Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Enterprise Operations

US Exempt Regular

Full time

Stateside Exempt 3.5

Location: Adelphi, MD (Hybrid)

Summary:

The Senior Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess customer’s business requirement and in conjunction with data owners and department managers develop long-term strategic goals for production databases (including MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo and Oracle).

• Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.

• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.

• Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.

• Create models for new database development and/or changes to existing ones.

• Install and configure relevant network components to ensure database access as well as database consistency and integrity.

• Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.

• Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.

• Monitor, optimize and allocate physical data storage for database systems.

• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.

• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to databases.

• Create, or support creation of, required reports in response to business user needs.

• Perform database transaction and security audits.

• Establish appropriate end-user database access control levels.

• Develop routines for end users to facilitate best practices database use.

• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.

Skills:

• Demonstrated competency in project management and management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects

• Successful experience in working with end users to develop effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems

• Successful development and implementation of new technology and work processes

• Good written and oral communication skills.

• Strong technical documentation skills.

• Highly self-motivated and directed.

• Keen attention to detail.

• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• Strong customer service orientation.

• Ability to present and explain technical information to diverse types of audiences (management, users, vendors, technical staff) in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding 

• Ability to write clear proposals and technical documents

• Strong interpersonal skills at all levels of management and ability to motivate employees/teams to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems; excellent teamwork skills

• Solid project management skills, effectively managing multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment

• Ability to weigh various suggested technical solutions against the original business needs and choose the most cost-effective solution

• Ability to work with long-established senior staff, provide guidance, and assign and follow up on tasks

Education & Experience Requirements:

Experience:

• 6+ years in information technology.

• 3 years experience as a DBA in one or more environments.

• Experience with the following software languages:  MySQL databases, Mongo, Oracle Exadata, 11g Active Dataguard or other database replication technologies. Experience with Log Shipping, Database Mirroring for SQL Server databases. 

• Strong knowledge of Cloud (AWS, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, DBaaS)

• Strong knowledge of SQL, and stored procedures & functions.

• Strong knowledge of MongoDB.

• Expert experience wit