Associate Principal, Database Administration

What You'll Do:

This role will design and maintain databases and database solutions that operate within prescribed resource limits and meet company standards. Participate in and contribute to all phases of systems development projects. Monitor and tune database and database application performance.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Assists with the design, implementation, and maintaining databases

• Manage database performance and disk usage

• Provides support in database access methods

• Provides consultation support in database analysis, modeling, coding, and production problem resolution.

• Develops maintenance, backup and recovery procedures and documentation

• Participates in Disaster Recovery drills

• Provides Primary On-Call Support for production problems

• Understands and supports corporate data standards

• Recommends and assists with new DBMS and operational standards.

• Participates in testing and in evaluations of new software and software release upgrades

• Supports business studies, proposal teams and costing/feasibility studies

• Prepares system documentation

• Maintains metadata repositories

• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] 3+ years’ experience developing and maintaining complex applications that make extensive use of a supported database technology or 3+ years’ experience as an associate DBA

• [Required] Well versed in all phases of Systems Analysis and Design

• [Required] Experienced in two or more programming languages and two or more scripting languages

• [Required] Practiced at Entity/Relationship or Object modeling and translation to physical database designs

• [Required] Proficient in DML, DDL, and database utilities for at least two DBMS technologies

• [Required] Proficient in all access methods of a DBMS as well as the underlying operating system access methods

• [Required] Knowledge of hardware and operating system capabilities within one Environment

• [Required] Understanding of all software subsystems (DBMS, TP Managers, etc.) for one environment

• [Required] Accepts ownership in assignments, team, and company and takes initiative outside immediate area of responsibility

• [Required] Speed / Sense of Urgency –Contributes additional effort when necessary to get the job done and to help others meet their objectives

• [Required] Seeks additional responsibility, shows initiative to learn every aspect of the job, and strives to become a mentor to others in area of expertise

• [Required] Communicates openly and effectively. Challenges established practices appropriately

• [Required] Ability to maintain composure under pressure and avoid defensive or irritated or reactions in challenging situations

Technical Skills:

• [Required] 7+ years’ experience with PostgreSQL (preferred EnterpriseDB (EDB) version)

• [Required] 3+ year’ Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins & CI/CD skills

• [Preferred] 3+ years’ experience with CTE(CipherTrust Transparent Encryption), Barman (EDB Backup and Recovery Manager) and AWS

• [Preferred] 5+ years’ experience with DB2 LUW; preferably on Red Hat Linux

• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with SQL Server

• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with MySQL/MariaDB

• [Preferred] 1+ years’ experience with DB2 in a z/OS environment

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Business

• [Preferred] Related financial industry experiences

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Preferred] PostgreSQL Professional Certification

• [Preferred] IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending tra