Database Administrator
Austin, TX
6+ Months
Job Description
Our Direct Client is seeking an experienced, full-time, on-site, dedicated Candidate, with skills and expertise as described in below requirement.
Responsibilities:
Supports the installation of database software and migrations to new data management system software levels, and tests the migrations to ensure data reliability and functionality.
Analyzes, designs, modifies, and maintains database structures.
Designs and implements procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures.
Skill Required/Desired
Required 5 years - Strong knowledge of database management systems, as well as data warehouse management and decision support tools
Required 5 years - Extensive experience in the development, implementation and maintenance of data warehouses and data marts is desired
Required 5 years - Experience in business objects and in building the data dictionary
Required 5 years - Ability to use data base access tools for application delivery
Required 5 years - Strong familiarity with analysis, planning and management reporting functions
Required 5 years - Well-developed oral and written communications skills
Required 5 years - Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
Required 5 years - Extremely high level of analytical ability where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult
Required 5 years - Understanding of benchmarking processes and techniques
Required 5 years - Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
Required 5 years - Data Warehousing data population and data modeling techniques for target structures such as Star Schemas, Snowflake Schemas, and highly normalized data models
Required 5 years - GUI based ETL tools such as Informatica, IBM WebSphere DataStage, or similar tools.
Required 5 years - Implementation experience with enterprise class databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. or similar technologies.
Required 5 years - Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
Required 5 years - Experience with data warehouse implementation process, from business requirements through logical modeling, physical database design, data sourcing and data transformation, data loading.
Required 5 years - Structured Query Language (SQL), end-user tools, database and SQL performance tuning.
Required 5 years - Implementation experience with analytical and reporting tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy or similar tools.
Required 5 years - Excellent analytical; problem-solving; team playing; and oral and written communication skills.
Required 5 years - Proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities.
Preferred 5 years - Oracle Database experience
Preferred 5 years - SSRS report creation