Database Administrator

Link Technologies (LinkTechConsulting.com), a Las Vegas-based IT consulting firm, is currently seeking a Database Administrator to join our team in Austin, TX. This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days per week in office (Monday and Tuesday)
QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in the following areas:
  • Strong knowledge of dataset management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
  • Extensive experience in the development, implementation, and maintenance of data warehouse and data marts
  • Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
  • Ability to use database access tools for application delivery
  • Strong familiarity with analysis, planning, and management reporting functions
  • Well-developed oral and written communication skills
  • Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
  • Extremely high level analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
  • Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
  • Very high level interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
  • Data warehousing, data population, and data modeling technical for target structures and star schemas, snowflake schemas, and highly normalized data models
  • GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM websphere datastage, or similar tools
  • Implementation experience with enterprise class databases (e.g. Teradata, oracle, SQL server, or similar technologies)
  • Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools (e.g. business objects, cognos, hyperion, microstrategy, or similar tools)
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, team playing, oral/written communication skills
  • Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities

PREFERRED

• 5+ years of experience in the following areas:
  • Oracle database experience
  • SSRS report creation
• 1+ years of experience with M204 databases

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports the installation of database software and migrations to new data management system software levels, and tests the migrations to ensure data reliability and functionality
• Analyzes, designs, modifies, and maintains, and maintains database structures
• Designs and implements procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures
• Establishes and implements database security controls and user access levels
• Evaluates and recommends database software packages for potential acquisition
• Prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for data dictionaries
• Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models
• Performs database performance monitoring and implements efficiency improvements
• Assists in modifying existing database and database management systems
• Assists in developing standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the database environment

Link Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors protected by law.