About PDI
PDI helps convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers thrive through digital transformation and enterprise software that enables them to grow topline revenue, optimize operations and unify their business across the entire value chain.
Over 1,500 customers in more than 200,000 locations worldwide count on our leading ERP, logistics, fuel pricing and marketing cloud solutions to provide insights that increase volume, margin, and customer loyalty. For more than 35 years, our comprehensive suite of solutions and unmatched expertise have helped customers reimagine their enterprise and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Backed by the investment of TA Associates, Genstar, and Insight Partners, PDI is embarking upon an aggressive expansion strategy through internal investment in development as well as intensive M&A activity. In the past five (5) years PDI has completed over 20 acquisitions to build a far broader, more powerful, global company that more fully serves the needs of our customers across their entire supply chain.
The Opportunity
The Data Engineer II will assist in the architecture, maintenance, monitoring, advancement, tuning, business continuity planning, backup and recovery testing of the company’s development, staging and production Databases. The candidate’s job activities will include database development, definition, structure, documentation, maintenance, long-range planning, and operational guidelines and data security. The candidate will also help with development and adapting frameworks and industry best practices, executing unit and performance testing.
Primary Responsibilities
• Rewrite and review complex stored procedures when necessary following advanced SQL best practices.
• Provide recommendations and participate in design sessions with engineering teams for data restructuring and performing complex maintenance.
• Design and implement processes and solutions for data distribution and data archiving.
• Plan work to meet project deadlines, accommodate demands by development teams, set priorities, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Provide recommendations to development teams for data restructuring.
• Assist development and dev ops teams on SQL queries and tuning.
• Understand replication technologies. Transactional Replication, AlwaysOn availability groups and Log-Shipping.
Qualifications
• Experience in SQL Database Administrator (SQL DBA)
• Working experience with using ADO as ticket management tool
• Retail and wholesale petroleum industry knowledge & experience is good to have
• Experience in Powershell Automation in automating SQL Server related tasks
• Expertise in MS-BI – Development and Administration (ETL Jobs, SSIS, SSRS)
• Expertise in import and export activity
• Expertise in MS SQL Server
• Expertise in SQL Programming skills
• Design and implementation of Data Partitioning
• Optimization of hardware configuration to SQL configuration
• Ability to participate in multiple projects concurrently
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation), customer service-oriented
• Strong problem-solving skill set, and the ability to understand new technologies quickly are essential
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and participates in all Agile/Scrum ceremonies
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Strong written and verbal communication & can translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
• Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures.
What We Do
PDI Technologies resides at the intersection of productivity and sales growth, delivering powerful solutions that serve as the backbone of the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem. By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with their customers. www.pditechnologies.com