Database Lead Administrator

Biogen SANDBOX•Research Triangle Park, NC

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and versatile Database Lead Administrator who will be responsible for the overall architecture design, implementation, and maintenance of an evolving global large-scale, highly available, 24x7, enterprise IT Database services environment. Duties include the effective management of both Oracle and MS SQL Database Administrators.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of experience; 10+ years preferred
Excellent understanding of database platforms (Oracle / Oracle RAC / Exadata / MS SQL)
Strong ability to clearly and effectively communicate with all levels of staff and an established history and t

Nice To Haves

Automation experience desirable.

Responsibilities

Recommend, implement, and deliver Database Platform technology solutions based on analysis and business requirements.
Manage / Maintain Database Technology roadmaps, aligned with IT Strategy.
Taking ownership, and a focus on managing and resolving issues within SLA’s.
Establishing and maintaining constant communication with clients; planning, communicating and completing changes to large production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved.
Work with internal and external audit teams on SOX auditing requirements / develop and maintain SOX audit mitigation plans.
Develop processes and methodology for testing, deployment, and maintenance to ensure scalability, consistency, and maintainability in an effort to decrease restore time and increase availability.
Develop logging, metrics, and reporting programs to facilitate performance, security, monitoring, and predictive analysis.
Create and maintain documentation for database platform and instance configuration, system mappings, processes, and service records.
Produce reports and provide updates to the executive level of management on both positive performance and areas requiring improvement within the database technology areas.
Manage operational service provider resources to effectively keep the database environment running optimally.
Owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests
Leading and holding accountable a Managed Service Provider responsible for the day to day activities
Reviewing service reports (e.g. backups, maintenance and error logs and monitoring metrics) on a daily basis to ensure that service-related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs, working with the Managed Service Provider
Responding to database-related alerts and escalations and working with developers and systems engineers to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.
Coordinating with an experienced team of IT support engineers and database administrators
Manage operational service provider resources to effectively keep the Oracle & MS SQL environment running optimally.