Senior Database Engineer (Oracle SB)

Position purpose:
We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to work in a team of database engineers building highly scaleable database systems to support a highly transactional, high availability, website and associated products & tools for our partner, Betfair.
Betfair is the world’s leading person-to-person betting exchange, using a concept which is revolutionising the betting industry.
The successful candidate will have exceptional technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL Development.
• Creation of high performance SQL as well as PL/SQL and in-depth tuning of both.
• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates.
• Physical database design.
• Engineer feature and performance improvements, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines.
• Innovative technical design and creation of technical specifications.
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
• Code reviews, by and for peers.
• Technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.


Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications Required:

• Minimum 3 years as a software engineer
• 3+ years PL/SQL (preferred)
• 3+ years working in highly transactional ecommerce companies (preferred)
• 3+ years experience of working with OLTP systems (preferred)
• Experience of database performance analysis and design
• Expert in set based SQL as well as procedural PL/SQL
• Oracle 9i, 10g features
• Source code control (SourceSafe, CVS, Perforce …)
• Bug tracking systems (PVCS, TestTrack … )

Desirable:
• Knowledge of performance monitoring using in-depth Oracle features
• Oracle instance tuning
• Understanding of finance / transactional / gaming systems.
• Experience with JDBC


Key Skills and Attributes:
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self motivating.
• Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced.
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of the entire software design, development and deployment lifecycle.
• Enthusiasm for the software development process.
• Ability to integrate well with a strong technical team.
• Good English language skills.

About us:
Xoomworks is a professional services company focused on application, integration and managed services. Some areas that we cover are eGaming, Procurement, Spend Management and Finance.

Xoomworks was founded in 2000 by former partners of Deloitte Consulting who wanted to introduce a new style of IT services partner, combining the business consulting with technical consulting in order to successfully deliver solutions to large and mid-sized companies.

Culturally we combine the technical and business expertise of a Big 4 consultancy with the ethos and innovation of a small business.

We are looking for people who are interested in working with the latest hardware, latest technologies and latest development processes on mission critical application. We care about our employees and we invest in them.