Title:Lead Data Modeler
ID:JREQ054532
Description
Primary Objective(s)
The primary responsibilities of the position are to work with development teams, data architect and other members of the BI/Data Services Team to develop, maintain and enhance data models and metadata associated with FindLaw’s transactional, data warehouse databases. Provide security, governance and best practices as it relates to databases and data modeling.
Division/Group/Role
FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world’s leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw has grown significantly since its establishment in 1995, now employing more than 1,000 talented people with global operations in the United States, India and the United Kingdom.
FindLaw’s effective and innovative Internet marketing solutions include award-winning websites, custom video, online attorney profiles, social media solutions, search engine marketing and online advertising to help attorneys grow their business by connecting them with people who need their expertise. FindLaw also owns and operates FindLaw.com, the number one destination for consumers with legal needs with more than six million visits each month and home to the largest online legal directory of lawyers. As a trusted source, consumers turn to FindLaw.com to learn about a legal topic, solve a legal problem or find a lawyer.
FindLaw fosters a dynamic and customer-centric work culture that thrives on innovation and collaboration. With a distinct focus on attracting and retaining the best talent, the business strives to create an environment that encourages ongoing career development and learning opportunities for employees. As a result, FindLaw boasts the industry’s largest team of online experts, from content editors, Web designers, writers, engineers, SEO strategists to a national network of sales consultants who are committed to delivering excellence for its customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather & identify business data requirements from business partners and development teams, understand the information needs and translate those data requirements into conceptual, logical and physical database models. Database models will include operational databases, analytical, dimensional, and specific data marts designed to support transactional/operational systems as well as BI analytical processing and ad hoc business reporting.
- Analyze source systems and perform complex source data analysis to support ad-hoc and standing reporting development. Help drive solutions from business and technical requirements.
- Maintain and enhance data models for the enterprise.
- Collaborate on strategic directions of the team; provide ideas, thoughts on how to improve our methodologies and practices
- Mentor junior or contract modelers, ETL & BI development teams and assist developers.
- Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Architecture team and Data Architect to ensure alignment of the data models to ensure proper integration of data across the entire enterprise.
- Have the ability to work on multiple projects with varying level of complexity and changing priorities.
- Be an advocate for the practice of modeling in technology and communicate the benefits to the FindLaw organization. Provide consultation to enterprise data modeling efforts.
- Promote data modeling best practices and processes across FindLaw Technology. Enforce standards while still meeting demanding timelines. Partner with developers both locally and at other sites to achieve the best possible solutions.
- Assist with production support and maintenance.
- Review source systems and business publications to accurately capture new data requirements and integrate them into the logical data model.
- Conduct data model reviews with developers, architects, business analysts and subject matter experts to collaborate and gain consensus.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Computer Science, Business Data Processing, Computer Information Systems or related field is required.
- A minimum of 8 years of database and data modeling experience and formal software development processes.Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- Expert in SQL and SQL query development.
- Data modeling related to conceptual, logical, and physical model design.
- Experience in gathering and clarifying business and technical requirements
- Strong problem solving, debugging and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interface with business customers and team members
- Experience with Oracle RDMS is preferred. Mark Logic, and Semaphore would be a plus.
- Experience with modeling tools, PowerDesigner would be a plus
- Working knowledge and understanding of transactional and information systems, data warehouse architecture, data marts, MDM methodologies and life cycles as well as ETL processes. Informatica PowerCenter knowledge would be a plus.
- Experience with big data concepts such as Hadoop, Datameer, HDFS would be a plus
- Agile SDLC experience would be a plus
- Knowledge of database performance tuning techniques.
- Data warehouse environments such as partitioning, conditional, cubes, dimension and fact definitions as well other de-normalization techniques
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment both locally and with other geographical locations.
- Positive attitude, Independent problem solver and fast learner. Ability to work with minimal formal direction.
- Strong debugging and support experience
- Understanding of Business Intelligence architectures and tools such as, Business Objects, Tableau, Datameer, and reporting dashboards
- Data analysis/profiling and reverse engineering of data
- Familiar with XML schema design a plus.
- Knowledge of scripting and/or programming languages
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2016 fiscal year (October 1, 2015-September 30, 2016).
Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: L Tech Findlaw
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
ID:JREQ054532
Description
Primary Objective(s)
The primary responsibilities of the position are to work with development teams, data architect and other members of the BI/Data Services Team to develop, maintain and enhance data models and metadata associated with FindLaw’s transactional, data warehouse databases. Provide security, governance and best practices as it relates to databases and data modeling.
Division/Group/Role
FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world’s leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw has grown significantly since its establishment in 1995, now employing more than 1,000 talented people with global operations in the United States, India and the United Kingdom.
FindLaw’s effective and innovative Internet marketing solutions include award-winning websites, custom video, online attorney profiles, social media solutions, search engine marketing and online advertising to help attorneys grow their business by connecting them with people who need their expertise. FindLaw also owns and operates FindLaw.com, the number one destination for consumers with legal needs with more than six million visits each month and home to the largest online legal directory of lawyers. As a trusted source, consumers turn to FindLaw.com to learn about a legal topic, solve a legal problem or find a lawyer.
FindLaw fosters a dynamic and customer-centric work culture that thrives on innovation and collaboration. With a distinct focus on attracting and retaining the best talent, the business strives to create an environment that encourages ongoing career development and learning opportunities for employees. As a result, FindLaw boasts the industry’s largest team of online experts, from content editors, Web designers, writers, engineers, SEO strategists to a national network of sales consultants who are committed to delivering excellence for its customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather & identify business data requirements from business partners and development teams, understand the information needs and translate those data requirements into conceptual, logical and physical database models. Database models will include operational databases, analytical, dimensional, and specific data marts designed to support transactional/operational systems as well as BI analytical processing and ad hoc business reporting.
- Analyze source systems and perform complex source data analysis to support ad-hoc and standing reporting development. Help drive solutions from business and technical requirements.
- Maintain and enhance data models for the enterprise.
- Collaborate on strategic directions of the team; provide ideas, thoughts on how to improve our methodologies and practices
- Mentor junior or contract modelers, ETL & BI development teams and assist developers.
- Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Architecture team and Data Architect to ensure alignment of the data models to ensure proper integration of data across the entire enterprise.
- Have the ability to work on multiple projects with varying level of complexity and changing priorities.
- Be an advocate for the practice of modeling in technology and communicate the benefits to the FindLaw organization. Provide consultation to enterprise data modeling efforts.
- Promote data modeling best practices and processes across FindLaw Technology. Enforce standards while still meeting demanding timelines. Partner with developers both locally and at other sites to achieve the best possible solutions.
- Assist with production support and maintenance.
- Review source systems and business publications to accurately capture new data requirements and integrate them into the logical data model.
- Conduct data model reviews with developers, architects, business analysts and subject matter experts to collaborate and gain consensus.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Computer Science, Business Data Processing, Computer Information Systems or related field is required.
- A minimum of 8 years of database and data modeling experience and formal software development processes.Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- Expert in SQL and SQL query development.
- Data modeling related to conceptual, logical, and physical model design.
- Experience in gathering and clarifying business and technical requirements
- Strong problem solving, debugging and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interface with business customers and team members
- Experience with Oracle RDMS is preferred. Mark Logic, and Semaphore would be a plus.
- Experience with modeling tools, PowerDesigner would be a plus
- Working knowledge and understanding of transactional and information systems, data warehouse architecture, data marts, MDM methodologies and life cycles as well as ETL processes. Informatica PowerCenter knowledge would be a plus.
- Experience with big data concepts such as Hadoop, Datameer, HDFS would be a plus
- Agile SDLC experience would be a plus
- Knowledge of database performance tuning techniques.
- Data warehouse environments such as partitioning, conditional, cubes, dimension and fact definitions as well other de-normalization techniques
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment both locally and with other geographical locations.
- Positive attitude, Independent problem solver and fast learner. Ability to work with minimal formal direction.
- Strong debugging and support experience
- Understanding of Business Intelligence architectures and tools such as, Business Objects, Tableau, Datameer, and reporting dashboards
- Data analysis/profiling and reverse engineering of data
- Familiar with XML schema design a plus.
- Knowledge of scripting and/or programming languages
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the H-1B visa cap has been met for the 2016 fiscal year (October 1, 2015-September 30, 2016).
Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: L Tech Findlaw
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No