Database Developer

biBerk is building a cloud-first, API driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. Expanding our team, we are adding experienced software innovators to enhance our development efforts.

This role combines deep database system expertise with a heavy focus on individual contribution and achievement, working closely with other development and technology teams to support their efforts and ensure biBerk’s database systems are performing efficiently. This role will report to the Database Services Team Lead, primarily taking on development tasks.

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical SME for database development, ensuring industry best-practices are considered at all times
• Design and develop database solutions to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
• Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
• Collaborate with the Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
• Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
• Help promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophies
• Help create technical documentation and content
• Help ensure that Agile sprint cycle goals are achieved
• Help promote a security first mindset within the Database Services team
• Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
• Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
• Design and manage Azure Data Factory pipelines / routines
• Design and develop stored procedures, functions and triggers
• Design and develop tables, views and other SQL objects
• Design, write and fine-tune scripts to transform or fix data as necessary in SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure Cosmos DB

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Related field or equivalent working experience
• 5+ Years of proven experience in a database engineer\database developer or similar role, preferably a role that focused on database development tasks
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
• Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams
• Ability to work from 8:00AM-4:30PM eastern time, this is currently a full-time remote position
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours requests

Required Technology Experience:

• Ability to write and understand T-SQL stored procedures, functions, triggers
• Experience working within an Agile-derived CI/CD framework
• Experience working with RDBMS tables, views and other core objects
• Ability to troubleshoot complex query performance issues using SQL Server Profiler or similar tools
• Experience working with Azure data factory to extract, transform and load data to / from various SDLC environments
• Experience writing complex T-SQL statements to retrieve varied types of information
• Microsoft SQL server 2014 or newer
• Basic security concepts as it relates to Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB
• Ability to comprehend C#, JSON, Azure Bicep programming languages

Optional Technology Experience:

• Experience managing Azure SQL Databases
• Experience managing Azure Cosmos database instances
• Experience managing security and access within Microsoft SQL server

About Us

biBerk is where commercial insurance buyers can obtain coverage for their businesses from insurers of the Berkshire Hathaway group of Insurance Companies, one of the best capitalized insurance groups in the world. Our ultimate parent, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (berkshirehathaway.com) is a holding company with diversified interests in a host of industries, including insurance, energy, transportation and manufacturing. Most policies issued through biBerk.com will be underwritten by Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Company ("BHDIC"), which is an AM Best rated A++ insurer.

BHDIC is domiciled in Omaha, Nebraska. BHDIC and the team at biBerk are focused on helping small business owners quickly and easily buy affordable insurance directly from a financially strong insurance company they can trust.

Some highlights of our benefits are:

• Great work environment with growth opportunity
• Subsidized downtown parking (for in-office positions)
• Competitive compensation
• Generous amounts of vacation and sick time
• Closed on major holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• A fantastic healthcare package
• Tuition reimbursement after 6 months of employment
• Service recognition after 5 years of employment

In accordance with pay transparency laws and regulations, the following good faith compensation range estimate is being provided.  The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $120,000 per year.  Final compensation will be based on candidate qualifications, geographic location, and other considerations permitted by law.