Role Database Administrator
REMOTE: Candidates must be within the State of Texas. Out of State candidates will not be considered.
Location Austin TX
Duration 12 Months
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
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
Experience With 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
Experience With Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
Experience With Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
Experience With Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
Experience With GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
Experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
Experience With 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
Experience With Oracle Database experience