Database Administrator Senior

Develops programs to create and maintain University or division-wide databases.

• Develops, documents and promotes standards to ensure the reliability and accessibility of University databases.
• Gathers and documents requirements for new or modified databases and user access programs.
• Plans, creates, troubleshoots, and manages software solutions for facilitating database migration, integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting, and interfacing.
• Installs, tests and debugs database application software.
• Maintains databases through software upgrades, patches, data migration, back up and recovery, and writes programs to automate these processes.
• Provides technical expertise to project teams and production support programmers.
• Researches and recommends new software or technology to maintain database systems
• Ensures that database applications comply with University requirements and professional standards.
• Discovers data-related requirements through discussions with process owners and thorough analysis of departmental applications, programming, and operational processes.
• Assesses and develops both current and prospective systems to establish structured and efficient database access.

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited institution, or a Bachelor’s degree in a non-related field an accredited institution combined with relevant experience.

• Five years’ relevant experience.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing programming or database standards.
• Project planning experience.

• Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours, including evenings and weekends.

Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2023-10-03