Database Administrator (DBA) with Data Warehouse

ALIS Software•Austin, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, ensuring consistency between application design and database structure. The role requires evaluating user requests for new data elements, incorporating them into the existing data environment, and providing technical assistance. Key responsibilities include coordinating data usage for integrity and redundancy control, loading and reorganizing databases, performing data modeling (logical and physical), designing relational models, and creating physical models from logical ones. The DBA will also manage security recovery procedures, determine database search strategies and storage requirements, maintain the data dictionary, monitor database performance, and recommend improvements. A crucial aspect is creating and managing test database environments, including necessary libraries and procedures. The role also involves executing procedures for saving, retrieving, and recovering databases from failures, assisting with database security standards, monitoring disaster recovery procedures, and supporting the installation and analysis of database software. Additionally, the DBA will aid in benchmarking, threshold testing, and establishing database security, as well as in selecting database management software. A working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies is required, ensuring user interfaces are compliant and providing support for data access when accessibility issues arise.

Requirements

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.
5 Years Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
5 Years Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
5 Years Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
5 Years Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
5 Years Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
5 Years Well-developed oral and written communications skills
5 Years Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
5 Years Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
5 Years Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
5 Years Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
5 Years Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
5 Years GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
5 Years Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
5 Years Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
5 Years 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
5 Years Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
5 Years Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
5 Years Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Preferred Oracle Database experience
Preferred 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 data base management system.
Reviews and corrects programs.
Answers user questions.
Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.
Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning.
Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring 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.