Database Administrator IV

Job Title: Database Administrator IV

Location: Buffalo, NY

Employment: Contract (15 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $ 70.00 /hour 

Schedule: 40 hours /week

About the Opportunity:

• We're looking for an experienced RDBMS Architect to provide strategic technical leadership across complex projects, application enhancements, and enterprise-wide initiatives. You'll partner with application owners, technology teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to design effective database solutions, address performance and reliability needs, and provide expert guidance on long-term technology strategy.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability 
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries 
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work 
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates 

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Serve as the RDBMS subject matter expert and architect for complex projects, translating business requirements into scalable, efficient database solutions and recommending technologies, designs, and process improvements.
• Partner with application owners and technology leadership to develop short- and long-term strategies, assess vendor products, anticipate future requirements, and advise on the technical and operational impact of proposed changes.
• Lead or oversee complex project execution, production support, testing, issue resolution, and integrated testing activities to ensure reliable solutions with minimal risk and disruption.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to less-experienced team members while collaborating with vendors, architecture teams, and internal stakeholders to strengthen technical capabilities and support staff development.
• Own and support business continuity, auditing, risk, regulatory, and internal-control activities while identifying opportunities to improve application performance, reliability, efficiency, and overall technology value.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 8 years of experience in RDBMS
• Minimum 10 years of experience in working simultaneously on multiple projects of a complex nature.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in leading large system and RDBMS enhancements, conversions, and production problem resolution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in working with others to independently connect disparate ideas into cohesive solutions.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in leading problem-solving efforts and lead in issue resolution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in SQL 
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Modern data design (ex. Medallion Architecture)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Cloud Data solutions (ex. Azure, Snowflake)

What Sets You Apart:

• Associate Degree.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience with Bank applications, framework, business needs and RDBMS direction and framework.
• Awareness of the Bank's standards, business plan and strategic objectives with the ability to shape direction.
• Proven mentoring and leadership capabilities in RDBMS project analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and tuning efforts.
• Mastery level understanding of multiple RDBMS skills, tools and functions with advanced knowledge of operating systems.
• Previous experience in banking RDBMS support.
• CAPPM experience.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong task management skills.
• Mastery with RDBMS skills, tools and functions and familiarity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong lateral thinking skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to understand businesses supported and their terminology.
• Ability to encourage teamwork and serve as role model when leading and directing others.
• Ability to understand technical, business and operational impacts of a project or problem.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check

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