Oracle Developer

The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively use a WorldClass Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include webbased application development and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.

This position will require a qualified Developers to take the lead in the following tasks:

Rationalizing and mapping data between transactional and dimensional database models/systems

Development and maintenance of data dashboards reports and data visualization tools and products

Working closely with the database and system administrators to optimize stored procedures views and the overall performance of the data warehouse system

Working in collaboration with vendors and other agency staff to design develop and manage the MDE data portal to publish data both internally to schools and agency staffs and externally to the public

Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications

Ability to work independently and cooperatively as part of a team.

Ability to work under severe time constraints.

Must possess analytical and complex problemsolving skills

Extensive experience with development of frontend reports dashboards and data visualizations using Oracle tools such as Reports Forms

Experience with web site programming (HTML and XML) and JavaScript

Thorough understanding of data warehouse design hierarchies such as star and snowflake schemas

Use of ALM tools for work item management version control code analysis and testing

Broad and extensive knowledge of the software development process and its technologies

Strong knowledge of Java C and PL/SQL

Familiarity with continuous integration

Understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR) its limitations weaknesses and workarounds

Experience with student information management systems and K12 data and reporting is a plus

PL/SQL

Oracle

Version Control tools

Code analysis

Testing

Java