SSRS Developer (Contractor)
An experienced SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) Developer is sought for a contract or interim position. This role operates on a hybrid working model, combining home and office-based work. The primary focus will be on responding to business reporting requests and amending existing SSRS reports on SQL Server. A secondary responsibility involves supporting the migration of SSRS reporting to Amazon Redshift.
- Amend, maintain, and enhance existing SSRS reports hosted on SQL Server, ensuring accuracy, performance, and fitness for business use.
- Troubleshoot and resolve report defects, data discrepancies, and performance issues in a timely manner.
- Manage report deployment, scheduling, and subscriptions within the SSRS environment.
- Support the migration of existing SSRS reports and underlying data sources from SQL Server to Redshift, including query conversion, data source reconfiguration, and testing.
- Validate migrated reports against existing outputs to confirm data accuracy and consistency post-migration.
- Document report specifications, changes, and migration decisions to maintain a clear audit trail.
- Liaise with data engineering teams where report or migration work depends on underlying data model or infrastructure changes.
- Proven hands-on experience developing and maintaining reports in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) (required).
- Strong T-SQL skills, including writing and optimising queries, stored procedures, and views (required).
- Experience gathering requirements directly from business stakeholders and translating them into report specifications (required).
- Solid understanding of report design principles (parameters, subreports, data-driven subscriptions) (required).
- Experience with SQL Server administration/reporting infrastructure sufficient to support report deployment and troubleshooting (required).
- Experience migrating reporting workloads or data sources to Amazon Redshift, or working with Redshift more generally (preferred).
- Familiarity with differences between T-SQL and Redshift SQL (PostgreSQL-based) and common migration pitfalls (data types, functions, performance tuning) (preferred).
- Experience working in a regulated industry, with an awareness of data protection and information security requirements when handling business or customer data (preferred).
- Experience of Powershell (preferred).
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