ratings, study aids and more. Our headquarters is located in Reston, VA. For more information on our company, please visit our website at www.koofers.com.
Responsibilities:
The Senior Data Architect is responsible for creating the blueprint of the company information architectures. The Data Architect will provide expertise and direction in implementing Data Architecture practices, and will lead Data governance and planning activities in our fast paced start-up. The Data Architect will also conduct Data Architecture development activities to inventory and analyze the company's data assets, and research/evaluate/support adoption of Data Architecture best practices.
The Data Architect will also manage the design and development of the ETL environment, processes, programs, and scripts necessary to acquire data from source systems, clean the datasets, and integrate the data into the master database. This data arrives in a wide variety of formats, from scanned PDFs to XML, and includes disparate formatting. You will be challenged on a daily basis with hard technical problems, not all of which can be solved with pure database programming; many times you'll need to solve a problem outside of the master database.
Requirements:
* B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Management Information Systems, or equivalent
* Expert knowledge of database technologies and development methodologies (8+ years)
* Experience solving Data Conversion, Validation, Transformation, and Load (ETL) problems using technologies such as C#, perl, and RDBMSs (6+ years)
* Experience with at least two of the following programming languages (6+ years):
- C++, C#, perl, php
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Bonus Points:
* Experience with commercial-grade ETL software
* Deep experience database programming, debugging techniques, and performance tuning, preferably MySQL and/or Oracle 10g (8+ years)
Perks:
* Salary commensurate with experience.
* Stock options in a fast-growing Internet startup
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Source: Joel On Software