Senior Database Operations Manager (Remote)

Job Summary:

The Senior Database Manager will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's databases. The Manager will work closely with other IT professionals to ensure that the databases are secure, reliable, and efficient. The Senior Database Manager will also be responsible for managing a team of database administrators and ensuring that they are meeting their goals and objectives. The Manager will constantly assess and implement new technologies and provide Information Technology with a long-term perspective on the relationship of database technology to the business opportunities facing Experity. It is extremely important to Experity that the production database systems offer the highest reliability and performance possible. The DBA is challenged to work with application development and IT operations to help achieve a state-of-the-art environment that meets current and future business objectives and Experity's suite of applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain the organization's databases
• Ensure that the databases are secure, reliable, and efficient
• Manage a team of database administrators and ensure that they are meeting their goals and objectives
• Develop and implement database policies and procedures
• Monitor database performance and make recommendations for improvements
• Work closely with other IT professionals to ensure that the databases are integrated with other systems
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans for the databases
• Ensure that the databases are compliant with all relevant regulations and standards
• Provide technical support to end-users as needed
• Deploy, maintain, and manage all company database servers
• Configure and deploy measures to guarantee the security of the company's data, and monitor events for anomalies
• Contribute to the logical and infrastructure design of the databases and servers for optimal performance and capacity
• Design high availability and disaster recovery strategies and periodically conduct testing for the same
• Collaborate with developers on the design and maintenance of database queries
• Design and maintain database structures for scalability according to best practices and standards
• Maintains and enforces policies and procedures designed to ensure the integrity of the enterprise database environments
• Keeps informed on new and emerging database and application development technologies
• Oversees day-to-day activities of team members and third-party contractors; addresses concerns and escalates to the SVP of IT as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience managing a team of database administrators
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, up to the latest version
• At least 7 years of experience in database management
• Knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery options for SQL Server and other database management systems.
• Strong knowledge of database design and implementation
• Experience with database security and compliance
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with multiple database management systems
• Experience in implementing operational automation for repetitive tasks

Preferred:

• MCA, MCTS, MCITP, or MVP certification

Team Lead Competencies:

• Provides daily direction to team members, ensuring the team is meeting commitments, and providing frequent and timely feedback
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members, including overseeing new employee onboarding
• Provide constructive feedback to team members to improve overall team performance
• Assist with maintaining employee work schedules including training, vacations and paid time off, telecommuting, and overtime scheduling
• Identifies problems, creates and implements effective solutions; escalates to the SVP of IT as needed
• Creates and implements new practices, processes, and practices
• Consciously creates a workplace culture that is consistent with the organization's core values

Every team member exhibits our core values:

• Team First
• Lift Others Up
• Share Openly
• Set and Crush Goals
• Delight the Client

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)