Responsibilities

- Design and development of new application features from requirement specifications.

- Design and implementation of new database architectures, data access components and Web services.

- Maintenance of existing databases, data access components and Web services.

- Design and development of unit tests for new data access components, stored procedures and other components and services.

- Profile and optimize database access components and stored procedures.

- Contribute to the development of other software components and user interfaces.

Requirements

- Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree/Diploma.

- A passion for innovation.

- Ability to demonstrate good coding skills.

- Exceptional debugging and code/database optimization skills.

- 5+ years of experience as a software developer.

- Outstanding database design and implementation skills.

- Experience optimizing large databases containing 1 billion records or more and large text fields.

- Superior knowledge of MSSQL 2005-2008 R2 databases.

- Experience writing Transact SQL stored procedures.

- Significant experience with either ADO.NET Entity Framework or NHibernate.

- Experience designing and developing service oriented applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework.

- Expert knowledge of C# and the .NET Framework.

- Experience developing for Oracle 9i-11g databases.

- Experience writing PL/SQL stored procedures.

- A solid understanding of the software development process and best practices.

- Experience with WCF.

- Good knowledge of modern development processes.

- Excellent written and oral communication.

The following would be an asset:

- Java experience.

- Hibernate experience.

- Experience with SQL Full Text Search.

- Experience with Oracle Text.

- Good algorithm design skills.

- Experience with ASP.NET Forms and/or ASP.NET MVC Framework.

- Experience with WPF.

- C++ experience.

- Microsoft Certification: MCAD, MCSD or MCPD.