Act as Expert Database Architect working for NYS Information Technology Services on behalf of the NYS Department of Transportation to fulfill the duties as described below.
Duties
- Interact with Agency/business subject matter experts to understand business needs/requirements, Vendors of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products, and IT teams to determine and design application and system requirements.
- Design data infrastructure to extract and organize data for authorized individuals to access.
- Identify internal and external data sources, collaborating with business subject matter experts to determine their data storage and organizational needs and use the information to create and maintain data infrastructure.
- Participate in the entire Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) including debugging and configuring solution.
- Identify, recommend and implement ODI/ELT and ETL process and architecture improvements.
- Assist and verify design of solution and production of all design phase deliverables.
- Manage build phase and quality assure code to ensure fulfilling requirements and adhering to ODI/ELT and ETL architecture.
- Resolve difficult design and develop issues.
- Identify bugs when developers are not able to do so.
- Identify installation solutions for new databases
- Determine the requirements for new databases
- Publish and/or present design reports
- Identifying areas for improvement in current systems
- Coordinate with business, vendor and IT team members to reach project milestones and deadlines
- Audit database regularly to maintain quality
- Create systems to keep data secure
- Design and document all components of approved application solutions including system integrations.
- Write clean, testable code using advanced analytical functions.
- Test and debug including, but not limited to: perform system testing and development of testing plans.
- Review and refactor code including, but not limited to: performance tuning of existing code, code reviews, and suggest changes that will best fit the Agency/business needs.
- Deploy fully functional applications.
- Use a ticketing system to track and manage incidents, service requests, problems, changes, and release/deployment.