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name: data-warehouse-designer
description: "Occupational skill for the role 'data warehouse designer' (also: data warehouse architect, data warehouse developer). Use when the user asks for typical data warehouse designer work such as: Test software systems or applications for software enhancements or new products.; Review designs, codes, test plans, or documentation to ensure quality.; Provide or coordinate troubleshooting support for data warehouses."
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# Data Warehouse Designer

Data warehouse designers are responsible for planning, connecting, designing, scheduling, and deploying data warehouse systems. They develop, monitor and maintain ETL processes, reporting applications and data warehouse design.

## Core workflow

1. Test software systems or applications for software enhancements or new products.
2. Review designs, codes, test plans, or documentation to ensure quality.
3. Provide or coordinate troubleshooting support for data warehouses.
4. Prepare functional or technical documentation for data warehouses.
5. Write new programs or modify existing programs to meet customer requirements, using current programming languages and technologies.
6. Verify the structure, accuracy, or quality of warehouse data.
7. Select methods, techniques, or criteria for data warehousing evaluative procedures.
8. Perform system analysis, data analysis or programming, using a variety of computer languages and procedures.

## How to use this skill

- Read `references/profile.md` for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult `references/tasks.md` for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check `references/skills.md` for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check `references/tools.md` for the software commonly used in this role.

## Key competences (essential)

- analyse business requirements
- apply ICT systems theory
- assess ICT knowledge
- business process modelling
- create data sets
- create database diagrams
- create software design
- data warehouse
- database
- database development tools
- database management systems
- define technical requirements
- design database scheme
- develop automated migration methods
- ICT security legislation

## Hot technologies

- IBM SPSS Statistics
- SAS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
- Splunk Enterprise
- Atlassian JIRA
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop

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