Lead Database Administrator

Job Overview

The Lead Database Administrator is part of a team working closely with both security and application development groups and reports to the Head of IT Infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader with a proven track record as a subject matter expert in managing complex, mission critical database environments.

Objectives

• Leadership & Team Management
• Work with the Head of IT Infrastructure to ensure appropriate staffing levels are met.
• Prioritize and coordinate database team staff for engineering and operations activities.
• Sharing knowledge with team members helps improve the team's overall skills and performance.
• Drive a collaborative culture that values technical depth, accountability, and customer service.
• Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture
• Collaborate on the design and building of the complete production IT infrastructure required to run a highly secure and highly available set of applications across multiple data centers.
• Collaborate on the design and building of the corporate IT infrastructure.
• Collaborate with peers to generate realistic technical roadmaps across the whole organization.
• Operations, Monitoring & Reliability
• Identify tools needed for the NOC team to ensure proper monitoring and operation.
• Implement and maintain controls and monitoring procedures to ensure availability of critical systems, and minimal service interruptions.
• Governance, Compliance & Quality
• Adhere to quality standards and procedures to ensure the best specifications are always met and maintained.
• Collaborate with the compliance team to provide required resources, appropriate documentation, and secure access during audits.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
• Stay on the forefront of emerging technologies to recommend new technology and ideas that improve the platform and efficiency.
• Be able to adapt to new technologies, applications, and perform critical required duties as necessary.
• Financial & Vendor Strategy
• Determine when services should be outsourced to lower costs and/or free up internal team members to tackle tasks that give National Digital Trust Company (In Organization) a competitive advantage without losing required security or functionality.
• Availability & Travel Requirements
• Occasional travel to other customers, and vendor offices.
• Ability to share in on call rotation and work with remote locations around the world during their hours, as needed.

What you bring to NDTC

• Experience & Business Expertise
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in technology positions with an emphasis on infrastructure services.
• Knowledge of business concepts, and an understanding of the links between major business processes, products, systems, and networks.
• Track record of working collaboratively and productively with business partners.
• Technical Expertise (Database Administration)
• Installing and upgrading the server and application tools
• Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements for database system
• Creating primary database storage structures driven from application requirements
• Creating primary objects (tables, views, indexes, etc.) based on application requirements
• Modifying database structures
• Enrolling users and maintaining database security
• Ensuring licensing compliance
• Controlling and monitoring user access to databases
• Maintaining database performance
• Planning backup and recovery of data
• Backing up and restoring the database environment
• Contacting technical support when needed
• Continuous integration/delivery
• Management and Professional Skills
• Demonstrated administrative, financial, project management, and vendor management skills.
• Ability to set and communicate priorities and manage multiple tasks
• Team-oriented mindset supporting enterprise-wide goals
• Strong service orientation
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Leadership & Personal Effectiveness
• Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods, removing barriers, acting with a sense of urgency, and leading by example
• Analytical and focused on continuous improvement.
• Set and communicate priorities effectively; able to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Exceptional service orientation.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Preferred / Desired Technical Skills
• Postgres database administration
• IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code)
• Automated software-based infrastructure management

Featured benefits

• Employer-provided: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, 401(k), life and disability insurance.