Database Administrator 2

Ampcus Inc. • Austin, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides database administration, development, maintenance, performance monitoring, security, recovery, and data modeling support for enterprise database environments.

Requirements

• Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming.
• Knowledge of computer programming and systems design principles, practices, and techniques.
• Knowledge of computer operations, systems, and procedures.
• Knowledge of project control and cost estimating techniques.
• Knowledge of computer programming languages.
• Knowledge of data processing flowcharting techniques.
• Knowledge of database structures and theories.
• Knowledge of current database technologies.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards and assistive technologies.
• Strong database management systems knowledge, including data warehouse management and decision support tools.
• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining data warehouses and data marts.
• Experience with Business Objects and building data dictionaries.
• Ability to use database access tools for application delivery.
• Strong familiarity with analysis, planning, and management reporting functions.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Extremely high analytical ability to address unusual and highly difficult problems.
• Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output.
• Knowledge of data warehouse data population and data modeling techniques, including Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models.
• Experience with GUI-based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
• Implementation experience with enterprise-class databases such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, or similar technologies.
• Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, or similar tools.
• Experience with the data warehouse implementation process, including business requirements, logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and transformation, data loading, SQL, end-user tools, database administration, and SQL performance.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, teamwork, oral, and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
• 5+ years of experience with database management systems, data warehouse management, and decision support tools.
• 5+ years of experience developing, implementing, and maintaining data warehouses and data marts.
• 5+ years of experience with Business Objects and data dictionary development.
• 5+ years of experience using database access tools for application delivery.
• 5+ years of experience with analysis, planning, and management reporting functions.
• 5+ years of experience with data warehouse data population and modeling techniques.
• 5+ years of experience with GUI-based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
• 5+ years of experience implementing enterprise-class databases such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, or similar technologies.
• 5+ years of experience implementing analytical and reporting tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, or similar technologies.
• 5+ years of experience with end-to-end data warehouse implementation processes, including requirements, modeling, database design, data sourcing, transformation, loading, SQL, and end-user tools.
• 5+ years of experience demonstrating strong analytical, problem-solving, teamwork, and communication skills.
• 5+ years of experience working effectively with technical and non-technical groups and managing multiple responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

• Oracle Database experience.
• Power BI report creation experience.

Responsibilities

• Enters codes to create production databases.
• Selects and enters utility program codes to monitor database performance, including record distribution and available memory.
• Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to database management systems.
• Reviews and corrects programs.
• Answers user questions and provides technical assistance.
• Confers with coworkers to determine the impact of database changes on other systems and staff costs associated with database changes.
• Modifies database programs to increase processing performance through performance tuning.
• Provides assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems.
• Ensures conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with structural parameters within the database environment.
• Evaluates requests for new data elements and systems and incorporates them into the existing shared data environment.
• Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy.
• Loads and reorganizes databases 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 and recovery procedures.
• Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements.
• Maintains the data dictionary, ensuring uniformity of definitions and establishing standards for its use.
• Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements.
• Creates test database environments for application teams, including necessary libraries and procedures.
• Executes procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
• Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing database security standards.
• Assists with monitoring disaster recovery procedures and systems.
• Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases.
• Assists in database benchmarking and threshold testing.
• Assists with establishing and controlling database security.
• Assists in the selection of database management software.
• Ensures database administration and data input, viewing, and output interfaces comply with accessibility standards.
• Provides support to users in obtaining data and information when accessibility issues arise.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed