Database Administrator

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Database Administrator to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

5 years of:

• Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
• Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
• Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
• Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
• Well-developed oral and written communications skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
• Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
• Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
• Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as 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, etc. or similar technologies.
• Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 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.
• Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.

Preferred:

5 years of:

• Oracle Database experience
• SSRS report creation

1 year of:

• M204 database experience

Overview

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
• Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
• Life insurance
• A 401(K) plan with company match
• Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.