DBA

Nexiva•Austin, TX

1d•$60•Hybrid

About The Position

The DBA with Data Warehouse Management role requires strong knowledge of database management systems, data warehouse management, and decision support tools. The position involves extensive experience in the development, implementation, and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts. The candidate will utilize data base access tools for application delivery and demonstrate strong familiarity with analysis, planning, and management reporting functions. This role requires a high level of analytical ability to handle unusual and difficult problems, understanding of benchmarking processes, and excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively with others and motivate employees. The position also involves data warehousing data population and data modeling techniques (Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, highly normalized data models), experience with GUI based ETL tools (Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar), and implementation experience with enterprise-class databases (Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) and analytical/reporting tools (Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, etc.). The role requires experience with the entire data warehouse implementation process, including business requirements, logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing, data transformation, data loading, SQL, end-user tools, and database/SQL. The candidate must have proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities. Experience with Oracle Database, SSRS report creation, and M204 database is also required. The job description emphasizes the ability to maintain the security and integrity of critical infrastructure systems, prevent unauthorized access, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. Responsibilities include entering codes to create production databases, monitoring database performance, directing changes to the data base management system, reviewing and correcting programs, answering user questions, conferring with coworkers on the impact of database changes, and modifying database programs for performance tuning. The role involves providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, ensuring consistency between application design phases and database parameters. It also includes evaluating user requests for new data elements and systems, incorporating them into the existing data environment, and providing technical assistance. Coordination of data usage for integrity and redundancy control, database loading, and reorganization are key. The position requires performing data modeling and prototyping, logical and physical data modeling, designing relational database models, and creating physical data models. Security recovery procedures, determining and implementing database search strategies and storage requirements, and maintaining the data dictionary are also part of the role. Monitoring database performance, recommending efficiency improvements, creating test database environments, and executing procedures for database saving, retrieval, and recovery are essential. The role assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing database security standards, monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures, and assisting with database software installation, analysis, design, and implementation. Benchmarking and threshold testing of databases, establishing and controlling database security, and assisting in the selection of database management software are also included. Knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies is required, ensuring user interfaces are compliant and providing support for data access issues related to accessibility. Candidates will be subject to a pre-employment security review.

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 is desired
Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
Ability to use data base 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.
Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
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.
Oracle Database experience
SSRS report creation
M204 database experience
5-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Ability to maintain the security and integrity of critical infrastructure systems by preventing unauthorized access and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations related to national security and foreign ownership restrictions.
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 (preferred)

Responsibilities

Supports the installation of database software and migrations to new data management system software levels, and tests the migrations to ensure data reliability and functionality.
Analyzes, designs, modifies, and maintains database structures.
Designs and implements procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures.
Establishes and implements database security controls and user access levels.
Evaluates and recommends database software packages for potential acquisition.
Prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for data dictionaries.
Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
Performs database performance monitoring and implements efficiency improvements.
Assists in modifying existing databases and database management systems.
Assists in developing standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the database environment.
Enters codes to create production data base.
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.