Database Administrator 2

Job Title: Database Administrator 2Location: Austin, TX 78751 (Hybrid, 3 days remote and onsite on Mondays & Tuesdays)Duration: Long-term ContractJob Description: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.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.Analyzes, designs, modifies, and maintains database structures.Designs and implements procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures.Establishes and implements database security controls and user access levels.Evaluates and recommends database software packages for potential acquisition.Prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for datadictionaries.Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.Performs database performance monitoring and implements efficiency improvements.Assists in modifying existing databases and database management systems.Assists in developing standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the database environmentCandidate Skills and Qualifications:YearsRequired/PreferredExperience5RequiredStrong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools5RequiredExtensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired5RequiredExperience in business objects and in building the data dictionary5RequiredAbility to use data base access tools for application delivery5RequiredStrong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions5RequiredWell-developed oral and written communications skills5RequiredStrong teamwork and interpersonal skills5RequiredExtremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult5RequiredUnderstanding of benchmarking processes and techniques5RequiredVery high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output5RequiredData Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models5RequiredGUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.5RequiredImplementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.5RequiredImplementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.5RequiredExperience 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.5RequiredImplementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.5RequiredExcellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.5RequiredProven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.5PreferredOracle Database experience5PreferredSSRS report creation1PreferredM204 database experience