Database Administrator 2 (Contract)

ABX Industries; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled database professional to manage and optimize production databases. In this role, you'll be responsible for creating, modifying, and monitoring database systems to ensure high performance and data integrity. You'll work closely with programmers and analysts to implement changes and provide technical support. This position offers a blend of remote and on-site work, making it ideal for local candidates looking to contribute to impactful projects in a collaborative environment. If you have a passion for database management and a strong background in Oracle systems, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum of six years experience in Oracle database design and performance tuning.
• Experience in Agile methodology and multi-tier application development.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage production databases, ensuring performance and integrity.
• Modify database programs for performance tuning and assist in security procedures.

Skills

Oracle database design

Performance tuning

Data analysis

Enterprise application design

Technical documentation

Agile methodology

Multi-tier application development

Tools

JIRA

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Job Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will enter codes to create a production database. Selects and enters codes of utility programs to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory.
• Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to database management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions.
• Conferences with coworkers to determine the impact of database changes on other systems and staff costs for making changes to database.
• Modifies database programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of database 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.

Candidate Skills and Qualifications

To be considered for this opportunity, the ideal candidate must possess a minimum of six (6) years of work experience in the following:

• Experience in Oracle database design, analysis, and performance tuning
• Experience in Oracle database structures, data analysis, performance tuning
• Experience designing enterprise applications and/or services
• Experience creating technical and functional design documentation
• Experience within software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology – (Scrum, for example)
• Experience with multi-tier system/application development – (SOA, Microservices, 3-Tier applications, for example)

The following skills/experience are PREFERRED, but not required:

• Four (4) years experience with data warehouse applications and/or database reporting features
• One (1) year experience with JIRA
• One (1) year of Oracle Certification

Work Location

This position will be 60% Remote and 40% On-site (Monday and Friday), requiring in-person presence at the client's office in Austin, TX. There will be no relocation for this role. Local candidates or surrounding cities only.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

Business Consulting and Services