Senior Database Administrator

Role & responsibilities

• oversees the definition of the future-state and current-state business requirement, and uses IT to identify and guide projects
• Leverages business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between business needs (as shown by capabilities) with decisions to their technology, solution and data applications
• Reviews business drivers and strategies, understands the implications to the application design, and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions.
• Leads analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the data landscape
• Ensures the effective translation of the security architecture is implemented into the solutions.
• Good knowledge of development and implementation best practices, policies & SPO
• Identify opportunities for Database infrastructure optimization and cost reduction.
• Implements and maintains smooth operation and physical design of databases. Conducts performance tuning of indexes and databases in general.
• Reviews database design and integration of systems, provides backup recovery and makes recommendations regarding enhancements and/or improvements.
• Formulates policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management, and monitors transaction activity and utilization.
• Manage, support and maintain Cloud database environment as well as MS SQL Server databases and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
• Identify and resolve database performance issues, such as slow queries, inefficient indexing, or resource contention.
• Conduct database capacity planning to anticipate future storage and performance needs.
• Implement and maintain database monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Preferred candidate profile

• Proven hands-on DBA, data warehouse and Analytics platform experience
• Setting up and administering all aspects of SQL Server Database
• Proven working experience in Microsoft technologies
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Azure technologies, distribute, heterogenous and complex application and database landscape
• Prior knowledge of large scale data warehouse implementation and migration experience, especially to cloud.
• Experience in designing and developing enterprise grade data platforms and applications.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational and non-relational Databases
• Experience in Data Migration, Disaster Recovery, Integration Services, Performance Tuning, Reporting Services, Database Upgrades patches, Backup and Recovery, Database Security and High Availability Solutions
• Exposure to BPO industry will have an added advantage.
• Very good understanding of Enterprise level data landscape and architecture and ability to understand complex mix of various tools, technologies, solutions and inter-relations between them.
• Very good technical design and documentation skills