Database Administrator – EU Institutions

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

📋 Description

• Architectural Design & Adaptation: Develop or modify the existing architecture to meet the specific needs of the DataHub platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and secure.

• Data Modelling & Normalisation: Perform comprehensive data analysis, create Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), and implement Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) to ensure optimal data structure with minimal redundancy.

• Technical Support for Integration Teams: Provide assistance to the technical teams utilizing the DataHub platform by offering guidance, troubleshooting, and best-practice suggestions during system integration processes.

• Issue Resolution: Detect, analyze, and resolve technical issues that arise during the solution’s operation, ensuring minimal service disruption.

• Component & Building-Block Development: Design and create reusable architectural components and building blocks that can be utilized across various projects and modules.

• Collaboration & Communication: Actively engage in technical working groups, progress meetings, and user-focused sessions to communicate architectural decisions, gather feedback, and align expectations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong understanding of Git and CI/CD pipelines as applied to relational databases (e.g., Liquibase)

• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (preferably Oracle 19c or newer)

• Proficient in database design

• Familiar with stored procedures and deployment packages (PL/SQL)

• Skilled in writing complex SQL queries to manage data across multiple databases and tables

• Capable of conducting database troubleshooting, including data validations to ensure information integrity, accuracy, and accessibility

• Good knowledge of UNIX/LINUX and Bash/KornShell scripts

• Familiar with software lifecycle development tools such as Jira

• Basic understanding of database administration

• Basic knowledge of application servers (Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, etc.)

• Basic understanding of Agile methodology

• Knowledge of modern data engineering techniques (parquet, deltaparquet, Databricks, Synapse or Fabric) is a plus, as these are planned for future use within the system.

• Familiarity with the HR domain will be an advantage

🏝️ Benefits

• Strong understanding of Git and CI/CD pipelines as applied to relational databases (e.g., Liquibase)

• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (preferably Oracle 19c or newer)

• Proficient in database design

• Familiar with stored procedures and deployment packages (PL/SQL)

• Skilled in writing complex SQL queries to manage data across multiple databases and tables

• Capable of conducting database troubleshooting, including data validations to ensure information integrity, accuracy, and accessibility

• Good knowledge of UNIX/LINUX and Bash/KornShell scripts

• Familiar with software lifecycle development tools such as Jira

• Basic understanding of database administration

• Basic knowledge of application servers (Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat, etc.)

• Basic understanding of Agile methodology

• Knowledge of modern data engineering techniques (parquet, deltaparquet, Databricks, Synapse or Fabric) is a plus, as these are planned for future use within the system.

• Familiarity with the HR domain will be an advantage