Database Developer, Reporting

Description
Yahoo!, with 300 million busy users, offers the opportunity to work on incredibly interesting and challenging data problems in a great work environment. The scale of the problems at Yahoo! is industry leading and so is Yahoo!'s vision of enhancing user experience and advertising relevance through data.

Yahoo! Search Marketing in Burbank, CA is the world leader in Pay-For-Performance search on the Internet. This arm of Yahoo! created the market for Pay-For-Performance search by redefining how businesses market online. YSM distributes its editorially reviewed search results to tens of thousands of sites across the Internet, making it the largest Pay-For-Performance search and advertising network on the Internet.

Database Developer
Burbank, CA
RX1000015300

We are seeking a database developer to be part of our Reporting team in Burbank, CA. The database developer will provide his/her customers with information and data they need for planning, analysis, and decision-making; work closely with those customers to understand key business drivers behind data requests. He or she will create and maintain database tables, scripts, and reports to support business intelligence across the company. The person in this position would also be required to work closely in collaborative efforts with team members in the Business Information, Strategic Data Services and other technology and business groups.

Basic qualifications:

* Strong problem solving skills and ability to navigate complicated database relationships and understand how data can best be leveraged to meet customer needs
* Takes initiative and able to collaborate in a fast-paced deadline driven environment with multiple priorities
* Ability to learn proprietary query language (MyNA)
* Oracle, TOAD, and query performance tuning
* SQL
* Experience working with large transactional and reporting databases (+50M rows daily)


Preferred qualifications:

* 2+ years demonstrated experience working as a database developer, performing complex and extensive SQL database queries, and creating and maintaining scripts and tables for Oracle relational databases
* 2+ years demonstrated experience developing SQL-based and shell/Perl based aggregation scripts within complex development frameworks
* 2+ years demonstrated experience working within Unix environments
* Analytical mind
* Excellent communications skills
* Takes initiative and able to collaborate in a fast-paced deadline driven environment with multiple priorities
* Experience with web design, HTML, Dream Weaver
* Flash experience in graphics, layout and user interface design
* Creating/developing reports for end users

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com