Oracle Database Architect

Job Overview

The Database Administrator contractor will be a part of the Administrative Applications Production Data Services team, responsible for providing on-call and operational support for critical application databases that feature complex data models, workflows, and reports

Duties and Tasks

· 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. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.

· Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning.

· 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 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.

· 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.

· Assists in the selection of database management software.

· Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work.

· Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design

· Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies. Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data (via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards.

Experience and Qualifications

6 years: Experience in Oracle database design, analysis, and performance tuning

6 years: Experience in Oracle database structures, data analysis, performance tuning

6 years: Experience designing enterprise applications and/or services

6 years: Experience creating technical and functional design documentation

6 years: Experience within software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology – (Scrum, for example)

6 years: Experience with multi-tier system/application development – (SOA, Microservices, 3-Tier applications, for example)

4 years: Experience with data warehouse applications and/or database reporting

features

1 year: Jira experience

1 year: Oracle Certification

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 40 per week

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Oracle database design and analysis: 6 years (Required)
• Oracle database structures and performance tuning: 6 years (Required)
• creating technical and functional design documentation: 6 years (Required)
• software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology: 6 years (Required)
• data warehouse applications: 4 years (Preferred)
• Jira: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Oracle Certification (Preferred)

Location:

• Austin, TX 78751 (Required)

Security clearance:

• Confidential (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Austin, TX 78751 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Austin, TX 78751: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Austin, TX 78751

Salary : $55 - $60