Senior Information Technology Systems/Database Administrator Analyst

Los Rios Community College District - Sacramento, CA

- Senior

Sacramento, CA

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The Senior Information Technology Systems/Database Administrator Analyst is a senior systems and database administrator who performs the most complex activities within the scope of the Information Technology organization and has the deepest technical knowledge in the assigned areas. Incumbent typically specializes in several overlapping technical areas and/or has broad overlapping architectural responsibilities and may manage multiple projects while also administering several of the most critical production system components. The Senior Information Technology Systems/Database Administrator Analyst operates with minimal oversight. The department maintains a focus on Oracle and MSSQL database systems, PeopleSoft middle tier architecture, troubleshooting, scripting, and automation, and SSL certificates.

Responsibilities

• Administers and has oversight for all or most District-wide servers, databases and application software for the most critical business functions and the largest user communities.
• Performs district-wide capacity planning for all or most District-wide servers, databases and critical application software.
• Consults with IT Management to ensure adequate capacity, performance, and security for all or most District-wide servers, databases and critical application software.
• Recommends and implements Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to define agreement between IT and business units or customers for the most critical business application software areas.
• Maintains knowledge of components outside of direct responsibilities and works with other IT units (application, database and infrastructure) to design and maintain overall security of systems and data.
• Designs and implements Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans for the most critical, District-wide business functions, consistent with IT Management and IT User community requirements.
• Manages analysis, application, and migration of patches and upgrades to the ERM (enterprise resource management system - PeopleSoft), both in test and production.
• Performs project management for major server, database and application software upgrades of the most critical business systems.
• Monitors all ongoing projects of technical staff in the unit, to ensure consistency with technical direction.
• Provides technical leadership to Analyst I & II in same specialties.
• Recommends and justifies relevant IT procedures & policies.
• Acts as a focal point for requests, problems, and issues affecting the unit.
• Leads the planning, design, and implementation of system architectures for broad, overlapping areas of technology.
• Analyzes and justifies changes and improvements in systems architecture (server, database and software) to Information Technology Management for the most critical systems and largest, Districtwide applications.
• Leads long-range planning and budgeting for the most critical Information Technology systems (server, database and application software) and other related areas.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, management information systems, engineering or closely related field.
• Six years' experience directly related to job duties; OR, a Bachelor's degree and two years in class of Information Technology Analyst II; OR, a Bachelor's degree and eight years' experience directly related to job duties.
• Have an equity-minded focus, responsiveness, and sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.