Database Administrator 2

Novalink Solutions LLC•Austin, TX

About The Position

This role involves the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems. The Database Administrator ensures that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment. They evaluate users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporate them into the existing shared data environment, and provide technical assistance. Responsibilities include coordinating the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loading databases, and reorganizing as needed. The position also entails performing data modeling and prototyping, including logical and physical data modeling, designing relational database models, and creating physical data models from logical data models. Security recovery procedures are also a key part of the role. The administrator will determine and implement database search strategies and storage requirements, maintain the data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and setting standards for its use, and monitor database performance, recommending efficiency improvements. A test database environment for applications will be created, including necessary libraries and procedures. The role requires executing procedures to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures. Assistance will be provided in determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security, monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems, installing database software, and analyzing, designing, and implementing databases. Benchmarking and threshold testing of databases, establishing and controlling database security, and assisting in the selection of database management software are also included. The position requires ensuring that user interfaces for database administration and data input/output are compliant with accessibility standards and providing support to users in obtaining data/information when accessibility issues arise.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts
Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
Ability to use database access tools for application delivery
Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
Well-developed oral and written communications skills
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL pe
Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work.
Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies.
Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies.

Nice To Haves

Oracle Database experience
PowerBI report creation

Responsibilities

Enters codes to create production database.
Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory.
Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to database management system.
Reviews and corrects programs.
Answers user questions.
Confers with coworkers to determine impact of database changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to database.
Modifies database programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning.
Provides assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems.
Ensures that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment.
Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance.
Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed.
Performs data modeling and prototyping.
Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
Performs security recovery procedures.
Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements.
Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary.
Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements.
Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.
Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases.
Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security.
Assists in the selection of database management software.
Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data (via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards.
Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.