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Hiring Agency:
Health & Human Services - Agency 25
Location:
Lincoln, NE
Hiring Rate:
$34.490
Job Posting:
JR2024-00007548 IT Data/Database Analyst Senior (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
07-10-2024
Job Description:
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is seeking an IT Data/Database Analyst/Senior in the Children and Family Services Division (CFS). This is a new role that will be instrumental in Children and Family Services beginning to utilize modern data analytics and visualization tools. The IT Data/Database Analyst/Senior will help CFS build from the ground up without a lot of established work.
Examples of Work:
Database Software Support:
•Install and maintain database software and associated utility products
•Troubleshoot database software and associated utility products
•Configure database software and associated utility products

Manage Physical Database:
•Allocate and manage physical space for agency database tables
•Allocate and manage physical space for individual agency application tables
•Ensure database tables are backed up
•Performs database/application "binds"
Data Dictionary:
•Create/maintain data field definitions
Logical Database Design:
•Create/maintain data models in conjunction with applications development staff
•Ensure compliance with data dictionary
Security:
•Performs database security duties
•Create/maintain database access authorization
General:
•General knowledge of pertinent database platform
Leadership:
•Mentor IT Data/Database Analysts
•May lead during logical database design sessions
Hiring rate of this position increases July 1st to: $34.490
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00 Am - 5:00 PM
Dress Attire: Business Casual
Requirements / Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Associate Degree in Computer Science/IT and three years related experience, two of which must be as Data/Database Analyst.
Preferred Qualifications:
Education or experience working with creating and managing databases, extracting data from various sources, including writing SQL, utilizing Microsoft Power BI or other data analytics tools, creating visualizations of data (including modern compelling and interactive visualizations), and providing analysis of data.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of: database back and recovery systems; operating systems and platforms used in organization; commonly used query languages, such as SQL; database management concepts, principles and methods including database logical & physical design, normalization, storage capacity management and backup and recovery; sources, characteristics and uses of the organization's data assets; characteristics of data storage media; data administration and data standardization policies, standards and methods; IT database security principles/methods; technical documentation procedures; assigned agency's IT infrastructure; interrelationships among multiple IT specialties; computer hardware and software, including applications and programming; basic math; principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, coordination and execution; data mining and data warehousing principles/methods; project management principles and methods.
Skill in: writing computer programs for various purposes; using math to solve problems; reading comprehension; analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design (operations analysis); technology design (generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs); testing - conducting tests to determine whether equipment, software or procedures are operating as needed; communicating, both orally and in writing; problem identification; information gathering - knowing how to find information and identifying essential information; information organization; implementation; information planning - developing approaches for implementing an idea; synthesis/reorganization of information to better approach problems or tasks; observing and evaluating the outcomes of a problem solution to identify lessons learned or redirect efforts; systems evaluation; systems perception - determining when important changes have occurred in a system or are likely to occur; troubleshooting; time management; technical documentation/developing user instructions; modifying systems and database configurations to correct problems that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data; monitoring the performance of others; applying data mining, storage and warehousing methods; researching alternative technical solutions.
Ability to: read and understand information and ideas presented verbally and in writing; communicate information and ideas, both orally and in writing, so others will understand; reason deductively - apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers; deciding if an answer makes sense; correctly follow a given rule or set of rules in order to arrange things or actions in a certain order; reason inductively - combine separate pieces of information or specific answers to problems to form general rules or conclusions; come up with a logical explanation for why a series of seemingly unrelated events occur together; design, develop and maintain database operations; create reports and manipulate data in response to customer requirements; monitor database performance and tune database operations; generate complex queries and reports; define and allocate storage capacity in the design of data management systems; develop data dictionary definitions, data models, metadata repositories and other data management tools; apply new and improved approaches to the design, development and implementation of data mining, warehousing and related storage and retrieval systems; execute a variety of database utility functions; assist customers in navigating and accessing databases using various interface methods; implement operating systems procedures for running timed or scheduled events such as file backups; produce database design schema for integrating source data into data management systems; use modeling tools and approaches to meet the unique requirements of the assignment; return disrupted database systems to normal operations; optimize database performance & tune database operations; adapt new and improved approaches to the design, development and implementation of data mining, warehousing and related storage and retrieval systems.
Benefits
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