Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid)

Broadridge Financial Solutions - Coppell, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Coppell, TX

10,001+ employees

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Broadridge is responsible for the design, build, run, and modernization of database systems. This role ensures that databases are secure, highly available, and recoverable, while participating in a hybrid work environment that promotes collaboration and learning among high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine database administration tasks, including installation, configuration, migration, patches, and upgrades of database systems.
• Identify and resolve database performance issues, including tuning SQL queries, optimizing indexing, and implementing necessary database changes.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring and proactive management of database systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Support database backup and recovery activities, ensuring appropriate backup strategies and disaster recovery plans are in place.
• Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams to provide database support for applications and projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents and problems, both independently and in collaboration with other technical teams.
• Provide operational support, including capacity planning, system performance analysis, and resource utilization monitoring.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to database administration procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting steps.
• Participate in an on-call rotation schedule to ensure 24/7 availability and response to critical incidents.
• Provide support for database-related incidents, working closely with the Incident management and escalation teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years as an Oracle Database Administrator with skills in database design, configurations and builds, logical and physical data modeling, stored procedures, monitoring, upgrade, patching, security, backup/recovery, and data integrity.
• Experience with Oracle internals, Clustering, Data Guard, HA, Partitioning, and In-Memory.
• Experience in other RDBMS or NoSQL database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MarkLogic, MongoDB, Datastax, Couchbase, etc.
• Experience with advanced Linux OS commands and automation tools, and demonstrated UNIX scripting/python skills.
• Strong proficiency in Oracle Server Database management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledgeable of AWS/Cloud Technologies and work within private/public cloud environments.
• Experience in automating database tasks for continuous service improvement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• 401k plan
• Bonus eligibility
• Flexible work environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Paid time off