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.
