Senior Oracle Database Administrator

ROI Solutions; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead strategy and evolution of our Oracle environment. You will own architecture standards, multi-year modernization, and cloud adoption while ensuring performance, security, and observability across production and non-production systems.

The role emphasizes mentorship, governance, and collaboration with product reliability, security engineering, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and resilient database

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration experience supporting complex production environments.
• Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• Working familiarity with PL/SQL sufficient to review, troubleshoot, and advise on database-resident code.
• Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning and testing.
• Experience with database security, auditing, access management, and compliance-oriented environments such as PCI.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across applications and database infrastructure.
• Experience developing or executing Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS (Oracle DB@AWS).
• Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, or other cloud-native database technologies.
• Experience evaluating when workloads should remain on Oracle versus transition to alternative database platforms.
• Experience with data pipeline and transformation technologies.
• Experience with Datadog or comparable database monitoring and observability platforms.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or comparable Oracle certification.
• Experience with SaaS, transaction-intensive, fundraising, payment, or other mission-critical software platforms.
• Experience automating database administration, monitoring, deployment, or operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Set database architecture standards and guide technical decisions across ROI's products and platforms.
• Own the multi-year roadmap for capacity, technical debt, and database modernization.
• Evaluate database technologies and cloud services based on reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior technical ownership and escalation support for Oracle production and non-production environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting with developers.
• Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant incidents and participate in a shared on-call rotation.
• Define practical standards for database architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• Review significant schema changes, migrations, procedural objects, and database designs.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve database quality and performance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop a pragmatic modernization strategy for ROI's mature Oracle environment and evolving product architecture.
• Evaluate Oracle on AWS, cloud-native services, and alternative database platforms for appropriate workloads.
• Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce technical debt and complexity.
• Serve as a senior database resource and mentor engineers in relational design, SQL performance, and database best practices.
• Create documentation, training, reusable patterns, and automation that strengthen shared database knowledge.
• Provide database expertise for data pipelines, client conversions, migrations, and significant product initiatives.
• Partner with data and engineering teams on scalable, secure, and efficient data movement across platforms and external systems.
• Serve as the senior technical partner to ROI's database managed services provider.

Skills

Oracle performance tuning

SQL optimization

Query plan analysis

RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

ASM

Exadata

Partitioning

PL/SQL

Data modeling

Backup & recovery

High availability

Security & PCI

Cloud migration

AWS workloads

Datadog

OCP

Data pipelines

Observability

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora

Oracle DB@AWS

Job description

About the Role ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you'll combine deep Oracle expertise with a pragmatic approach to modernization, shaping architecture and technical standards while advancing performance, reliability, security, automation, observability, resiliency, and cloud adoption. You will collaborate with our Product Reliability and Security Engineering, Product, and Product Engineering teams, along with our managed services partner, to ensure ROI's database platforms remain secure, scalable, and prepared for the future.You identify issues and opportunities, establish priorities, and move important work forward in partnership with the broader organization.You understand that good technical governance should improve quality and reduce risk without unnecessarily slowing engineering teams.You make risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and progress visible to colleagues and leadership.Your success is measured not only by the difficult problems you solve personally, but also by the capabilities you help build across the organization.You understand that mature platforms cannot simply be replaced overnight. You can protect what works today while creating a better architecture for tomorrow.You document, automate, teach, and build processes that make the entire organization stronger.

Database Strategy & Architecture

• ~ Set database architecture standards and guide technical decisions across ROI's products and platforms.
• ~ Own the multi-year roadmap for capacity, technical debt, and database modernization.
• ~ Evaluate database technologies and cloud services based on reliability, scalability, security, and cost.

Performance, Reliability & Resiliency

• ~ Provide senior technical ownership and escalation support for Oracle production and non-production environments.
• ~ Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting with developers.
• ~ Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• ~ Lead root-cause analysis for significant incidents and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Database Standards & Governance

• ~ Define practical standards for database architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• ~ Review significant schema changes, migrations, procedural objects, and database designs.
• ~ Partner with engineering teams to improve database quality and performance throughout the development lifecycle.

Database Modernization

• ~ Develop a pragmatic modernization strategy for ROI's mature Oracle environment and evolving product architecture.
• ~ Evaluate Oracle on AWS, cloud-native services, and alternative database platforms for appropriate workloads.
• ~ Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce technical debt and complexity.

Strengthen Internal Database Capability

• ~ Serve as a senior database resource and mentor engineers in relational design, SQL performance, and database best practices.
• ~ Create documentation, training, reusable patterns, and automation that strengthen shared database knowledge.

Support Data & Product Initiatives

• ~ Provide database expertise for data pipelines, client conversions, migrations, and significant product initiatives.
• ~ Partner with data and engineering teams on scalable, secure, and efficient data movement across platforms and external systems.

Serve as the senior technical partner to ROI's database managed services provider.

Define responsibilities, escalation paths, service expectations, and SLAs, and regularly assess service quality.Evaluate database-related vendors, technologies, and services as needed.

8+ years of Oracle database administration experience supporting complex production environments.

• ~ Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
• ~ Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• ~ Working familiarity with PL/SQL sufficient to review, troubleshoot, and advise on database-resident code.
• ~ Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
• ~ Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning and testing.
• ~ Experience with database security, auditing, access management, and compliance-oriented environments such as PCI.
• ~ Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across applications and database infrastructure.
• ~ Experience developing or executing Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• ~ Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS (Oracle DB@AWS).
• ~ Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, or other cloud-native database technologies.
• ~ Experience evaluating when workloads should remain on Oracle versus transition to alternative database platforms.
• ~ Experience with data pipeline and transformation technologies.
• ~ Experience with Datadog or comparable database monitoring and observability platforms.
• ~ Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or comparable Oracle certification.
• ~ Experience with SaaS, transaction-intensive, fundraising, payment, financial, or other mission-critical software platforms.
• ~ Experience automating database administration, monitoring, deployment, or operational processes.

Limited travel. Generally fewer than five trips per year for in-person team, planning, or company meetings.

This role is posted as remote, but it could be hybrid or in-office if that best fits your working style.

ROI Solutions was founded in 1999 to help nonprofit organizations change the world through innovative technology solutions and services. We are focused on sustainable growth, hiring staff committed to working with the nonprofit sector, and constantly evolving our technology and services to help nonprofits succeed in their missions with passion and purpose. We're committed to this model and the opportunity it provides us to develop our solutions based on needs in the nonprofit sector.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.