MAX - Database Administrator - 2468108

*Remote Contract Opportunity*

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our financial client to fill their Database Administrator role! This is a 12+ month contract role and can be remote in the United States. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services during the contract period.

What You'll Be Doing:

•Complete and oversee basic to complex database analysis, design and development efforts.

•Develop plans for database implementation, data source integration and data archiving and recovery.

•Manage, direct, oversee and/or review execution of small to large size/risk project plans on assigned applications and ensure complete understanding of tasks and dependencies and mitigation of issues.

•Contribute to advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state-of-the-art technical or industry knowledge.

•Maintain a strong functional understanding of supported applications. Maintain a current understanding of the business environment supported to provide expert guidance for technical, business and operational impacts associated with a project or production problem.

•Recommend RDBMS designs based on business requirements, technology roadmap, RDBMS functionality, knowledge of interfacing technology and clear understanding of customer expectations.

•Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among RDBMS, interfacing applications and operating systems.

•Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of database technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives.

•Prepare thorough and clear technical specifications, and update systems, standards and RDBMS process documentation.

•Prepare and review assessments to include required tasks, estimated time frames and effort for small to large size/risk scope project.

•Build positive client relationships by addressing client needs in a manner that safeguards their business and customers, with minimal complexity, risks and costs.

•Build rapport within the organization and across other technical teams.

•Assist with coordination of annual disaster recovery exercises and remediate issues.

•Assist others on project execution and production support for all applications and project sizes.

•Work with internal and external application and technology stakeholders to review status of initiatives, compliance/regulatory changes, planned or potential vendor changes and contractual and/or system maintenance changes.

•Ensure identification and resolution of issues and concerns related to discretionary enhancement requests, application reliability changes and/or production problem resolution.

•Identify new technology that increases technical support efficiency and effectiveness.

•Provide functional feedback to internal application owners and technology stakeholders on current or proposed RDBMS to extent it supports predefined business needs.

•Identify performance and effectiveness enhancement opportunities and recommend new policies and procedures that support improvement.

•Participate in ADBS Center of Excellence teams goals and deliverables.

What You'll Need to Have:

•Associates degree and 6 years RDBMS experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 6 years RDBMS experience.

•Basic understanding of ETL concepts.

•Experienced in performance debugging and should possess better than average troubleshooting skills

•Expected to have good general overall IT knowledge on adjacent technologies - networking, storage etc.. as they specifically relate to databases.

•Experience with PowerShell, Ansible, Python or similar languages preferred.

Pay Range: $43-$63/hr +

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