We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

We're currently seeking a Senior Data Base Architect/Developer for a contract opportunity in Richmond, VA 

Job Description:

The selected candidate will:

• Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
  
• Independently perform a variety of complicated tasks.
  
• Work with a team of developers.
  
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both speaking and in writing.
  
• Implement software development life cycle best practices and continuous process improvement of existing processes.
  
• Design and develop database packages, procedures, functions, and queries to maintain production data, address production support tickets, and provide development support with a strong emphasis on data quality and stability.
  
• Write and maintain/extend existing PL/SQL code to convert initial data sets, perform system enhancements, and improve transaction editing.
  
• Review the existing database implementation and propose, execute, and/or direct necessary changes.
  
• The successful candidate will be capable of performing an analysis of the effectiveness of the existing system and clearly communicate reasoned justification for continuance and update, or alternative approaches.
  

Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience in communicating effectively using standard requirements and design artifacts

Desired knowledge of and experience with the following technologies:

• 10+ years of experience
  
• Oracle 11g/12c
  
• Oracle Spatial
  
• PL/SQL
  
• Toad
  
• SQL
  
• SQL Developer
  
• SQL Loader
  
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
  
• Python
  

Preferred Experience:

• Linear referencing and linear referencing method conversions
  
• ArcGIS Server experience

Special Instructions to Applicants:

This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.

The successful contractor will be required to continue education at own expense to stay current with technologies

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS

DURATION: 6+ Months Contract

INTERVIEW: Telephone / Skype