by Angela Guess
State Farm is looking for a Data Specialist in Bloomington, IL. Responsibilities include: “Create, alter, and maintain application database structures that meet the needs of the business. Perform database specific application tuning; diagnose and resolve problems. Create and implement physical data standards, procedures and guidelines for use of database managers. Perform research on database and platform features, technologies, and tools, and implement and upgrade products.”
The post states, “Business Application Frameworks (BAF) is a data intensive area providing support for an application architecture designed to accelerate web application development for Insurance and Financial products in any channel and on any device. Attaining a resource that has expertise in transactional management and experience with Postgres as well as strong mentoring skills, will help promote appropriate data design and access to provide a better customer experience. Looking for a level 3/4 Data Specialist that has extensive experience with: EnterpriseDB (PostgreSQL) database design and support. Transactional Design experience. Performance Tuning experience for High volume applications. Experience managing large data sets. Spring. Gemfire. Mentoring and Training experience. Service Oriented Architecture.”
