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Job Title: Database Architect
Location: Okemos or Farmington Hills, MI
Position type: Contract
Job Summary:
Leads, designs, and delivers recommendations of all database technologies and best practices for using those technologies that maximizes the performance, availability and maintainability of the database technologies utilized within the organization.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
1. Evaluates, recommends, and documents database solutions that provide performance, high availability, and flexibility for the organization.
2. Creates and maintains best practice and use case documentation for all databases used by the organization.
3. Maintains relationships with vendors that provide database related software and services to the organization.
4. Provides technical assistance and support to both internal and external users of the corporation’s databases.
5. Evaluates emerging technology trends, competitive products, and business need to set direction and roadmap for future growth or buy-vs-build inflection points.
6. Mentors DBA team and technical team leads in achieving business objectives.
Minimum Qualifications:
Position requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field and seven years of experience as a Database Administrator with three or more of the following database management systems in a lead technical role: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Snowflake or MongoDB. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience.
Database Architect with 7+ years of DBA experience.
- Must have at least 13+ years of experience
- Expertise in 3+ DBs: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB
- Strong in database design, performance tuning & optimization
- Experience with high availability, backup & recovery solutions
- Hands-on with cloud database technologies
- Knowledge of ETL/ELT processes and data workflows
- Experience in automation for database maintenance
Position requires experience developing automated processes in support of routine database maintenance activities in a Microsoft Windows Server or Unix operating system environment; proficiency with backup and recovery software products and concepts; experience with high availability solutions for database systems experience with Cloud database technologies; familiarity with ETL/ELT technologies; ability to work autonomously and with multiple teams when necessary to triage database system performance issues.
Ability to provide guidance to other teams on best practices and efficiency improvements; strong written, verbal, organization, and communication skills; and the ability to think outside the box
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