Sr. Database Developer

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group's shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

Sr. Database Developer

Ideal candidate will have 7-10 years of experience in similar role.

Senior database developers may also be involved in other aspects of software development, such as requirements gathering or testing. In addition, they often act as technical leads on projects, overseeing junior developers and providing guidance where needed.

The candidate must be a team player, willing to provide constructive feedback and guidance to other technical staff as well as contribute to the continuous improvement of our software development processes and approach.

Candidate would have a passion for technology and a desire to use technology to improve operations and customer/employee experience; Empathy and experience working with coworkers from diverse backgrounds and the ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner.

Position Responsibilities

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS technologies.

• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.

• Support our hosted applications on existing technology infrastructure and to help develop the strategy for our next generation efforts.

• Manage and maintain the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade and support of any SQL related software and hardware.

• Implement and support databases, storage systems, high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery solutions.

• Maintain SQL databases associated with production and non-production environments, facilitating accurate testing and deployment of internally developed applications.

• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.

• Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes

• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies

• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition

• Creating and Managing development / production databases

• Data modeling and design

• Database performance tuning

• Documentation of database systems

Skills required:

• Bachelor's degree or related experience in computer science, information technology, software engineering or a related field.

• Experience with relational SQL databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostGres.

• Advanced PLSQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.

• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.

• SQL Server Administration (SSMS, SQL clustering, Data Synchronization, Encryption, Partitioning, Performance and Security), T-SQL

• Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies.

• Strong Experience with SQL query performance tuning.

• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence and Gitlab.

Skills preferred:

• Experience with big data tools: Spark, Kafka, etc.

• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, MSK, S3, Fargate, RDS

• Working knowledge of message queuing and stream processing.

Come along on CMA CGM's adventure !

Nearest Major Market: Hampton Roads