Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Database support, standards, and architecture across our enterprise
• Manage relational and non-relational databases hosted in Linux platform through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configure, maintain, and design database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Perform data modeling, database design, master data management, SQL Performance tuning and data profiling in a large-scale OLTP and OLAP database environments
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Plan, build, deploy and maintain enterprise OLTP and OLAP based EDW platforms and services. This includes proactive monitoring and tracking, and relevant data analysis and reporting.
• Pro-active and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of database related issues in support of critical day-to-day business operations.
• Responsible for establishing and enforcing consistent database standards, access protocols, profiling and benchmarking, and development, execution, and measurement of effective service level agreements.
• Responsible for database capacity planning and efficient utilization of database resources based on performance, growth and utilization trends, including documentation of same.
• Responsible for ensuring high availability (>99.0%) of critical database systems and services and development, implementation and testing of failover and recovery plans for all critical database systems.
• Participates in the setting of objectives, strategies, plans, programs, performance standards/measures and procedures, as a member of the IT leadership team.
• Participate in on-call system administration support including but not limited to weekends, holidays and after-business hours as required to service the needs of the business.
• Develop and implement plans for database consolidation where needed
• Work with end users for special requests and new setups
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior technical team members.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 5-8+ years of experience managing database servers and databases
• 2+ years in database architecture role, assisting with creating database designs that are performant and running on Oracle Exadata systems compatible with applications
• Comfortable in an Enterprise Leadership role for Database Platforms
• Prior good experience with recent and newer versions of database platforms, database virtualization, clustering, always-on availability, replications and database backup and recovery solutions.
• Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization, using native monitoring and 3rd party troubleshooting tools
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
• Experienced in writing SQL queries and some ANSI SQL preferred
• Knowledge of batch, Perl, C and/or other scripting languages
• Ability to organize and plan work with team and independently
• Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication and teamwork skills with strong customer service orientation
• Knowledge of formal information security standards and best practices, including database system hardening, identity management and database access controls. Knowledge of HIPAA and PCI standards a plus.
• Demonstrated project management skills and ability to track and report progress against established milestones, metrics and deliverables.
• Positive attitude, ability to work in a team and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision

Other Skills:

• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment and willing to learn other database technologies (Oracle, Vertica, Postgres, AWS RDS, Snowflake)
• Any relevant database certifications will be advantage
• Prior experience demonstrated thorough knowledge and progressively responsible experience in implementation and maintenance of large-scale OLTP and OLAP systems in mission-critical environments including, but not limited to, Oracle 12c/19c, Oracle RAC, Oracle Grid Control, Exadata Machine Administration, Data Pump, Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Directory Services, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Cloud Control.