Lead Database Administrator

Sr. Lead DBA

Primary Responsibilities :

Leadership & Data Governance

• Lead project work related to Teradata Database and data governance
• Coordinate with teams and customers to meet business, security, and reporting needs.
• Participate in agile development environments and large-scale DDI projects. System Administration & Maintenance
• Manage and maintain OnPrem Teradata systems and working with Teradata (as needed) including patches, upgrades, configurations, resolving / fixing vulnerabilities, and hardware replacements.
• Monitor system health using Viewpoint and other tools; perform preventive and corrective actions.
• Support disaster recovery (DR) planning, testing, and quarterly maintenance.
• Coordinate with Teradata and subcontractors for system hardening and vulnerability remediation.

Database Operations & Optimization

Functional Description :

The Sr DBA Lead is a lead role on our team responsible for the overall database delivery of the Enterprise Data Warehouse for the Medicaid agency including application and system tasks. It is a critical role involving expertise in working with Medicaid data itself, data governance, security, supporting and maintaining hardware and software, configuring Teradata, setting up new environments, and ensuring we are achieving the optimal performance. For example, the DBA is expected to provide a wide range of expertise including the ability to help a user to fetch data (requiring business knowledge) and the technical ability to lead a major Teradata upgrade and complete complex Teradata software system configurations.

Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition. May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting, and

helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Required Qualifications :

5TB).

Preferred Qualifications :