Sr. Database Administrator

Full-time - Mid Level

MA

About the position

The Sr. Database Administrator at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will work with developers and domain experts to establish a technical vision and evaluate trade-offs between usability and performance. This role involves utilizing advanced troubleshooting techniques to deliver unique and tailored solutions to meet our customers' specific needs. The administrator will act as a key point of contact between the business functions and IT, working with users across all organizational levels to analyze and convert business requirements into database specifications. The position requires critically assessing information from various sources, resolving conflicts, and differentiating between user requests and actual needs. The administrator will translate high-level information into detailed requirements and summarize detailed information effectively. Communication and collaboration with users to analyze their information needs and functional requirements is essential. The role also includes acting as a liaison between business, technology, and support teams to ensure clear and efficient communication, participating in the Service Desk function to address and resolve user-related support calls, developing and implementing test plans, and providing communication and training to end users for new functionalities. Additionally, the administrator will create new reports and dashboards to capture metrics for operational and business users and work directly with Amazon Web Services architects to replicate and resolve customer issues.

Responsibilities

• Work with developers and domain experts to establish a technical vision.
• Evaluate trade-offs between usability and performance.
• Utilize advanced troubleshooting techniques to deliver tailored solutions.
• Act as a key point of contact between business functions and IT.
• Analyze and convert business requirements into database specifications.
• Critically assess information from various sources and resolve conflicts.
• Translate high-level information into detailed requirements.
• Communicate and collaborate with users to analyze their information needs.
• Act as a liaison between business, technology, and support teams.
• Participate in the Service Desk function to address user-related support calls.
• Develop and implement test plans.
• Provide communication and training to end users for new functionalities.
• Create new reports and dashboards to capture metrics.
• Work directly with AWS architects to replicate and resolve customer issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• 6 years of experience as a Database Administrator, Technical Analyst or a related occupation.
• Knowledge or experience with Project management and Agile Methodology.
• Experience with AlwaysOn, Windows Clustering, RAC, DG, and database clusters.
• Managing various DBMS technologies such as Golden Gate, DataGuard.
• Operational support for databases using Unix, Linux Solaris and HPUX, Windows.
• Experience with Veritas Clusters, RAC, and databases version 8i, 9i, 10g, 12c, 19c.
• Knowledge of SQL Server, AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, MySQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, Postgres, Hadoop.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL, Python, Unix, Linux, and Hana.
• Experience with Cloud Applications such as Jenkins, Ansible, Cloud Formation, DataDog, RDS Databases, Aurora, DBaaS, and SaaS.
• Knowledge of Database security.

Benefits

• COVID-19 Vaccination Update for U.S. & Canada Colleagues
• Equal Opportunity Employer