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Job Description
Job Title:
Database Administrator (DBA)
Location:
Austin, TX (Hybrid)
Duration:
Long Term Contract Job Description:
The client is seeking an experienced Database Administrator with 4-7 years of experience to design, build, and maintain enterprise database systems. This role is responsible for the full lifecycle of database management - including installation, modeling, security, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and documentation - while collaborating with programmers, analysts, and end users to ensure data integrity and system reliability. The ideal candidate brings strong knowledge of relational database design, multiple database management platforms, and data dictionary standards, and can work independently with sound judgment and minimal supervision. Due to the nature of the infrastructure involved, candidates must pass a pre-employment security review, and familiarity with national security compliance and EIR accessibility standards is required.
Required Skills:
Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions Well-developed oral and written communications skills Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools. Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies. Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools. Experience 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. Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools. Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills. Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities. Oracle Database experience SSRS report creation M204 database experience