Thread: ETL / Database conversion Specialist - 3-6+ month Contract - Chicago

ETL / Database conversion Specialist - 3-6+ month Contract - Chicago
Job Code: OT2-Mat

Location: Chicago, IL
Compensation: Market

Description:

Would you like to work with a small company with a very unique business model based on intellectual Property Assets (patents)? There are currently 6 terabytes of data in a SQL Server database which is being converted to a PostgreSQL database.

The design and performance challenges are many. One current program runs for 30+ days - and it needs to be run at least weekly. Some of the analyses involve calculations with 2+ billion rows. Current data is in multiple formats including some old unstructured text-based. Work also includes re-doing current SQL Server stored procedures

The background that you will need to be successful in this role includes:

• 5+ years working with large databases (conversion, loading, performance issues, [preferably in a large data warehouse environment
• Extensive experience in Open Source environments (Linux, Perl, C, MySQL, etc)
• Must have experience with very large databases