Experience Requirements Overview

  • Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
  • A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
  • Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
  • Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Education, Training and Experience

Required Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree

Related Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years

On-Site or In-Plant Training: N.A.

On-the-Job Training: Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months

Detailed Work Activities

  • Test software performance.
  • Evaluate project designs to determine adequacy or feasibility.
  • Troubleshoot issues with computer applications or systems.
  • Document operational procedures.
  • Modify software programs to improve performance.

Work Values

Achievement

Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

Working Conditions

Recognition

Relationships

Support

Independence

Tasks

  • Design and implement warehouse database structures.
  • Develop data warehouse process models, including sourcing, loading, transformation, and extraction.
  • Verify the structure, accuracy, or quality of warehouse data.
  • Map data between source systems, data warehouses, and data marts.
  • Develop and implement data extraction procedures from other systems, such as administration, billing, or claims.
  • Develop or maintain standards, such as organization, structure, or nomenclature, for the design of data warehouse elements, such as data architectures, models, tools, and databases.
  • Provide or coordinate troubleshooting support for data warehouses.
  • Write new programs or modify existing programs to meet customer requirements, using current programming languages and technologies.
  • Design, implement, or operate comprehensive data warehouse systems to balance optimization of data access with batch loading and resource utilization factors, according to customer requirements.
  • Perform system analysis, data analysis or programming, using a variety of computer languages and procedures.
  • Create supporting documentation, such as metadata and diagrams of entity relationships, business processes, and process flow.
  • Create or implement metadata processes and frameworks.
  • Review designs, codes, test plans, or documentation to ensure quality.
  • Create plans, test files, and scripts for data warehouse testing, ranging from unit to integration testing.
  • Select methods, techniques, or criteria for data warehousing evaluative procedures.
  • Implement business rules via stored procedures, middleware, or other technologies.
  • Prepare functional or technical documentation for data warehouses.
  • Test software systems or applications for software enhancements or new products.

Work Styles

Leadership

Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.

Achievement/Effort

Persistence

Initiative

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self-Control

Stress Tolerance

Adaptability/Flexibility

Dependability

Attention to Detail

Integrity

Independence

Innovation

Analytical Thinking

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