Sr. Staff Database Administrator (Database Architect)

Meet the team:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Staff Database Administrator (DBA) to lead the management optimization and support of our enterprise-wide database environment. The successful candidate will have hands-on expertise with multiple RDBMS and NoSQL platforms including Oracle SQL Server MariaDB MySQL PostgreSQL and MongoDB as well as extensive experience supporting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) databases and Application. This role is critical to ensure database reliability scalability performance and data security across all business-critical systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design configure administer and support multiple database platforms: Oracle (including EBS R12)
• Expert on Oracle EBS database performance tuning operation monitoring compiling packages executing and authoring scripts.
• Expert on managing Oracle EBS application tier such as troubleshooting long running concurrent manager jobs configure Oracle EBS printer on Apps and OS side troubleshooting workflow mailer restarting oacore due to stuck thread.
• Expert knowledge to manage and support Oracle EBS database components including database refresh/cloning patch application workflow management and concurrent processing.
• Expert knowledge on troubleshooting functional Issues on EBS applications - assisting users with functional problems and providing solutions.
• Ensure database performance availability and scalability through proactive monitoring and tuning.
• Automate tasks and create scripts for database health monitoring and issue resolution.
• Implement robust backup and disaster recovery solutions using tools like RMAN DataGuard DataDog Rubrik Solarwinds SQL Server Maintenance Plans etc.
• Support and maintain high availability replication and failover configurations across platforms.
• Collaborate with Development and DevOps teams for database design deployment and performance optimization.
• Enforce data governance security user management and compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Document procedures configurations and change logs thoroughly and accurately.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical systems and participate in on-call rotations.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 13 years of progressive experience in database administration across:
  • Oracle Database (including RAC ASM Data Guard)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) database administration
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL scripting skills.
• Deep understanding of database architecture indexing partitioning and query optimization.
• Familiarity with data security standards (encryption auditing access controls)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 13 years of progressive experience in database administration across:
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MariaDB / MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB (including sharding replica sets performance tuning)

• DBA certifications (e.g. Oracle OCP MongoDB DBA Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator).
• Experience with database monitoring and diagnostic tools (OEM pgAdmin SQL Profiler MongoDB Compass etc.).
• Experience with cloud database deployments (AWS RDS Azure SQL GCP etc.).
• Experience with containerized database environments (Docker Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Ansible Terraform).
• Experience in supporting other enterprise apps like Oracle BI Hyperion or SAP is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead complex database projects.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills under tight deadlines.

Experience:

• Typically requires a minimum of 13 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6 years and a Masters degree.

Travel:

• 0-25%