EEOC

Staff Database Engineer

EEOC

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Arizona, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $186,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

MS SQL ServerOracleRDBMSRTOSSDLCSQL

About the role

  • Be a thought leader: a mid-senior point of expertise on Database Engineering design, issues, industry trends, and developing technologies.
  • Partners with leadership to develop strategy.
  • Sets the direction, planning, and execution of database administration priorities in regards to security, risk management, scalability, and reliability.
  • Leads critical incidents from inception through incident resolution as well as throughout the root cause analysis process.
  • Documents and onboards new technology and provides knowledge transfer to others.
  • Supports the company’s commitment to risk management by protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and their data.
  • Forward thinking in upgrade paths, compute and storage capacity expansion, and database hardening and patching.
  • Transforms business requirements into technical specifications that demonstrate effective data design and system architecture to meet SLAs (RTOs and RPOs).
  • Key contributor in implementing proactive monitoring/alerting and automatic corrective actions.
  • Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture including but not limited to: system installation, configuration, and performance management.
  • Collaborates and builds cross functional influence and motivates others; serves as internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
  • Oversees the work of others in a supportive and effective manner.
  • Mentor, coach, and guide other Database Engineers.
  • Works closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and creates a partnership for Early Warning where database services are reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

Requirements

  • Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Proficient in Oracle and MS SQL Server in the areas of clustering, replication, partitioning, encryption, and high availability/disaster recovery configurations from a design, implementation, and support standpoint.
  • Must be willing to be cross-trained and lead in other RDBMS technologies in these areas.
  • A minimum of 12 years of data management, architecture, and systems experience for large-scale implementations
  • Hands on experience designing and deploying secure database systems for high performance, resiliency, availability, and reliability
  • Advanced experience in identifying and leading tuning and performance improvements for database systems within and across the technology stack.
  • RDBMS domain expertise.
  • Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean), and DevOps practices.
  • Seasoned verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present any data management concept to stakeholders in most levels of the business
  • Ability to work outside normal business hours and be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation
  • Background or drug screen.
Benefits
  • Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
  • Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
  • 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work. And SO much more!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Database EngineeringOracleMS SQL Serverclusteringreplicationpartitioningencryptionhigh availabilitydisaster recoveryperformance management
Soft skills
thought leadershipcollaborationmentoringcoachingcommunicationinfluencechange managementproblem-solvingownershipstrategic thinking