Preferred Skills/Experience 5 Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools 5 Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired 5 Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary 5 Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery 5 Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions 5 Well-developed oral and written communications skills 5 Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills 5 Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult 5 Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques 5 Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output 5 Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models 5 GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies.