Sr. Database Administrator

Job title: Sr. Database Administrator (Oracle)
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: Long term


Job 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. Ability to maintain the security and integrity of critical infrastructure systems by preventing unauthorized access and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations related to national security and foreign ownership restrictions.
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. DISCLAIMER: Candidates for this position will be subject to a pre-employment security review to determine employment eligibility.


1. 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.
2. Analyzes, designs, modifies, and maintains database structures.
3. Designs and implements procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures.
4. Establishes and implements database security controls and user access levels.
5. Evaluates and recommends database software packages for potential acquisition.
6. Prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for data
7. dictionaries.
8. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
9. Performs database performance monitoring and implements efficiency improvements.
10. Assists in modifying existing databases and database management systems.
11. Assists in developing standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the database environment



Required skills:

• 5 years Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
• 5 years of Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
• 5 years of Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
• 5 years of Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
• 5 years of Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
• 5 years of Well-developed oral and written communications skills
• 5 years of Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• 5 years of Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
• 5 years Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
• 5 years Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
• 5 years of Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
• 5 years of GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
• 5 years of Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
• 5 years of Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5 years of Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading, Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL.
• 5 years of Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5 years of Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
• 5 years of Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.

Preferred skills:

• 5 years of Oracle Database experience
• 5 years of SSRS report creation
• 1 year M204 database experience