We are a digital-first technology services firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. We specialize in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 28 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Strong MySQL experience enabling platform growth and scale.
• Advanced expertise and experience on schema design improvements with both tactical and strategic lens to ensure data ingestion / extraction for our warehouse database, supporting current BI team, external reports, and operations teams.
• Experience working in collaboration with development teams to optimize schema and queries for new features before they go out into production.
• ETL and Data Lake management expertise required.
• Knowledge and experience related to migrations from MySQL to PostgreSQL would be a definite PLUS.
• Python/Go experience is not mandatory but highly desirable, to support current ETL ingestion scripts.
• Proactively identify improvements to continually improve platform and data resiliency.
• Analyze system problems including root cause determination and manage any needed recovery process to ensure a quick restoration of service without loss of data.
• Strong attention to detail in all daily activities.

Qualifications and Skills

• Diploma / Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• You've had years of experience in one of the following areas of expertise: Database administration, Data Engineering, ETL data load and ingestion, data classification and normalization, SQL and schema optimization.
• Expertise in Linux system administration, web servers, and networking would be an asset.
• Kubernetes experience would be an asset.
• Experience with implementation of database security hardening best practices, including collaboration among cross-functional teams to encourage safe and zero-trust access.
• Experience with various AWS services such as Lambda, Redshift, DMS
• Experience with various Apache tools such as Airflow, Superset, Kafka
• Experience with other cloud vendors with similar technologies is a PLUS
• A deep curiosity that motivates you to keep on top of technical trends and informs your ability to suggest tools and approaches to interesting problems.
• The ability to empathize with and communicate clearly to all the other parts of the business.