IS Database Developer

Database Developer
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
Full Time (37.5 hours per week) and Permanent role
Salary Circa £42,000 negotiable based on skills & experience
You also get to use our award winning benefits package
 
Supporting the business through technology and innovation thats when it hits home
 
As an IS team we are setting out to be more digitally focussed, using the latest technologies, whilst ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our strategy is set, our direction is clear. What comes next is to apply our skills and experience through brilliant team work to innovate, design, and implement systems that deliver real business value.  Weve got an excellent team foundation to build upon as our technical portfolio develops and expands; thats where you come in.
Here in Home Groups Information Systems (IS) department, we work collaboratively with our stakeholders to gather their requirements, to develop into innovative reporting solutions. Working with our architects and our technical build teams, youll contribute to the design, and build our data warehousing environments. Your work will help our data and reporting teams provide the business with the insights they need to make informed decisions.
As a business weve realised that our current reporting solutions dont give us the full insights we need, and this is where youll have the opportunity to help us shape our future state. Weve identified that Power BI as the way forward for us, and you will be heavily involved in shaping how that data gets consumed by Power BI. Alongside the Power Bi project, youll also manage our existing SQL database estate, so plenty to keep you busy!!
 
About our team
Youll be working in a large team of sociable and lively Service Improvement professionals for Matt, our IS Technical Delivery Manager.  Hes a massive football fan (both as an armchair watcher and on the pitch in his weekly 5 a side kickaround). When not watching or playing footie, Matt loves hard rock and heavy metal and is already planning his next gigs and festivals. He is also responsible for ensuring that we deliver the IS Services the business needs to succeed, driving continual service improvement and ensuring IS adds real value€¦
 
Working hours
Here at Home Group we believe flexibility works both ways. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours! Its important to us that youre in the office so we can work collaboratively and share best practices amongst the team. However there will be times, when you might work from home to concentrate on a particular piece of work. Throughout its the teams unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your childs school play, your partners graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. Working with Richard, you can fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off.
 
About you
Youll join our in-house technical team. Using your great people and communication skills, youll help us develop our database capability by collaborating with your (occasionally less technical) colleagues to share your know how! Youll also use your partnership skills to work with the business, and support us to deliver a great service.
 
In a perfect world it would be great if you had all the right certificates, however we appreciate that you may have the some great transferrable skills. The key technologies we are looking for you to be skilled in when you join us are in Microsoft T-SQL and ETL technologies. It would be awesome if you had experience with any of the following, but will be glad to support your development in them Progress Database, Oracle PL-SQL, Oracle Data Integrator, and Linux.
You are creative, passionate and ambitious, youll help us to deliver solutions that exceed expectations! Together well take the business on a journey to provide the clarity it needs!
Here at Home Group we have invested heavily in our future and use current and up to date equipment. Youll be issued with the latest kit, which could include a Surface Pro and mobile.
 
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