Database Administrator III
About The Position
D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information. D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for an Database Administrator III. The right candidate will be responsible to keep the database up and running smoothly 24/7. Responsible to provide a seamless flow of information throughout the company, considering both backend data structure and frontend accessibility for end-users.
Requirements
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Seven to ten years of experience as a Production SQL Server DBA and Database Architect for very large databases (over 1TB of data in a single database)
- Seven to ten years of T-SQL experience
- Strong skills in Windows PowerShell or similar scripting language
- Superb troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Ability to multi-task and provide attention to detail
- Proficiency with MS Office and email
Nice To Haves
- Associate degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) is preferred
Responsibilities
- Ownership of design, documentation, implementation and continuous maintenance of database policies and procedures
- Analyze key performance indicators and recommend improvements
- Oversee and perform the daily monitoring and analysis of databases and database servers to ensure the continuance of operations
- Manage and perform database performance analysis and tuning to ensure optimal system performance. Major areas of support in this area will include sizing, throughput, scalability, and dependability
- Ensure the security of databases
- Perform and oversee regular backups of all databases and database servers
- Perform and guide restorations of backups in case of system failure or data loss
- Review and oversee all changes to existing production databases to ensure that such changes do not negatively impact database performance or reliability
- Work with software developers to design and implement new database schemas, stored procedures, user defined functions, data transformation service packages, scheduled jobs, etc.
- Oversee and promote database changes through software development lifecycle process
- Ensure the pre-defined development standards for naming conventions, user interface, etc. are followed
- Conducts all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
- Work with users to determine requirements and design for systems
- Estimate time and materials needed to create new or modify existing databases
- Manage the process to migrate data from existing databases to new databases or between database environments
- Ability to participate in on call rotation
- Ability to travel overnight
- Fully in office Monday- Friday
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401(K)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flex Spending Accounts
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
- Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
