Database Administrator 3

Database Administrator 3

Austin, TX

3 months Contract with possibility to extension

Skills/Roles and Responsibilities:

• Enters codes to create production database.
• 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.

Candidate Skills and Qualifications:

Years - Required/Preferred - Experience Implementing, administering, managing, and monitoring the assigned application databases in production & non-production environments. Ensure that data integrity and data security is maintained.

Years - Preferred - Experience working on or leading large, complex initiatives to design and implement performance tuning improvements and advise developers on tuning options. Experience using Explain Plan and determine best fit plan for performance improvement

Years - Preferred - Experience supporting cross functional development teams to identify data as well as the relationships and constraints on the data to help optimize application/query performance.

Years - Preferred - In-depth knowledge of Oracle internal views, built-in functions and architecture to support data analysis and data query and familiar with Tablespace consolidation, DBMS reorg, partition analysis and index analysis.

Years - Preferred - Proven ability to analyze and resolve complex issues both in development and production databases using Oracle 11/19c databases and work with cross functional teams.

Years - Preferred - Hands on experience monitoring/troubleshooting and fine tuning SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle databases version on Solaris/Linux systems

Years - Preferred - Experience using Oracle native tool such as Oracle SQL Developer

Years - Preferred - Hands on experience using Erwin Modeling tool to create from scratch data models using data modeling techniques including star schema.

Years - Preferred - Experience developing tools using SQL, PL/SQL and linux shell scripts to provide LDBA support for large numbers of test & development database environments and apply best practice to create DDL, DML SQL and shell scripts.