SQL Report Developer

**Location / Remote:** Hybrid in Kissimmee, FL (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 developing, modifying, maintaining, and troubleshooting SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) and Crystal Reports used for day-to-day business and operational reporting. Success in this role requires hands-on experience with SSRS and/or Crystal Reports, strong SQL skills, and the ability to work directly with business users to understand reporting needs, resolve issues, and deliver accurate reports. You will support existing production reporting systems while contributing to future modernization efforts involving Power BI and cloud-based reporting technologies. **Responsibilities:** * Develop, modify, and maintain SSRS and/or Crystal Reports for business and operational users, ensuring reports meet established requirements and are delivered on schedule. * Troubleshoot existing SSRS/Crystal reporting defects by tracing report logic, validating source data, and correcting calculations, filters, joins, parameters, or report configurations to restore accuracy. * Write and refine SQL queries, views, and stored procedures to extract, join, filter, and validate relational data used in operational reports. * Validate report results through reconciliation, exception checks, and stakeholder review, documenting assumptions and reporting definitions to maintain accuracy and consistency. * Gather reporting requirements directly from business users, clarify report fields, calculations, parameters, and layouts, and translate their needs into report development or modification tasks. * Work directly with report users to investigate reporting issues, explain findings, demonstrate changes, and provide ongoing report support and troubleshooting. * Maintain and enhance existing production reports, including modifying report layouts, improving query performance, resolving defects, and supporting scheduled or recurring reporting. * Support future reporting modernization initiatives, including transitioning legacy reporting solutions toward Power BI, Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, and other cloud-based BI technologies. **Required Skills:** * 3+ years of hands-on experience creating, modifying, maintaining, and troubleshooting business or operational reports, including experience supporting existing production reporting environments. * Hands-on experience developing and maintaining reports using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) and/or Crystal Reports. Experience with at least one of these platforms is required. * Practical SQL and relational database reporting experience, including writing and troubleshooting SQL queries, joins, filters, aggregations, and report datasets to ensure accurate reporting results. * Demonstrated experience working directly with business users to gather reporting requirements, implement report changes, troubleshoot issues, and support reporting needs. * Experience handling multiple aspects of the reporting lifecycle, including report development, modifications, data validation, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance. **Preferred Skills:** * Experience with both SSRS and Crystal Reports, including report parameters, expressions, formulas, datasets, layouts, deployment, and scheduled reporting. * Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Report Builder, RDL, and paginated reports. * Hands-on experience with Power BI, Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, and/or Fabric Lakehouse, including modernizing legacy reports or migrating reporting workloads to newer platforms. Pay: Up to $70,000.00 per year Benefits: * 401(k) * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Health insurance * Health savings account * Life insurance * Paid time off * Parental leave * Retirement plan * Vision insurance Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kissimmee, FL 34741