Database Administrator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Minimum 5 years of database administration experience in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySql.
• Knowledge of business and management principles.
• Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations.
• Ability to establish department goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan.
• Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.
• Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.
• Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Manages the data dictionary of the enterprise.
• Sets standards and controls the necessary infrastructure process associated with the database(s).
• Provides troubleshooting and technical system support for the database programming group.
• Provides senior technical leadership to database design teams, database programming groups, and IT.
• Remains cognizant of the future direction of systems and on how that direction will impact the enterprise.
• Serves as a source of documentation and standards to help direct the activities of IT as a whole.
• Works closely with other IT groups to coordinate current and future plans and activities.
• Provides reports on system problems and solutions and forecasts future utilization and equipment requirements.
• Recognizes and identifies potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
• Makes presentations for local and national user groups.
• Publishes articles describing both the enterprise’s activities and assessments of technology.
• Collaborates with hardware and software vendors in the assessment of advanced transaction processing and database productions, including beta and field test participation.
• Performs at or above the enterprise’s information technology performance standards.
• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures.
• Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.
• Responsible for design, installation, management, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of database systems.
• Develop and assist project managers and directors with the creation of task-level project plans that detail the specific tasks required to deliver a solution.
• Develop, test, and implement system changes and upgrades.
• Develop, test, and implement database system backup, restore and DR processes.
• Document technical designs with charts, diagrams, schemas, and descriptive software component documentation.