IT DBA Advisor Sr

Job description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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PRIMARY PURPOSE: The Senior DBA Advisor serves as the deep database technology advisor for strategic database work. The role focuses on database engineering, modernization planning, technical design, platform standards, proof-of-concept execution, migration strategy, and transition readiness for new or materially changed database solutions. Operational production support and daily run activities are not the primary focus of this role; however, the role partners closely with operational/vendor database teams to ensure new solutions can be supported effectively after implementation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops, implements and maintains the database system ensuring that the database environment is stable and capable of meeting ongoing business needs including logical and physical database design and implementation; structure testing of database designs, applications, and technology platform; security administration, backup and recovery planning; capacity planning; performance and tuning; research and evaluation of new tools and techniques.
• Develops, revises, and implements policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines to effectively administer the database environment.
• Serves as the senior database subject matter expert for enterprise initiatives involving database platforms, application modernization, cloud enablement, and strategic technology transformation.
• Leads database design and engineering for new applications, major enhancements, migrations, integrations, acquisitions, and enterprise modernization efforts.
• Develops and recommends database platform patterns, technical standards, reference designs, and implementation guidelines that support scalability, resiliency, security, compliance, and maintainability.
• Partners with enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application teams, infrastructure, information security, vendors, and business stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into database solution designs.
• Evaluates database technologies, cloud database services, replication capabilities, data movement approaches, automation tooling, and modernization options; documents findings and recommends adoption strategies.
• Leads proof-of-concept activities and technical evaluations to validate database solutions, migration approaches, performance expectations, resiliency patterns, and supportability requirements.
• Defines database migration and modernization approaches, including platform conversion strategies, schema transition planning, data movement patterns, testing requirements, cutover considerations, and operational readiness needs.
• Provides technical leadership for database-related components of strategic projects, including high availability design, disaster recovery architecture, replication, change data capture, security design, platform integration, and automation.
• Reviews and provides guidance on logical and physical database designs, data models, indexing strategies, schema structures, performance considerations, and integration patterns for enterprise solutions.
• Identifies technical risks, constraints, dependencies, and design tradeoffs and communicates recommendations clearly to project teams, leadership, and governance forums.
• Partners with vendor database teams to plan smooth transition of newly delivered solutions into production support, including documentation, runbooks, monitoring requirements, knowledge transfer, and support handoff.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Supports the organization's quality program(s).

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Licensing

Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred. Computer-related major preferred. Associate degree in computer-related study plus two (2) years computer-related experience strongly preferred.

Experience

• Eight years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required, including engineering, or database architecture experience.
• Three or more years of experience in hands-on database administration on enterprise-scale Progress OpenEdge database.
• Experience with enterprise database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, Progress OpenEdge, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Snowflake, SAP HANA, or similar technologies preferred.
• Experience supporting database modernization, cloud migration, platform transformation, application integration, high availability, disaster recovery, replication, automation, or data movement initiatives preferred.

Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills
• PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
• Analytical and interpretive skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies

WORK ENVIRONMENT

When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.

Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem solving, analysis, and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines

Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required

Auditory/Visual: Hearing, vision and talking

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Management retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.