Database Manager

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

55-a Program eligibility

Job summary

City of New York seeks a highly experienced Computer Specialist (Software) IV to perform expert database administration, design data models for cloud and hybrid environments, and lead end-to-end data integration with Azure SQL, SSIS, and Power BI. The role emphasizes security, performance tuning, and outage response, with supervisory responsibilities noted from prior positions.

The position involves maintaining SQL Server clusters, implementing backups/recovery, and coordinating with development

Qualifications

• 7+ years proficiency with Microsoft Azure SQL development, SQL server DBA roles, Microsoft SQL server Management Studio, Microsoft Power BI, Reporting services and SQL server Database Administration 2016, 2019, and
• 7+ years proficiency in development and maintenance of Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, SQL statements., database connections, coding and design
• 6+ years proficiency in database administrator role.
• Performance Tuning including tuning/optimizing SQL, backup,
• A plus: knowledge of AI tools, Copilot, Windows environments, and cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, related Microsoft certification)
• 4+ years supervisory experience required

Responsibilities

• Supervisory role in past job experiences
• Database Architecture, designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for cloud and hybrid environments.
• Design, develop, automate, implement, and maintain database best practice standards, policies and procedures for ensuring the security and preserving data integrity.
• Data Integration & ETL, building modern data pipelines using ADF, or legacy SSIS environments. Create and optimize highly transactional queries, writing complex stored procedures, SQL Jobs, Power BI, SSRS, SSIS packages interface with multiple data sources.
• Install, maintain and configure SQL Server and Windows/SQL server failover cluster and Always On for various SQL environments (dev, staging and Prod).
• Implement data models and database designs, table maintenance and data access at REST and encryption.
• Monitor and respond to production issues, outages and identify enhancements needed to fix bugs (including off-hours).
• Security and compliance, perform regular security patch updates to ensure cyber security measures are intact and manage user permissions on database level. Implementing data masking, row-level security, encryption, and controlling role-based network access
• Performance Tuning and troubleshooting SQL databases, monitoring database metrics to eliminate execution bottlenecks by optimizing indexes, execution plans, and memory distribution.
• Create, manage and modify database SSRS reporting services and data mining
• Document database processes and solutions and develop all technical aspects needed to implement SQL.
• Work with the development and management teams to ensure successful development of business, functional, and technical specifications.
• Design and implement maintenance plan, backup & recovery system.

Skills

Azure SQL development

SQL Server DBA

Power BI

SSRS

SSIS

ASP.NET

C#.NET

Tools

SQL Server

Azure

SSRS/SSIS

Job description

Candidates must be permanent in the Computer Specialist (Software) civil service title to apply

Working highly independently with great judgement and without supervision, the individual will be responsible for performing various complex tasks highly technical in nature and responsibilities in applications development, planning, designing, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, integrating, performance monitoring, maintaining, enhancing, security management, and support complex computer applications programs.

Computer Specialists (Software) at this level 4 perform related work, including expert end user support, work independently on their own, be extremely knowledgeable of technical environment used at Law, Law’s application system recovery, system up-keep, automation of system monitoring tasks, ensure high system availability and, when necessary, perform the duties of related or lower titles and Assignment Levels. Served as a supervisor as part of past experience.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Required to serve in a capacity for supervisory role as part of past job experiences
• Database Architecture, designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for cloud and hybrid environments.
• Perform tasks to design, develop, automate, implement, and maintain database best practice standards, policies and procedures for ensuring the security and preserving data integrity.
• Data Integration & ETL, building modern data pipelines using ADF, or legacy SSIS environments. Create and optimize highly transactional queries, writing complex stored procedures, SQL Jobs, Power BI, SSRS, SSIS packages interface with multiple data sources.
• Install, maintain and configure SQL Server and Windows/SQL server failover cluster and Always On for various SQL environments (dev, staging and Prod).
• Implement data models and database designs, table maintenance and data access at REST and encryption.
• Monitor and respond to production issues, outages and identify enhancements needed to fix bugs (including off-hours).
• Security and compliance, perform regular security patch updates to ensure cyber security measures are intact and manage user permissions on database level. Implementing data masking, row-level security, encryption, and controlling role-based network access
• Performance Tuning and troubleshooting SQL databases, monitoring database metrics to eliminate execution bottlenecks by optimizing indexes, execution plans, and memory distribution.
• Create, manage and modify database SSRS reporting services and data mining
• Document database processes and solutions and develop all technical aspects needed to implement SQL.
• Work with the development and management teams to ensure successful development of business, functional, and technical specifications.
• Design and implement maintenance plan, backup & recovery system.

Requirements Description

• 7+ years proficiency with Microsoft Azure SQL development, SQL server DBA roles, Microsoft SQL server Management Studio, Microsoft Power BI, Reporting services and SQL server Database Administration 2016, 2019, and
• 7+ years proficiency in development and maintenance of Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, SQL statements., database connections, coding and design
• 6+ years proficiency in database administrator role.
• Performance Tuning including tuning/optimizing SQL, backup,
• A plus: knowledge of AI tools, Copilot, Windows environments, and cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, related Microsoft certification)
• 4+ years supervisory experience required

COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) - 13632

NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification

Special Note

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.

Preferred Skills

This position requires at least 7 years of experience as a Microsoft full stack developer preferred: this includes but not limited to: Office 365, SharePoint- Visual Studio.NET, Azure Portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, Schema migration management using Git, Azure DevOps pipelines, and tools like Redgate Utilizing JSON manipulation, REST API endpoints, and Vector Database extensions for AI application integration, ASP.NET, VB.NET - C#.NET - Object Oriented Design, MS SQL development and administration, SSRS/SSIS implementation MS Team Foundation Server /GitHub - MS Azure DevOps, Dynamic CRM, MS power platform, power automation, GitHub, DevOps, Python, Power platform Power BI, Power Apps, Microsoft Flow, Power Automate, Azure Logic apps, Azure AI design, develop web UI screens with JSON, JSP, AJAX and JQUERY to provide interactive screens to display data. HTML, XML, CSS, jQuery and JavaScript, InfoPath. Database Manager may be required to work various shifts including nights, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

55a Program

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

, $114,930.00 – $159,151.00