Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fifth Third Bank is a banking organization seeking a Senior Database Administrator to design, implement, and support database technology solutions using modern engineering tools and Agile practices. The role focuses on database performance, backup and recovery, security, data ingestion, automation, operational support, compliance, and coaching less experienced team members.
Responsibilities
- Database design, normalization, and performance tuning (indexes, query optimization, execution plans)
- Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning (HA/DR, replication, failover clustering)
- Security management (user roles, encryption, auditing, compliance)
- Implement and maintain new features and capabilities while continuously improving the quality of our technical products and services
- Build and share technical expertise with your Agile team and other members of the organization
- Follow industry and organizational best practices and standards, and participate in company communities of practice to continuously refine and communicate them. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and creating maintainable, supportable, and testable solutions
- Keep up with technology trends and innovations in your field(s) of practice
- Provide operational support and troubleshooting for your team’s products and services
- Maintain appropriate controls and documentation to ensure compliance with all company and regulatory requirements
- Provide coaching and training for new or less experienced team members
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technology field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Four+ years' experience in advanced administration of relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL)
- Database design, normalization, and performance tuning experience
- Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning experience
- Security management (user roles, encryption, auditing, compliance)
- Experience managing large-scale, high-availability production environment
- Strong hands-on experience importing and processing structured and semi-structured data files, including:
- CSV, TSV, Excel (XLS/XLSX)
- JSON, XML,BAI,835, 837
- Flat files and log files
- Proficiency with tools such as:
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Azure Data Factory, or equivalent
- Bulk load utilities (e.g., BULK INSERT, COPY, bcp)
- Ability to design robust, reusable data ingestion frameworks
- Data validation, cleansing, deduplication, and transformation techniques
- Experience writing scripts to parse and transform files
- Automate database imports and exports
- Handle errors and logging in ingestion workflows
- CI/CD for database deployments (GitHub)
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Willingness to work in a highly-collaborative environment
- Solid understanding and practical experience with modern software development practices, tools, and/or hardware technologies
- Understanding of common IT security best practices
- Position not eligible for immigration sponsorship
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.
- Virtual work arrangement
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