Location / Remote: Hybrid in Kissimmee, FL (minimum 3 days per week onsite)
Employment Type: 6 month W-2 Contract-to-Hire
Benefits (Upon Conversion to Direct Employment):
- Florida Retirement System (FRS) retirement benefits, including employer contributions
- 100% employer paid Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer-paid life insurance coverage
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance provided at no cost
- Paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and a floating holiday
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement opportunities, subject to eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits supporting long-term stability and employee well-being
Contract Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, HSA/FSA, term life, and supplemental health insurances (e.g., Aflac) for all employees (and their families if needed), 401k
Compensation: up to $74,000 annually upon conversion, depending on qualifications.
This SQL Report Developer role focuses on delivering accurate, timely business and operational reporting that stakeholders can trust for day-to-day decisions. Success in this role requires strong hands-on report development and troubleshooting skills, practical SQL capability to validate and shape data, and the ability to translate business questions into clear reporting deliverables. You will also contribute to ongoing improvements as reporting evolves from legacy solutions toward modern, cloud-based analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, modify, and maintain business and operational reports, ensuring outputs align to defined requirements and are delivered on schedule.
- Troubleshoot reporting defects by tracing logic end-to-end, validating source data, and correcting calculations, filters, joins, or parameters to restore accuracy.
- Write and refine SQL queries to extract, join, filter, and analyze data from relational databases to support report creation and validation.
- Validate report results through reconciliation, exception checks, and stakeholder review, documenting assumptions and definitions to reduce future ambiguity.
- Elicit reporting requirements by interviewing business users, clarifying metrics and definitions, and translating needs into report layouts, logic, and acceptance criteria.
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including explaining data limitations, root causes, and resolution steps.
- Drive continuous improvement of reporting processes, including standardizing report logic, improving performance where possible, and reducing manual effort.
- Learn and apply emerging reporting technologies as needed, supporting a transition from legacy reporting approaches toward cloud-based BI and analytics.
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of hands-on experience creating, modifying, maintaining, and troubleshooting business or operational reports, with a strong understanding of data sources, report logic, and reporting deliverables.
- Practical SQL and relational database reporting experience, including the ability to extract, filter, join, analyze, and validate data used in reports.
- Demonstrated ability to gather requirements from business stakeholders, translate business needs into usable reports, and resolve reporting issues through clear communication.
- Proven technical adaptability and initiative, with a track record of learning new reporting technologies and supporting modernization from legacy reporting toward cloud-based BI and analytics.
Preferred Skills:
- Hands-on experience with reporting/BI tools and Microsoft data platforms such as Crystal Reports, Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, and/or Fabric Lakehouse, including modernizing legacy reports or migrating reporting workloads to newer platforms.
