Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with internal application owners to assess business needs and suggest RDBMS modifications

• Foster strong relationships with clients, organizations, vendors, and professionals

• Evaluate vendors and products, providing informed recommendations

• Convert business requirements into functional database specifications

• Propose RDBMS designs for improvements, efficiency initiatives, and solutions to production issues

• Proactively identify design challenges and concerns

• Offer expert advice on technical, business, and operational effects

• Mentor and train less experienced staff

• Manage, supervise, and review intricate project plans, tasks, dependencies, and mitigation of issues

• Assist in project execution and provide production support for applications

• Review status of initiatives, compliance and regulatory changes, vendor updates, and maintenance changes with technology stakeholders

• Act as a subject matter expert in RDBMS functionality and testing

• Coordinate integrated testing and address test-environment challenges

• Ensure the resolution of enhancement, reliability, and production-related issues

• Recommend new RDBMS technologies, policies, and procedures

• Provide input on vendor software and database modifications

• Identify opportunities for performance and effectiveness improvements

• Uphold internal control standards and implement audit and regulatory action items

• Recognize risk-related issues for escalation

• Represent technical interests on committees and ad-hoc projects

• Contribute to departmental strategies, solution design, and resource allocation

• Serve as backup for more experienced staff and perform additional assigned responsibilities

⛳️ Requirements

• Associate degree and at least 8 years of RDBMS experience, OR a total of at least 10 years of higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 8 years in RDBMS

• Previous experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously

• Experience in leading large-scale system and RDBMS enhancements, conversions, and resolutions to production problems

• Strong project management capabilities

• Proficient task management skills

• Experience in leading problem-solving initiatives and resolving issues

• Expertise in RDBMS skills, tools, and functions

• Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities

• Strong analytical, decision-making, organizational, and time management skills

• Excellent lateral thinking abilities

• Experience in synthesizing disparate ideas into cohesive solutions

• Outstanding presentation skills

• At least 3 years of experience with banking applications, frameworks, business needs, and RDBMS direction and frameworks (preferred)

• Bachelor's degree or higher (preferred)

• Demonstrated mentoring and leadership skills in RDBMS project analysis, design, development, troubleshooting, and tuning (preferred)

• Advanced mastery of multiple RDBMS skills, tools, and functions with in-depth knowledge of operating systems (preferred)

• Prior experience in banking RDBMS support (preferred)

• Experience with CAPPM (preferred)

• Ability to comprehend supported businesses and their terminology

• Ability to understand the technical, business, and operational impacts of projects or issues

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities

• Training and technical proficiency programs for ongoing staff development

• Mentoring and career development opportunities

• A diversity-supportive work environment