Database Engineer

Database Engineer, Remote 

About Ascend 

Ascend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.     

Your Impact at Ascend Analytics 

As a Database Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. If you want to help shape a new future of a cleaner, most cost-effective energy supply and work for an industry-leading software company with dedicated and talented people passionate about our future, this could be a great fit. Ascend is a fast growing and profitable company with opportunity for advancement. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Design and write clean, scalable, production code with a focus on OLAP and RDBMS systems 
• Refactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability 
• Implement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale 
• Work with our team of developers, analysts and data scientists 
• Communicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders 
• Contribute to scoping and design discussions 
• This position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning. 

 Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree (B. A./ B. S.) from four-year College or University in CS, Physics, Mathematics, or other technical field 
• Strong understanding of Data Warehouse/Solution Design and Dimensional Modeling 
• Strong understanding of Data Warehousing and OLAP defining, developing, and delivering data and analysis 
• Relational Databases 
• Multidimensional Databases  
• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)  
• Oracle/PostGreSQL RDBMS 
• Proficiency in OOPs 
• Visual Studios Data Tools  
• Complex SQL Language  
• MDX Language 

 Preferred Qualifications 

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