Database Administrator 2

Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of ( 2) Database Administrator 2.

Level Description

4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

Task Include:

• Entering codes to create production databases.
• Selecting and entering codes of utility programs to monitor database performance, including distribution of records and available memory.
• Directing programmers and analysts to make changes to the database management system.
• Reviewing and correcting programs.
• Answering user questions.
• Conferring with coworkers to determine the impact of database changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes.
• Modifying database programs for performance tuning.
• Specializing in one or more types of database management systems.
• Providing assistance in planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems.
• Ensuring conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with structural parameters within the database environment.
• Evaluating users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporating them into the existing shared data environment, and providing technical assistance.
• Coordinating the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy.
• Loading databases and reorganizing as needed.
• Performing data modeling and prototyping.
• Conducting logical and physical data modeling, designing relational database models, and creating physical data models from logical data models.
• Performing security recovery procedures.
• Determining and implementing database search strategies and storage requirements.
• Maintaining a data dictionary, ensuring uniformity of definitions, and setting standards for its use.
• Monitoring database performance and recommending efficiency improvements.
• Creating a test database environment for applications, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
• Executing procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
• Assisting with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.
• Assisting with the installation of database software and analyzing, designing, and implementing databases.
• Assisting in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and establishing and controlling necessary database security.
• Assisting in the selection of database management software.
• Ensuring user interfaces for database administration and data handling are compliant with accessibility standards.
• Providing support to users in obtaining data/information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

Requirements:

• 5yrs Required - Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
• 5yrs Required - Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
• 5yrs Required - Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
• 5yrs Required - Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
• 5yrs Required - Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
• 5yrs Required - Well-developed oral and written communications skills
• 5yrs Required - Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• 5yrs Required - Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
• 5yrs Required - Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
• 5yrs Required - Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
• 5yrs Required - Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
• 5yrs Required - GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
• 5yrs Required - Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
• 5yrs Required - Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5yrs Required - 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 pe
• 5yrs Required - Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
• 5yrs Required - Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
• 5yrs Required - roven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
• 5yrs Preferred - Oracle Database experience
• 5yrs Preferred - SSRS report creation
• 1yrs Preferred - M204 database experience

Work Hours and Location: (Required)

• Services shall be provided during normal business hours unless otherwise coordinated through the Agency. Normal business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., excluding Texas state holidays when the agency is closed.
• The primary work location will be at 701 W 51st Street, Austin, TX 78751.
• The worker will work remotely.
• Candidates must be within the State of Texas. Out of State candidates will not be considered.

Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.