Database Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

• Effectively plans, schedules, and assigns work to all Database team members; consistently monitors the overall function of the team. Ensures proper training of staff.
• Develops database design & shows how it fits with our database structure; develops data flows & usage (internal & external systems).
• Maintains knowledge of data architecture components, recognizes when modifications must be made and suggests new data architecture standards.
• Solves data architecture problems through identification, assessment and resolution, and changes and upgrades.
• Provides strategic leadership into the development and implementation of the enterprise's data governance strategy.
• Responsible for the overall database structure, including recovery, security, backup, and capability specifications.
• Responsible for all activities related to data architecture/integration on all IT project initiatives.
• Defines data/information architecture standards, policies and procedures for the organization, structure, attributes and classification of data elements, and applies accepted data content standards to technology projects.
• Collaborates with the Data Governance Board to coordinate detailed data architecture design plans.
• Proposes and implements database solutions; creates and proposes solutions to management and stakeholders; designs a new database and presents it to related parties.
• Actively provides and promotes the importance of documentation, accurate records of work performed, project tracking, and management reporting. Reviews documentation provided by team members for accuracy and quality.
• Demonstrates experience in creating and maintaining strong teamwork ethic relationships, working with other IT team members to implement necessary changes, upgrades and enhancements to the systems.
• Assists the Director of Infrastructure Engineering in the development of philosophies, strategies and policies to support the IT mission.
• Mandatory 24/7 on-call support for responsible systems, which includes trouble-shooting root cause of issues, determining action plan and making judgment calls on required resources needed for resolution, and escalating issues to executive management.

Minimum Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or other related technical field and/or minimum equivalent experience of ten or more years working in an IT environment, with 2+ years as Data Architect.
• One year of leadership experience in IT environment a plus.
• Hands-on experience in developing and implementing data architecture and complex data models for operational and data warehouse applications.
• Understanding of big data architecture, data lake and ETL technologies.
• Experience in developing conceptual, logical, and preliminary physical models for an enterprise (i.e., Enterprise Data Architecture) and solutions (i.e., Solution Data Architecture).
• Excellent organizational, verbal and writing skills and the ability to perform well under pressure.

Desired Qualifications

• Experienced managing technical resources including Data Architects, Data Quality Specialists and Database Administrators.

Oneida Innovations Group is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.