Position Title: Sr. Consultant, Microsoft Database Architect

Location: Boston

Overview:

Burntsand is a business consulting and technology services company that designs, architects, and implements information technology to deliver business advantage, as defined by the delivery of Time-to-Value projects and an unmatched Customer Experience. Burntsand focuses on Mid-Market clients, including divisions of Global 2000 companies.

Due to our success in delivering high quality Microsoft technology solutions to our clients, Burntsand is expanding it's Microsoft Practice in New England. Your duties will include interacting with user, business and executive groups to help define the client's needs and translating those needs into a solution of value. As a partner to our client's we do what is necessary to help them be a success. This trait is one of the single most important characteristics you bring to the job as well as a great attitude toward teamwork and superb technical ability.

General Experience:

Microsoft Centric Projects - 4+ years
Overall development experience - 6+ years
Prior consulting / contracting experience

Specific Experience:

Database design and stored procedure development experience with Microsoft SQL Server (5+ years)
Direct project exposure to SQL 2005 and/or 2008; understanding of new capabilities especially with regards to .NET CLR, replication, reporting, ad-hoc query, and OLAP.
Experience with desktop and server reporting tools (SQL Server Reporting Services strongly preferred; Crystal Reports)
Experience designing data marts and analytics solutions (SQL Server Analysis Services strongly preferred)
Experience with one or more database modeling tools (Visual Studio, Erwin, Visio, Embarcadero, etc.)
Experience writing both simple and complex SQL Server Integration Services packages
Experience defining and documenting database best practices
Experience defining and documenting database performance and load testing best practices
Solid oral and written communications skills
Solid planning and organization skills

Additional experience desired:

Familiarity with Microsoft's Performance Point Server
Experience building reporting dashboards and integrating reports with SharePoint
Oracle (v8 and higher) and mySQL database design and development experience
Experience with MSFT Office BI products (e.g. Excel Pivot Table)
.NET development experience, exposure to ADO.NET and Web Services
Experience with delivering reports using SQL Notification Services

Some Duties as a SQL Server Database Architect

Responsible for:

Familiarity with Microsoft's Performance Point Server
Requirements Review
Database design and modeling (logical and physical)
Stored procedure development and tuning
Database performance tuning
Data dictionary definition
OLAP cube analysis and design
Report creation
Database replication
Defining and documenting database best practices
Defining and documenting database performance and load testing best practices

Certifications:

One or more of the following:

MCP
MCTS on SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005
MCITP on SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005

Soft Skills:

Diplomatic (all great consultants display this trait)
Technically adept (you have current skills and are able to deploy them across a variety of projects and solutions)
Communication (you can converse with customer and team members of all levels)
Committed (to your customer, your team and your project)

Burntsand is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We thank all applicants for their interest in advance, and advise that only candidates being considered will be contacted.

No telephone calls or agencies please.

While Burntsand appreciates the interest of all applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview