Oracle Database Administrator

Founded 32 years ago, Allied Consultants is an Austin-based firm and premier provider of technical and business staffing solutions for the State of Texas.

We are currently seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to be a key resource on a technical services team for our client, the Texas Health and Human Service Commission (HHSC).

Location of job : Remote.

Candidates must reside within Texas.

Responsibilities

Level Description

4-7 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.

Job Description

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. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems.

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. 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.

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.

Additional job details and special considerations

This Database Administrator contractor position is part of the Administrative Applications Production Data Services team and will be working on the development and implementation of modifications and enhancements to the Financial Data Warehouse.

This position will perform the duties of database development will perform advanced database development tasks for databases used by an application with complex data models, workflows, and reports.

May be required to create new logical and physical data models. The role will involve working with Oracle databases. The candidate will optimize database performance during and after migration, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and implement monitoring solutions to track database health and performance metrics.

This position will develop new views, tables and PL / SQL code to be used by the customer of the Financial Data Warehouse application.

Will work on activities including, but not limited to the design, development, and testing of new tables, views, PL / SQL stored procedures and functions, and necessary loaders to support the project news.

Will develop and test Linux shell scripts to invoke database calls. Will develop and test scheduled jobs and shell scripts.

May perform performance tuning of new and existing tables, views, PL / SQL code. The role will involve working closely with the team to create and maintain logical and physical data models, with a primary focus on Oracle.

This role will require knowledge of Oracle Stored Procedures and Functions.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• 6 years experience in Oracle database design, analysis, and performance tuning
• 6 years experience in Oracle database structures and data analysis
• 6 years experience designing enterprise applications and / or services
• 6 years experience creating technical and functional design documentation
• 6 years experience within software development lifecycle using Agile methodology (Scrum, for example)
• 6 years experience with multi-tier system / application development (SOA, Microservices, 3-Tier applications, for example)

Preferred :

• 1 year Jira experience
• 1 year Oracle Certification
• 1 year experience with data warehouse applications and / or database reporting features

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas.

We are currently seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.

Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.

Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check

Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.