Senior Database Architect

 

COMPANY                 Athletes’ Performance

 

POSITION                  Senior Database Architect

 

LOCATION                Norwell, MA



 

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

 

Athletes’ Performance has firmly established itself as the world leader in providing integrated performance training services to elite athletes. From its four elite facilities in Arizona, Southern California, Las Vegas and Florida, the company has trained many of the Top Champions in Sport, from NFL first round picks (8 in 2006) to NFL veterans (over 180 currently in the NFL), from NBA first round picks (9 in 2006) to stars like Chauncey Billups and Kevin Garnett, from World Cup heroes (US Women's Soccer, German Men's Soccer) to MLB All-Stars (7 in 2006), and from Major Champions in golf and tennis to world-class teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Green Bay Packers.  Led by Founder and Chairman Mark Verstegen, and CEO Bill Allard (founder of Marquis Jets), Athletes’ Performance is leveraging its unparalleled reputation and intellectual property to create in Core Performance a leading premium consumer brand.  Focusing on the large psychographic of performance-oriented recreational, occupational, amateur, and youth athletes, and achievement-oriented “athletes in the sport of life”, Core Performance provides sports training, fitness, nutrition and lifestyle content that is developed by the experts at Athletes’ Performance. 

 

Core Performance’s opportunity lies in leveraging the unparalleled credibility and intellectual property of Athletes' Performance and extending it to the psychographic of performance-oriented consumers.  Through the development of “Core Performance Centers”, the company is aiming to offer a revolutionary new product concept to consumers of the health club industry.  Through the Core Performance website, the company will offer Athletes’ Performance content in the areas of Movement (training, fitness), Nutrition (with a performance-oriented focus), Recovery and Mindset, which are the four pillars that make up Athletes' Performance's "Core Fundamentals" to Performance.  

 

The company’s partners, including powerful global brands such as adidas and Starwood, are providing significant content distribution and consumer awareness opportunities and give the company a further competitive advantage.

 

In October of 2006, Athletes’ Performance announced that it received its first round of institutional funding from Polaris Venture Partners, and its second round from Polaris closed in the third quarter of 2007.  Athletes’ Performance is building a world-class management team based out of its new corporate offices on the South Shore of Boston, with the elite business continuing to be headquartered at the company’s original Tempe, Arizona site.



 

ABOUT POLARIS VENTURE PARTNERS

Established in 1996, with offices in Waltham and Seattle, Polaris has over $3 billion under management. Polaris Venture Partners has helped build numerous market leading companies, including Akamai Technologies, Allaire, Art.com, Exchange.com, healthCentral Network, Heavy.com, JibJab.com, Powersoft, TechTarget.com, WordPress, and World Championship Sports.

 

POSITION SUMMARY



 

As a senior member of the AP Technology Team, you  will contribute to the architecture, design and development of our products and applications. The Database Architect will be responsible for working with other personnel within and outside the department to understand requirements and deliver database and reporting solutions based upon these requirements.  The candidate will be involved in product and vendor selection as well as architecture and hands-on database, data warehouse and reporting solutions. Candidate will be responsible for day to day maintenance (backup, recovery, trending, tuning etc..) of production and staging database systems. In addition candidate will be responsible for developing ETL processes with various outsourced technology providers and perform ad-hoc queries on this data when required. The candidate will work in close collaboration with the VP of Engineering and CTO, to help define the technical product roadmap, feature set and the appropriate tools/technologies.



 

RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Management of high availability Oracle and MYSql production and staging database systems (including clustering and replication)

·         Implementation of ETL tools to allow for data extraction and integration with third party providers

·         Design, product/vendor selection and implementation of data warehouse solutions

·         Design, product/vendor selection and implementation of an enterprise reporting solution

·         Tuning of existing SQL queries to improve system performance 

·         Set up and migration of various MYSql and Oracle databases

·         Ad hoc query generation as requested

·         Proactive security and associated patching of database systems

·         Management and review of all new database schemas prior to implementation

·         Proactive monitoring to identify and fix problems before they occur









PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have had at least six+ years of experience

·         Experience working with RDBMS (mySQL, SqlServer, Oracle)

·         Database and data warehouse development and management experience with a proven proficiency in the following areas:

   o   Data Warehousing

   o   Expert level data models / schema modeling

   o   Enterprise reporting solutions / BI Tools

   o   Complex Ad-Hoc SQL queries

   o   Database management including backup, recover, replication and clustering

   o   Database tuning (including hardware/disk configuration and management)

   o   Linux/Windows management and understanding

·         Experience building strong Business client relationship

·         Strong leadership and communication skills

·         Previous success building, mentoring and leading across-functional groups

·         Needs to work well in a team environment and have effectiveness building teams 









Additional desired qualifications include:

·         An expert level understanding of database systems and management

·         Sound knowledge of database design/modeling using industry standard tools

·         Excellent problem solving skills

·         Experience selecting and managing external vendors

 ·        Good communication and documentation skills

·         Advanced project planning, time management, and prioritization skills with mutli-tiered web development is a plus

·         Willingness to play multiple roles and passion for building innovative products

·         Experience working with onshore/offshore agencies a plus 









COMPENSATION

 

A competitive compensation package will be offered to the successful candidate.  The compensation package will include a base, bonus and equity.



 

CONTACT

 

No agencies please. No Visa sponsorship. Please send a cover letter and resume with your application.