Pentaho Developer (BI Skills)

Job Description

• Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of high quality software applications.
• Participation in design workshops, peer code reviews, unit testing, test-driven development and refactoring.
• Development of exciting new software applications using modern, best practice development techniques, design patterns and quality standards.
• Design, develop and maintain software functionality to an agreed time-scale and quality
• Aid development work by the testing of specific program changes
• Provide 2nd level escalation for customer queries
• Participate in both design and code reviews
• Document departmental procedures
• Document software changes
• Maintain the software build process
• Provide accurate estimates of development work
• Liaise with other departments and customers regarding potential or real support issues
• Liaise with customers to document requirements and produce specifications

Job Requirements

Essential Skills And Experience:

• C# and/or Java
• Data Integration Tools, ideally Pentaho PDI
• Data Warehousing techniques, business intelligence/analytics
• RDBMS Databases, ideally PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server
• Demonstrable experience working in N-tier architectures
• Knowledge and experience of agile development methods

Desirable Skills And Experience:

• Degree educated
• Pharmacy, GP, or Healthcare domain experience
• Atlassian ALM toolset, including JIRA
• XML/XSD/XSLT
• NoSQL and Big Data (e.g. Apache Cassandra)
• Dimensional modeling techniques (e.g. Star Schema)