Database Administrator, Lead

Job Description:

About ETS:

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE and Praxis tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

Position Summary:

The Lead Oracle Applications Database Administrator provides project and team leadership as well as day-to-day support of the production, QA, test and development mid-range database environments. The incumbent leads project teams including operations, application developers and vendors to improve technical infrastructure, security, reliability and cost. This role also performs database space management, performance monitoring, database and system tuning, backup and recovery, database software installation, upgrades and infrastructure management.

Experience and Skills:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical expertise to design business solutions related to DBMS "Internals", DBMS tools and utilities usage, database backup and recovery, database performance, and overall database performance monitoring and tuning
• AWS cloud experience required
• Oracle 19c experience required
• Good communication skills required
• Working knowledge of Oracle Data Guard and standby databases required
• Working knowledge of Oracle Golden Gate and database replication required
• Working knowledge of Postgres
• Oracle database and query performance tuning skills required
• Ensure that data access and database designs are as efficient as possible by coordinating transaction access path analysis sessions with application developers and analyzing specifications and code
• Fully utilize CASE tools to develop, or modify, physical database designs from logical designs
• Perform database structure migrations
• Trouble-shoot database and/or software problems as they apply to design, implementation, or installation activities.
• Act as the bridge between database and system level integration issues and set clear direction for others to follow.
• Assure quality of database analysis and design across projects, thus enabling company-wide data reusability
• Schedule and coordinate infrastructure and database maintenance activities including such items as system patching, database upgrades and database restructures
• Coordinate and/or participate in database stress tests, analyze results, and make recommendations for design or coding changes based upon those results.
• Participate in on-call and overnight production support and problem resolution activities
• Develops and maintains DBMS related standards and procedures to facilitate the identification and implementation of,quality improvement initiatives
• Research, evaluate, and test new software and DBMS related tools and facilities as they pertain to the existing DBMS environment, database designs, procedures, and applications
• Assume responsibility for the security of company information through secure databases and monitoring environment to identify improper access and ensure compliance with all ETS security and audit standards
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the AWS hardware, operating system, network and database arenas and provide consultation and knowledge transfer as needed
• Monitors current DBMS performance and capacity and develops procedures to improve the DBMS environment
• Lead and mentor teams of other Infrastructure or application DBA staff to solve technical database and system challenges
• Collaborate with other application DBA staff, senior infrastructure DBA staff, developers, and other technical staff to ensure that best practices are followed for relational database design, database configurations, and installation options
• Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function

PROCESS OUTPUTS

• High performance and secure application databases
• Project plans, technical reports and standards documentation that are on time, accurate and on-budget
• Highly available and scalable database server infrastructure
• Database and system tuning, backup and recovery
• Compliance with ETS security and audit standards
• Consultation to peers and internal contacts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the hardware, operating system, network and database arenas

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

• The Lead Database Administrator directs and mentors teams of DBA staff with minimal supervision. This role functions autonomously on a regular basis, seeking direction from senior management in atypical situations.

ETS is mission driven and action oriented

• We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
• We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth
• As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you

ETS is an employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and accessibility in education. We are dedicated to building teams that capitalize on the various backgrounds and experiences of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.

ETS is mission driven and action oriented

• We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
• We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth
• As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you

ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

From: ETS GCC