Role: Senior Teradata DBA

Location: Springfield, IL

Length: 12 months

Client: Healthcare/Medicaid

Functional Description:

The DBA is responsible for the overall database delivery of the Enterprise Data Warehouse for a large Medicaid agency. It is a critical role involving expertise in working with Medicaid data itself, security, supporting and maintaining hardware and software, 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 support a major Teradata upgrade. This role requires some onsite presence in Springfield, Illinois to support onsite maintenance by Teradata (and its subcontractors). The selected candidate will partner closely with a Teradata DBA peer. This position will be part of our Data Engineering function and data warehousing and analytics practice.

Data Engineering Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles.

Responsibilities may include Platform-as-a-Service and Azure Cloud solution including Snowflake application database tasks with a focus on data stores and associated resources. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments.

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 complex 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor, and maintain OnPrem Teradata hardware/software including patches, replacements, and upgrades with support from Teradata.
• Plan and execute tasks required to ensure the Teradata system is operational including occasional evening and weekend support for Teradata maintenance.
• Provide direction to developers on Operational and Design, Development, and Implementation projects to ensure best use of the Teradata system including review/approval of database components (such as tables, views, SQL code, stored procedures).
• Performing database backup and recovery operations – using the BAR DSA and NetBackup.
• Developing of pro-active processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning.
• Providing day-to-day support for the EDW users problems like job hands, slowdowns, inconsistent rows, re-validating headers for tables with RI constraints, PPIs, and configuration.
• Maintaining rules set in the Teradata Active System Management (TASM) and supporting workload management.
• Maintaining the Teradata Workload Manager with the proper partitions and workloads based on Service Levels.
• Supporting the database system and application server support for the Disaster Recovery (DR) build/test, annual drill, and quarterly maintenance as needed.
• Actively monitoring the health of the Teradata system and Teradata Managed Servers (TMS) using Viewpoint and other tools and application servers and make preventive or corrective actions as needed.
• Maintaining access rights, role rights, priority scheduling, and reporting using dynamic workload manager, Database Query Log (DBQL), usage collections and reporting of ResUsage, AmpUsage, and security administration etc.
• Coordinating with the team and customers in supporting database needs and make necessary changes to meet the business, contractual, security, performance, and reporting needs.
• Supporting internal or external audit process and address vulnerabilities or risk proactively.
• Prepare and support IRS and internal audit including coordinating with Teradata to perform.
• Teradata system hardening and delivery of Safeguard Computer Security Evaluation Matrix (SCSEM) Reports as needed, addressing issues in the hardening and vulnerability scan report.
• Generating and maintaining capacity management, Space, and CPU reports on analyzing the Spool, CPU, I/O, Usage, and Storage resources and proactive monitoring to meet performance and growth requirements.
• Reviewing and resolving Teradata alerts and communicate any risk / issues or impact to the management, team, and business users through appropriate communication strategy.
• Effectively reporting status, future roadmap, proactive process improvements, automation, mitigation strategies, and compensating controls to the management and clients.
• Leading database or data related meetings and projects/activities delivering quality deliverables with minimal supervision/direction.
• Sharing knowledge, coaching/mentoring other members in the team for backups.
• Performing additional duties that are normally associated with this position, as assigned.
• Responsible for front-end tool (OpenText Bi-Query) and model maintenance and administration.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience of at least 7+ years as primary/lead on-premises Teradata DBA including:
• 7+ years of experience as a Teradata DBA on Version 15+ and
• 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL using SQL Assistant/Teradata Studio and
• 3+ years of experience with Teradata IntelliFlex and
• 3+ years of experience extracting, loading, and transforming structured/unstructured data using Teradata Utilities (FastLoad, Multiload, FastExport, BTEQ, TPT) in a Unix/Linux environment and
• 3+ years of experience performance tuning in a large database (>5TB) or data warehouse environment, using advanced SQL, DBQL and Explain plans or
• 3+ years of experience analyzing project requirements and developing detailed database specifications, tasks, dependencies, and estimates or
• 3+ years of experience identifying and initiating resolutions to customer facing problems and concerns associated with a query or database related business need.
• Data warehouse or equivalent system experience
• Excellent verbal/written communication, end client facing, team collaboration, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Located in Springfield, IL area is preferred.
• 5+ years logical and physical data modeling experience using ERWIN or other data modeling tool.
• 2+ Years of Snowflake Application Database Administration
• 3+ Years of experience as ETL/Informatica Development
• 3+ Years working with end users/customers to understand requirements for technical solutions to meet business needs.
• 3+ years working with technical developers to strategize solutions to align with business requirements.
• Experience working with project teams in metadata management, data/IT governance, business continuity plan, data security.
• Experience in Application Server Hardware/Software Administration (Windows/Linux)
• Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications.
• Experience working in matrix organization as an effective team player.
• Experience working in agile environment such as Scrum framework and iterative/incremental delivery/release. Experience in tools like DevOps, GitHub will be a plus.
• Experience working in large Design Development and Implementation (DDI) projects.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Teradata: 7 years (Required)
• SQL Assistant: 5 years (Required)
• Teradata IntelliFlex: 3 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Springfield, IL 62702 (Required)

Work Location: In person