Senior SQL Database Administrator

Position: Senior SQL Database Administrator

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Carson City, Reno, Nevada (80% onsite, 20% offsite)

local candidates required

Position Overview:

The Nevada Secretary of State's Office is seeking a highly experienced Senior Database Architect to support Project Orion, our statewide initiative to modernize and reimagine Nevada's business licensing systems, including the replacement of the SilverFlume platform. This pivotal role will lead data architecture strategy and oversee the migration of critical business data from legacy systems to modern, scalable platforms.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in large-scale data migrations, relational database design, and performance tuning, with a track record of working on complex government or enterprise IT projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the maintenance, and optimization of legacy SQL Server environments to allow a smooth data transition and transformation between our legacy application into our vendor's solution.
• Develop and maintain the overall data architecture to support modern application workflows, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.
• Create and manage ETL processes and tools for data transformation and transfer.
• Collaborate with development teams, business analysts, and external vendors to align data strategies with business and technical requirements.
• Establish and enforce data governance, quality, and security protocols.
• Conduct data mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation to ensure a smooth transition to the new system.
• Lead efforts to optimize database performance and ensure high availability and disaster recovery.
• Document data flows, models, and architecture diagrams for both legacy and modernized systems.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance database architectures to support enterprise applications.
• Act as the subject matter expert on data integration, warehousing, and migration from legacy systems to modern platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, system admins, and business units, to ensure data availability and reliability.
• Develop and enforce database best practices, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery protocols.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex performance issues at the query, index, and infrastructure level.
• Support modernization efforts and future-proofing initiatives, including cloud readiness assessments and data governance planning.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in database architecture and administration, with a focus on data migration projects.
• Proven success leading end-to-end data migrations involving multiple systems and large volumes of structured data.
• Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, and modern database platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, cloud-based DBaaS solutions).
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools (e.g., SSIS, Informatica, Talend) and scripting languages (e.g., T-SQL, PL/SQL, Python).
• Strong understanding of data modeling (OLTP/OLAP), normalization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with state or federal government data environments is highly desirable.
• Experience working in agile and hybrid project environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience migrating financial or licensing systems (e.g., Great Plains, CRM platforms).
• Knowledge of Nevada's regulatory, licensing, or business registration processes.
• Experience working with DevOps teams and cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure, AWS RDS)

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.