Senior Data Specialist

As a member of our R&D team, the Senior Data Specialist works closely with Architects and Developers to help articulate the future state of data in SunSystems. As we modernize the solution and continue to grow a microservices architecture, we will be exploring new approaches to data and this team member will have a strong voice in defining future state, weighing up data related decisions (e.g. SQL/NoSQL, data architecture). We are seeking someone with understanding of traditional SQL databases, but more importantly the successful candidate must be broad in their knowledge and experience and able to represent other data paradigms, best practise and innovation in data.
The successful candidate will work side by side with our existing engineers in our data team as we take the product forward into an exciting and innovative future.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes:

• Working with architects, engineers and others on the data team (both the SunSystems team, and the central Infor Data Services teams) to design/architect the data aspects of our future modernized product architecture.

• Providing a key point of database expertise for assisting our Development, QA, Consulting Services, Support and CloudOps teams in resolving internal and Customer issues.
  
  

• Designing and building out the data persistence aspects of our future SAAS product architecture, whether this be SQL / NoSQL, database per service etc.
• Upgrading Development and Customer databases, with the longer-term objective of having zero downtime (ZDT) upgrades.
• Ensuring privacy, security, performance, efficiency and high availability is designed in to our product.
• Working closely with scrum teams to complete data tasks alongside product development.
• Working with other engineers on customer escalations where data is a factor, to support the investigation and resolution of issues.
• Ensuring that our data approach and data landscape is well documented and compliant with the Infor Secure SDLC and certification (e.g. ISO27001) requirements.
• Scope to also get involved in some other aspects of our work, in collaboration with our DevOps team, e.g. looking at efficiency of infrastructure, cost reduction exercises, high availability.
• Supporting product team and development leadership team to understand the current state of the product, it’s ability to scale, and to support future forecasting (e.g. of costs, infrastructure requirements, performance vs capacity.

What You Will Need:

Basic Qualifications

• Broad and deep experience of data persistence approaches in modern software architectures, gained in a software development environment.
• Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and ability to articulate and represent how different data paradigms can be used in different architectural approaches.
• Understanding of stateless architecture and the data-related aspects of achieving stateless system design.
• Understanding of approaches to data privacy, security, performance and availability.
• Experience working in an Agile (pref. Scrum) and iterative development approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Enthusiasm and ability to collaborate well with others, including remote teams
• Professional pride, drive and curiosity, a diligent self-starter that keeps up to date with best practise and keeps your skillset sharp.
• Strong problem resolution skills

What Will Put You Ahead?

• Preferred Qualifications:

• • Experience with SQL and NoSQL data designs, microservices data persistence designs in stateless architectures.
  • Experience with popular databases, e.g. MSSQL, Aurora/Postgres, DynamoDB
  • Experience of Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)
  • Experience with build technologies such as source code versioning (e.g. Git) and PowerShell scripting.
  • Experience working in AWS data persistence, and knowledge of DevOps fundamentals advantageous.
  • Strong ability to think through large abstract systems and processes, comfortable problem-solving in complex data environments.
  • Customer focused mindset, with the ability to understand end user requirements and consider how users work with software that you develop.