Database Engineer, Senior Job Description
Database engineer, senior
provides thought leadership on database architectural design of existing and new systems, database administration, performance monitoring tuning, troubleshooting problems and expansion.
Database Engineer, Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Firmwide Database Strategy & Technology Roadmaps
DBaaS Patterns on Physical & Virtualized Infrastructure
Build Standards, Automation & Build support
Database ecosystem integration(eg Tools, Monitoring, Security etc)
Database Security Engg & Standards
A strong focus of this role will be in developing/enhancing Oracle DB automated builds & ecosystem integration using Unix Shell scripts, Perl, Python, SQL,PLSQL
Familiarity with Source Code Control system, Modular programming, Software release management highly desired
Good written and verbal communication is an important part of the role as you will be expected to provide regular updates to senior management, LoB stakeholders and the broader database community
Develop and Implement Unified Control Center and Monitoring tools to measure, monitor and report on Platform, Data availability, Utilization, Capacity trend, overall health metrics
Design/Architect and implement database solutions that work well within the existing enterprise
Database Engineer, Senior Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Database Engineer, Senior
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, SQL, MS, PKI, DBA, HA, X.509, DB, RDBMS, ITIL
Education for Database Engineer, Senior
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the database engineer, senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business
Skills for Database Engineer, Senior
Desired skills for database engineer, senior include:
Agile methodologies
DoDAF
IP networking
ITIL
SDLC
DoD and intelligence communities
Embedded systems
Existing best practices in database administration
Firmware
GEOINT
Desired experience for database engineer, senior includes:
Represent the database team in project meetings and participate as a major contributor in complex development projects
Analyze and develop applications using SQL Server 2012/2014 utilizing Visual Studio and TFS
Design, develop, document and implement new functionality, enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software
Work as part of a development team and establish close working relationships with stake holders, quality assurance, architects, management.
Laptop provided
Ability to lead a small team (globally distributed) of 4-6 individuals and help drive sound engineering design, process and quality practices, and perform acceptance engineering
Database Engineer, Senior Examples
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Database Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a database engineer, senior. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for database engineer, senior
- Author tools that reliably manage infrastructure
- Ability to work independently on diverse problems
- Ability to make and meet objectives
- Manage NoSQL & RDBMS databases backing a PaaS platform
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide database architecture and design solutions
- Automate Data platform deployments and Operations in cloud scale
- Identify and configure data platform monitoring and alerting system
- Implement database security & encryption best practices as required by the business and standards like PCI, HIPAA
- Provide guidance and assistance for database migrations and other data platform changes
- Lead multiple projects from Data platform perspective
Qualifications for database engineer, senior
- 6+ years of experience in architecture, design, analysis, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable database services and components
- 5+ years experience in application database frameworks including Spring, Spring MVC,, Hibernate and .NET
- 5+ years experience with transactional and NOSQL platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL, PostGres, Mongo and Cassandra
- At least 2-3 years of experience as Technical Lead or Architect
- Understanding of Object Oriented Programming / Analysis and Design concepts, Design Patterns, and Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience optimizing performance of database server and queries
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of database engineer, senior. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for database engineer, senior
- Participate in new technology evaluation, design and development of highly scalable distributed databases
- Work effectively in a team-oriented environment, both independently and collaboratively
- Position requires 24x7on-call support rotation with other team members
- Own Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) - Provide technical leadership and ownership (design, build, enhance, ETL, document and engage with DevOps for support) of EDW
- Collaborate with DBA team on upgrade projects with impact analysis, fixes and end-to-end testing
- Provide technical leadership and technical mentoring of offshore resources
- Leading a small team of Data Solutions Architects, Analysts and Software Developers
- Responsible for managing the development of compelling and innovative graph database solutions aligned to business requirements
- Developing and delivering a database technology roadmap, including continual improvement and adoption of new database technologies
- Providing coaching/mentoring to team members on all aspects
Qualifications for database engineer, senior
- Solid knowledge in database replication technologies including Always-on, GoldenGate, and strong architectural/engineering skills to design systems that meet various applications High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements
- Good engineering skills in developing enterprise solutions to support MSSQL in areas like backup, monitoring/alerting, security compliance, patching
