| Company: | SolutionsIQ |
|---|---|
| Type: | Contract |
| City: | Bothell |
We are looking for a Sr. DBA with Teradata experience for our client who has for the fifth consecutive reporting period, been ranked highest in overall customer satisfaction among wireless telephone users in all six regions. They rank ahead of all other wireless carriers in the Northeast, West and Southwest regions, an area covering 28 of the 48 mainland states. They provide innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect effortlessly to those who matter most. We are looking for someone who can provide advanced technical expertise to a team in support of operational and project activities related to business systems and provide advanced technical and operational support to other departments and teams in support of client’s business objectives.
Responsibilities
* Understand and apply advanced database administration, management and performance tuning techniques
* Provide technical advice and expertise to less senior staff members
* Provide 24x7 on call support as part of a scheduled rotation with other team members
* Provide advanced technical troubleshooting for applications and database systems with emphasis on root cause analysis
* Participate in design and application review sessions, assist with definition of computing standards and recommend policies related to those standards
* Configure and tune hardware and software to insure optimum performance and resource utilization.
* Provide technical advice on industry best practices for Business Intelligence systems, tactical queries, advanced analytics, and data mining.
* Provide creative solutions to challenges that come up, such as capacity, physical design, or workload balancing issues.
* Write and maintain documentation describing changes and modifications to all systems and databases
* Participate in meetings and conference calls related to project and troubleshooting activities
* Perform exports, backups and data extracts as required
* Research solutions to various business and technical problems, evaluate alternatives and be able to present recommendations and justifications to management
* Provide mentoring to fellow database administrators, systems programmers and others
* Act as technical liaison in support for database related project activities
* Develop strong working knowledge of key applications and their interaction with the database(s)
Qualifications
* Three to seven years as a database administrator working with Teradata
* Previous experience in a Teradata or similar MPP environment
* High degree of skill with database commands and Teradata utilities such as Manager, Administrator, SQL Assistant, TSET, Visual Explain, arcmain, TASM, etc.
* Provide technical advice and expertise to less senior staff members
* Previous experience with issues around database, client tool, and hardware upgrades.
* Ability to write, debug and tune sql, macros, procedures, functions, triggers, etc.
* Experience with database monitoring and tuning tools such as Teradata Manager and PMON
* Solid experience with the unix operating system and command set as well as competence with shell scripting
* Solid experience with very large, multi-workload data warehouses.
* Familiarity of the capabilities of the Teradata API.
* Experience in a large, 24x7 environment
* Experience with multi-terabyte, multi-application databases
* Flexible - Core Business hours, plus after hours support
Preferred Skills
* Experience with telephony billing systems and related applications a big plus
* Experience with Teradata system administration (MP-RAS or LINUX) a big plus
* Experience with 3rd-party add-ons such as SAS or Tibco adapters a plus.
APPLY ONLINE:
agilerecruiter.solutionsiq.com/ag...php
/j982708
Responsibilities
* Understand and apply advanced database administration, management and performance tuning techniques
* Provide technical advice and expertise to less senior staff members
* Provide 24x7 on call support as part of a scheduled rotation with other team members
* Provide advanced technical troubleshooting for applications and database systems with emphasis on root cause analysis
* Participate in design and application review sessions, assist with definition of computing standards and recommend policies related to those standards
* Configure and tune hardware and software to insure optimum performance and resource utilization.
* Provide technical advice on industry best practices for Business Intelligence systems, tactical queries, advanced analytics, and data mining.
* Provide creative solutions to challenges that come up, such as capacity, physical design, or workload balancing issues.
* Write and maintain documentation describing changes and modifications to all systems and databases
* Participate in meetings and conference calls related to project and troubleshooting activities
* Perform exports, backups and data extracts as required
* Research solutions to various business and technical problems, evaluate alternatives and be able to present recommendations and justifications to management
* Provide mentoring to fellow database administrators, systems programmers and others
* Act as technical liaison in support for database related project activities
* Develop strong working knowledge of key applications and their interaction with the database(s)
Qualifications
* Three to seven years as a database administrator working with Teradata
* Previous experience in a Teradata or similar MPP environment
* High degree of skill with database commands and Teradata utilities such as Manager, Administrator, SQL Assistant, TSET, Visual Explain, arcmain, TASM, etc.
* Provide technical advice and expertise to less senior staff members
* Previous experience with issues around database, client tool, and hardware upgrades.
* Ability to write, debug and tune sql, macros, procedures, functions, triggers, etc.
* Experience with database monitoring and tuning tools such as Teradata Manager and PMON
* Solid experience with the unix operating system and command set as well as competence with shell scripting
* Solid experience with very large, multi-workload data warehouses.
* Familiarity of the capabilities of the Teradata API.
* Experience in a large, 24x7 environment
* Experience with multi-terabyte, multi-application databases
* Flexible - Core Business hours, plus after hours support
Preferred Skills
* Experience with telephony billing systems and related applications a big plus
* Experience with Teradata system administration (MP-RAS or LINUX) a big plus
* Experience with 3rd-party add-ons such as SAS or Tibco adapters a plus.
APPLY ONLINE:
agilerecruiter.solutionsiq.com/ag...php
/j982708
