Database Analyst A

Job ID: 9248Position Title: Database Analyst AWorking Location: Illinois-DeerfieldEmployment Status: Full-Time RegularRequired Experience: 5 yearsRequired Education: Bachelors DegreeJob Description:Walgreens is the nation’s largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2007 sales of $53.8 billion. The company operates over 6,000 stores in 49 states and Puerto Rico, including 77 Happy Harry’s stores in Delaware and surrounding states. With 500 store openings per year, Walgreens will operate over 7,000 stores by 2010. Walgreens is expanding its patient-first health care services beyond traditional pharmacy through Walgreens Health Services, its managed care division, and Take Care Health Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary that manages convenient care clinics inside drugstores. Walgreens Health Services assists pharmacy patients and prescription drug and medical plans through Walgreens Health Initiatives, Inc. (a pharmacy benefits manager), Walgreens Mail Service Inc., Walgreens Home Care Inc., and Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy LLC. Ranked 2nd among food and drug retailers on Fortune's "Most Admired Companies in America" list. We offer challenging and rewarding opportunities in a friendly, diverse, inclusive and respectful environment, with excellent benefits including:• Company-matched profit sharing contributions• Stock discount purchase program• Employee discount plan • Train shuttle service• Flex-pay• Medical/Dental planAs the nation's leading pharmacy, we seek professional individuals to fill key positions at Walgreens, ensuring our leadership and taking us to even higher levels of growth, profitability, innovation and customer service. Walgreens is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds. Walgreens promotes and supports a drug-free and smoke-free workplace.Essential Skills:Work directly with users and developers to translate functional requirements into technical specifications yielding an optimized application. Apply industry best practices to data modeling, table and index design. Partner with developers to help them optimize their code as it relates to database access. Through that partnership, identify tuning opportunities and recommend performance enhancements. Help developers leverage database features and functions. Assist developers by identifying potential problems and recommending alternative solutions. Implement changes to database objects (tables, indexes, constraints, triggers, views, and stored procedures) in development and test environments. Interface directly with Production DBA’s to implement database changes in production.Qualifications:B.S. in Computer Science or other technical degree or equivalent work experience required with 2-6 years of post-graduate experience in IT. This position also requires 2-4 years as an Oracle DBA or developer with direct exposure to database design, data modeling, application SQL tuning, space management and database monitoring. Must have working knowledge of AIX and Solaris operating systems a plus. Must have strong verbal and written communication skills; Strong analytical and problem solving skills; Must be self-motivated and able to grasp functional concepts quickly; Must be able to work on cross-functional teams and independently. Hands-on experience with Pharmacy Benefits Systems or other Walgreen Pharmacy/Health Care application systems is highly desirable.. Company: Walgreens Location: deerfield, IL Status: Full Time, Employee Job Category: IT/Software Development Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager) Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Company: Walgreens Reference Code: PCK347-39661