- Excellent Knowledge & Understanding of Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL
- Good Knowledge & Understanding of data modelling
- Flair for learning new tools & technology
- Excellent Understanding of Windows operating system
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Database Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a database engineer, senior. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for database engineer, senior
- Design and develop cutting edge e-commerce applications using cloud infrastructure(AWS), Microsoft technology stacks with a focus on SQL development and optimization
- Arrives at, tests, and documents database standards and best practices
- Partners with application and production DBAs and customers to solve problems
- Create technical documentation and diagrams as needed for project deliverables
- Conducts production database performance monitoring and capacity planning
- Daily interaction with clients on divisional and enterprise wide projects and peer resources in other technical support organizations
- Design, architect, and implement relational and NoSQL database systems, using cloud-based database technologies to support Egencia’s industry leading corporate travel platform
- Consult with application teams on data modeling and schema design, database coding, and database performance tuning
- Develop best practices for administering and monitoring high availability OLTP database systems
- You will take a lead role in communicating and collaborating with Egencia’s teams to drive initiatives
Qualifications for database engineer, senior
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of Windows Batch or PowerShell scripting
- Will require to be on call work during outside normal business hours
- Basic understanding of Oracle Database is a plus
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- MUST have strong understanding of database infrastructure (Oracle RAC, Linux, SAN and Network) and database concepts(SQL, PLSQL)
- Candidate must successfully pass a government background investigation
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Database Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our growing company is looking for a database engineer, senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for database engineer, senior
- Development of long and short term requirements for database administration and design
- Developing database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system
- Analysis and evaluation of system improvements, optimization, development and/or maintenance efforts
- Communicating well and working closely with Development team for various projects
- Work in an agile, collaborative environment to implement solutions for short term long term projects
- Work with Architects to standardize application frameworks, and other critical product related initiatives
- Translate a set of requirements and data into a usable database schema by creating or recreating adhoc queries, scripts and macros, updates existing queries, and creates new ones to manipulate data
- Working in standard working hours with rotational oncall (senior Candidates) or 24/7 shift rotation (intermediate Candidates) - depending on the skills, seniority of the chosen Candidate
- Optimize data integration platforms to provide optimal performance under increasing data volumes and complexity
- Provide expert knowledge of ETL methodologies allowing the broader teams to harness this knowledge for improved delivery
Qualifications for database engineer, senior
- Minimum 7 years of experience as Oracle DBA
- Minimum of 10 years experience in systems administration on Linux and Windows for telecommunications and networking environment
- Understanding of non-relational data design issues
- Strong experience with SQL, PL/SQL performance tuning
- Experience implementing ETL process, Oracle golden gate replication, MV Replication, Database Security using security compliance auditing, and bulk loading of data from flat files using SQL* LoaderDevelop and maintain installation, configuration and operational procedures
- Expert skills in mapping databases
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Database Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of database engineer, senior. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for database engineer, senior
- On occasions, participate in the bidding process by providing estimates of the hours required to complete the modelling activity
- Liaise as necessary with present and prospective customers
- Attend Design Reviews to support the project coordinator as appropriate
- Provide technical assistance and guidance to more junior members of the department, and other departments as required
- To adhere to all Company and contractual standards, processes and procedures applicable to visual database modelling
- Design database schema based on data modeling of business requirements and entities
- Work with Architects and lead developers to come up with optimal database design
- Write exceptional code that is easy to read and maintain
- Architect and design new tables while maintaining existing ones
- Develop and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures
Qualifications for database engineer, senior
- Significant solutions development experience across Database and Big Data technologies
- Identify compatibility issues found on original SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012 databases that would prevent them from being upgraded
- Fix or remediate source objects to make them compatible with SQL 2014
- Produce a set of scripts designed to remediate production SQL 2014 databases
- Provide assistance to administrators to resolve script deployment issues in production environment
- Work with application owners to provide fixes for application issues that are classified as simple remediation items that contain no functional changes or expected fixes needed to existing defects