Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Buffalo, NY / Remote

Hire Type : Contingent

Hourly : $40.92 - $68.19

Work Model : Hybrid

No C2C or sponsorship offered

Positional Overview

Are you a meticulous Database Administrator looking for your next exciting challenge? Join our client’s dynamic team, where your expertise in database management will be valued and rewarded.

Our client offers a collaborative work environment and cutting-edge technology. You'll play a crucial role in maintaining, optimizing, and securing their database systems, ensuring seamless operations and data integrity.

Apply now to be a part of our forward-thinking organization!

Role & Responsibility :

• Provide technical leadership.
• Complete and oversee basic to complex database analysis, design and development efforts.
• Develop plans for database implementation, data source integration and data archiving and recovery.
• Manage, direct, oversee and / or review execution of small to large size / risk project plans on assigned applications and ensure complete understanding of tasks and dependencies and mitigation of issues.
• Contribute to advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state-of-the-art technical or industry knowledge.
• Maintain a strong functional understanding of supported applications. Maintain a current understanding of the business environment supported to provide expert guidance for technical, business and operational impacts associated with a project or production problem.
• Recommend RDBMS designs based on business requirements, technology roadmap, RDBMS functionality, knowledge of interfacing technology and clear understanding of customer expectations.
• Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among RDBMS, interfacing applications and operating systems.
• Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of database technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives.
• Prepare thorough and clear technical specifications, and update systems, standards and RDBMS process documentation.
• Prepare and review assessments to include required tasks, estimated time frames and effort for small to large size / risk scope project.
• Build positive client relationships by addressing client needs in a manner that safeguards their business and customers, with minimal complexity, risks and costs.
• Build rapport within the organization and across other technical teams.
• Assist with coordination of annual disaster recovery exercises and remediate issues.
• Assist others on project execution and production support for all applications and project sizes.
• Work with internal and external application and technology stakeholders to review status of initiatives, compliance / regulatory changes, planned or potential vendor changes and contractual and / or system maintenance changes.
• Ensure identification and resolution of issues and concerns related to discretionary enhancement requests, application reliability changes and / or production problem resolution.
• Identify new technology that increases technical support efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide functional feedback to internal application owners and technology stakeholders on current or proposed RDBMS to extent it supports predefined business needs.
• Identify performance and effectiveness enhancement opportunities and recommend new policies and procedures that support improvement.
• Participate in ADBS Center of Excellence teams goals and deliverables.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.

Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the brand.
• Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Skills & Experience :

• Associates degree and 6 years Database Development / Administration experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and / or work experience, including a minimum of 6 years Database Development / Administration experience.
• Strong experienced in performance debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Well versed in most SQL DBMS concepts and tasks including
• Experience with PowerShell and Python or similar languages with the ability / mindset to quickly come up to speed on new languages.
• ACF 2 experience is desirable.
• Experience with Ansible for automation (nice to have)
• Azure, nice to have KQL or CICE (nice to have)
• Good general overall IT knowledge on adjacent technologies (networking, storage, etc.) as they specifically relate to databases.
• Proficiency with Database tools and functions.
• Experience working with large system and Database enhancements, conversions and production problem resolution.
20 days ago