MAX - Database Administrator - 2509250

*Hybrid or Remote Contract Opportunity*

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Database Engineer position! This is a 12 month contract opportunity and can be hybrid in Buffalo, New York or remote within the United States. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

Position Overview:

The job holder works under supervision of a Technology Manager and is responsible for maintaining a strong degree of technical RDMS knowledge and contributing to solution design, departmental strategies and resource allocations of the department. Responsibilities of the position may include problem resolution, systems development and day-to-day activities. This position assumes responsibility for contributing to the growth and development of less experienced personnel. The position delivers small group training/brown bag to increase team proficiency and technical development and provides backup to more experienced personnel as required. The job holder may be called upon to serve as a technical representative on committees, ad-hoc projects, etc. The position interacts, on a regular basis with Technology staff and application teams and leadership, as well as vendors.

What You'll Be Doing:

•Provide technical leadership.

•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.

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.

•Proficiency with RDBMS tools and functions.

•Prior experience working on multiple small to large projects of low to high complexity.

•Experience working with large system and RDBMS enhancements, conversions and production problem resolution.

•Experience working with others to connect disparate ideas into cohesive solutions.

•Good presentation skills.

Pay Range: $43-$63/hr+

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