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T-SQL Developer, Vancouver

Located in the best part of Vancouver (BC), Suite101.com - http://www.suite101.com/careers - is a profitable online publishing veteran. Our international web properties deliver authoritative and interesting content to more than 24 million unique visitors per month.

Suite101.com's team is a handpicked, international group of highly ambitious and creative professionals who are proud of their friendly, fun, and open work environment. Our working culture welcomes and promotes new ideas, giving free room for trial and error.

We are looking for junior to intermediate database administrator with T-SQL experience to help us maintain, enhance, and optimize the data tier of our content platform-as-a-service. Experience with additional technology stacks a huge plus.

Job Description:
• Implement business projects on time and with high quality.
• Work within an agile development environment to complete user stories
• Work under the supervision of the senior Database Engineer to design, document, and implement improvements to the Suite101 data model and stored procedures.
• Maintain and optimize the database.
• Work with the Suite101 development team on technical design of product features.

• Required Skills:
• 3+ MS T-SQL/SQL Server 2000+ skills.
• Strong understanding of software development process.
• Focus on teamwork; able to collaborate with Business and QA staff on projects.
• Must be able to perform under tight timeframes & execute problem-solving skills.
• Good analysis and design skills, yet practical enough to get the job done.
• Very strong spoken and written English communication skills.
• Eligible to work in Canada.

Additional Skills:
• Degree in Computer Science preferred.
• Experience with Postgres and PLSQL is a strong asset.
• Experience with .NET is a strong asset.
• Experience building, delivering, and maintaining a dynamic web site.

Compensation:
• Competitive salary (commensurate with experience).
• Stock options and benefits package.
• 18 days paid vacation.
• Extended medical and dental benefits.
• Flexible hours.

Apply: Email your resume highlighting your relevant experience (.pdf, .doc, .jpg) to Pouneh Naderi: careers@suite101.com. Please include samples of your successful work (e.g. websites, search ranking successes, etc.) indicating which aspects you were responsible for.