Senior Database Administrator

Allied Consultants, Inc.•Austin, TX

About The Position

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Senior Database Administrator to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including: Highly competitive pay rates Local support staff for responsive, personal service Comprehensive benefits package, including: Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing) Life insurance A 401(K) plan with company match Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks. Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Requirements

10 Years Required: Database experience
8 Years Required: Experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL - (or similar)
8 Years Required: Experience with Relational Database Administration - (SQL Server or Oracle, for example)
8 Years Required: Experience in database design, analysis and performance tuning
8 Years Required: Experience in database structures, data analysis, performance tuning
8 Years Required: Experience designing enterprise applications and/or services
8 Years Required: Experience creating technical and functional design documentation
8 Years Required: Experience within software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology – (Scrum, for example)
8 Years Required: Experience with multi-tier system/application development – (SOA, Microservices, 3-Tier applications, for example)
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.
Working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies.

Nice To Haves

6 Years Preferred: Experience with large volume databases, high availability, and disaster recovery infrastructure
6 Years Preferred: Experience with Azure
3 Years Preferred: Ability to Extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into Azure SQL
3 Years Preferred: Experience in DevOps technology including CI/CD pipeline and build and deployment tools such as Git
3 Years Preferred: Experience in Java/J2EE Enterprise Development
1 Year Preferred: Azure certification is preferred
1 Year Preferred: DBA Associate certifications are preferred

Responsibilities

Perform advanced database administration tasks for databases used by applications with complex data models, workflows, and reports.
Assist the team in creating and maintaining logical and physical data models.
Work with Full-stack Java applications on client’s cloud platform (Azure/AWS) within an Agile (Scrum) environment.
Migrate data from Oracle applications to SQL schemas and load it into collections.
Optimize database performance during and after migration.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
Implement monitoring solutions to track database health and performance metrics.
Perform database tuning, indexing, customization, transformation, data migrations/conversions, installations, troubleshooting, upgrades, patching, user management, security of data at rest and in motion, disaster recovery, clustering for high availability and load balancing, data backup, purging and archiving, implementation of database policies, data replication and backup to secondary sites like disaster recovery environments, procedures for the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the sensitive and business-critical databases.
Work closely with the team to create and maintain logical and physical data models, with a primary focus on Oracle and Azure Microsoft SQL.
Convert Oracle Stored Procedures and Functions to Azure SQL.
Enter codes to create production data base.
Select and enter codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory.
Direct programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system.
Review and correct programs.
Answer user questions.
Confer with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.
Modify data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning.
Provide 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.
Evaluate users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporate them into the existing shared data environment, and provide technical assistance.
Coordinate the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, load databases, and reorganize as needed.
Perform data modeling and prototyping.
Perform logical and physical data modeling, design relational database models, and create physical data models from logical data models.
Perform security recovery procedures.
Determine and implement database search strategies and storage requirements.
Maintain data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and set standards for use of data dictionary.
Monitor database performance and recommend efficiency improvements.
Create test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
Execute the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
Assist with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.
Assist with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases.
Assist in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security.
Assist in the selection of database management software.
Ensure that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards.
Provide support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.