Senior Database/Administration Developer

At Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), we’ve been hiring friends since 1937—people who share our passion for helping customers feel right at home. If you share our vision, we invite you to be one of us! People love working here! Named one of Furniture Today’s Best places to work, and here a few reasons why: A FUN, stable work environment, with no layoffs in our history. A safe place to work and shop, development opportunities leading you to the career of your dreams and a culture that encourages volunteering and serving our communities.

Do you have extensive hands-on experience developing database queries, ETL, and associated code in a Microsoft SQL Server environment? As NFM’s Senior Database Administration/ Developer you will create programs to populate and maintain the data in the departments transaction processing systems. This involves the creation of ETL programs along with the supporting stored procedures, functions, triggers, and constraints.

Applicants for this position may work remotely from their home. However, they must live in one of the states where NFM operates, including IA, NE, MO, KS, and TX.

Job Duties: A Day in the Life

• Be Precise: Maintain source code for database and ETL projects. Ensure that projects build successfully in a continuous integration environment. Ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of in-house information systems that support core organizational functions.
• Balance: Creating and executing unit tests for developed code
• Unravel: Diagnose and resolve database performance issues
• Collaborate: Follow and improve development processes including but not limited to conducting peer/code reviews, complying with organizational standards, ensuring code maintainability, following build processes, implementing unit tests, and following other industry standard best practices. Work with third party vendors to ensure file transmissions run successfully and timely
• Support: Participate in database design and architecture to support application development projects. Design and preform server and security audits, system backup procedures and other recovery processes in accordance with NFM’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

Your work will directly impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.
Qualifications: Can You Check These Boxes?

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server with emphasis on database code and ETL development
• Database design skills including normalization
• Strong hands-on T-SQL development skills including stored procedure, function, and trigger creation
• Excellent query optimization and performance tuning skills
• Extensive experience developing ETL process using SSIS and Azure data factory
• Detailed analytical skills
• Structured troubleshooting skills
• SQL Server database development using Visual Studio
• Build and define test plans and/or test data in Visual Studio
• NoSQL database design and development is desired
• Experiences with Git, Azure DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines is desired
• Experience with Azure cloud services is a plus
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology is preferred
• Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check

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Benefits: What’s in It for You?

As a full-time member of our NFM Family, you will enjoy:

• Same day pay - access to your earned pay on-demand, when you need it the most
• Competitive pay - generous annual increases up to 7%
• Inclusive culture – Because everyone who works or shops at NFM should feel right at home
• Health, dental, vision, life Insurance, short and long term disability
• Paid holidays (upon hire) and paid time off (after 90 days)
• Staff discount on merchandise (Collectively, NFM staff have saved almost $2 million on purchases in the last 12 months)
• Virtual and in-person career development opportunities at all levels
• Paid community volunteer opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• You’ll start saving for your retirement immediately in NFM’s 401(k) and you’re eligible for company match after one year. NFM’s 401(k) also offers Berkshire Stock as an investment option

Nebraska Furniture Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer