Principal - Database Administrator

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Job Description

Job Title – Principal - Database Administrator

The Purpose of This Role

Associate will be part of Data Operations COE group within Fidelity Data Architecture & Engineering Division that primarily provides DBA support for multiple RDBMS like Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Netezza & RDS on AWS. In addition, this team is also responsible for Data Lake Operations on Cloud that supports Nifi (ELT Tool), Collibra Data Governance, Alation Data Catalogue Enterprise Tools & Platform Engineering (Informatica, Middleware), Data masking (TDM) & Enterprise Snowflake Admin Support

The Value You Deliver

Work closely with CTG BU in supporting their databases, ensuring the stability, performance & help migrate them to public cloud as part of the organization data strategy by partnering with Product teams & Architects

Core Duties Include
• Work closely with the product development team from the design phase of application throughout their Agile development journey, the future enhancements & releases
• Be part of their Agile Squad planning, understand the priorities & roadmap
• Participate in the application stress/load test & proactively identify & resolve the DB performance (batch/OLTP) issues that can potentially breach the SLA’s when the code moves to production
• Highlight the new DB features to the product teams that could be used in the application as future enhancements & releases
• Support the Database Migration, Upgrades as part of Technology Life Cycle Management to be compliant with organization standards
• Provide DB Capacity Analysis & provide insights to product teams on future storage & hardware requirements based on the current data growth & overall performance
• Identify aging data, propose/develop/implement data archiving, purging & partitioning solutions to manage the data growth
• Handling Database/Schema Refreshes for the lower database environments
• Understand the RTO/RPO requirements for the application & databases to define the database backup and restore policy
• Managing Database Security Audit violations & resolving them
• DB User/Access/Roles management
• Troubleshooting & fixing production DB/SQL performance issues
• Providing Oncall support (12/7), working with vendor on DB issues, bugs & provide solution
• Schedule and Co-ordinate various maintenance activities with Support teams.
• Replication design and implementation using Golden Gate
• Work on any new DB technology/new-features, POC requirements from application team
• Help the application team in migrating their databases to public cloud (AWS).

The Skills That Are Key To This Role

Technical / Behavioral
• Core Oracle DBA skills (Oracle 12c/19c), RAC & Data guard
• Strong in Oracle Internals & DBA_ Dictionary views
• Oracle DB/SQL Performance Tuning & relevant tools (SQLTRACE, TKPROF, AWR, ADDM, SQL PROFILE, SQL BASELINES)
• Good understanding on Access Methods, Joins, different Indexes & its usage, Index scans, interpreting EXECUTION PLANS, Table/Index Statistics, Histograms, wait events etc
• Working experience on Oracle Golden Gate for Data Replication, PostgresDB & managing RDS on AWS
• Strong on PL/SQL Programming
• Working experience on Shell scripting for Automation
• Problem solving and good analytical skills
• Communication, teamwork and negotiation skills
• Ability to work in tight deadlines under pressure
• Flexible and adaptable to changing business/technology requirements
• A sense of ownership that drives quality in everything you do
• A forward-looking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database & cloud technology space

The Skills those are good to have for this role
• AWS or relevant cloud technology experience on DB migration to public AWS/Azure from on-prem.
• Open Source Database like Maria DB or MySQL etc.
• Knowledge on NO-SQL DB’s like MongoDB or Cassandra
• Working experience on Snowflake Cloud Datawarehouse DB
• Python Programming for Automation or Oracle Apex for building dashboards
• Basic knowledge on Tableau/PowerBI for reporting

How Your Work Impacts The Organization

Helping the product teams to migrate their databases to public cloud & achieving the organization’s data strategy on having 70% applications migrated to cloud by 2024

The Expertise we’re looking for
• 8 to 13 years of Oracle DBA (IT) experience
• 3 + years of experience on Oracle DB/SQL Performance Tuning
• 1 to 2 years of experience in managing other databases like MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgresDB & RDS on AWS