Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The University of Miami is a premier research institution and academic health system seeking a full-time Database Administrator. The role involves maintaining database performance, integrity, and security while providing technical leadership and support to various teams within the IT department.
Responsibilities
- Manages the data dictionary of the enterprise
- Sets standards and controls the necessary infrastructure process associated with the database(s)
- Provides troubleshooting and technical system support for the database programming group
- Provides senior technical leadership to database design teams, database programming groups, and IT
- Remains cognizant of the future direction of systems and on how that direction will impact the enterprise
- Serves as a source of documentation and standards to help direct the activities of IT as a whole
- Works closely with other IT groups to coordinate current and future plans and activities
- Provides reports on system problems and solutions and forecasts future utilization and equipment requirements
- Recognizes and identifies potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion
- Makes presentations for local and national user groups
- Publishes articles describing both the enterprise’s activities and assessments of technology
- Collaborates with hardware and software vendors in the assessment of advanced transaction processing and database productions, including beta and field test participation
- Performs at or above the enterprise’s information technology performance standards
- Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures
- Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures
- Responsible for design, installation, management, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of database systems
- Develop and assist project managers and directors with the creation of task-level project plans that detail the specific tasks required to deliver a solution
- Develop, test, and implement system changes and upgrades
- Develop, test, and implement database system backup, restore and DR processes
- Document technical designs with charts, diagrams, schemas, and descriptive software component documentation
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- Minimum 5 years of database administration experience in Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySql
- Knowledge of business and management principles
- Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations
- Ability to establish department goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan
- Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others
- Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others
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