Senior Database Administrator

This is a Hybrid role requiring 2 days a week in a Wolters Kluwer office

In this newly created role as the Senior Oracle/MySQL Database Administrator you will perform as a lead member of the Infrastructure Database Support Team. You will collaborate with the Enterprise Architects, Database Engineers, Development DBAs, and IT Operations Teams on complex database projects and performance tuning efforts. Ideally your background is with writing and tuning SQL queries and procedures, as well as collecting metrics to analyze query performance and creating reports to share with development teams.

Some of the things you will working on and be responsible for:

• Provide technical recommendations and serve as the primary database resource expert to the department for

• existing and future applications

• Understand and promote best practices and standards for database development/deployment/maintenance; oversee governance to assure

• product stability and performance

• Identify database requirements by interviewing customers; analyze, design, and code database utilities for existing

• and future systems

• Ensures high-level integration of application development with industry standards

• Identifies, evaluates, conducts, schedules, and leads technical analysis functions to ensure all applicable database analysis requirements are met.

• Provide technical consultation to the development teams on more complex database projects to ensure proper data modeling and design paradigms are applied in the creation and maintenance of all application databases.

• Participate in on-call rotation providing 24x7 support of all critical internal and customer facing applications.

The experience we look forward to you having:

• Extensive experience maintaining and developing production mission critical databases, preferably Oracle & MySQL

• DevOps experience in a CI/CD environment

• Familiarity with data manipulation languages and the principles of database design

• Ability to tune queries and offer suggestions for performance improvement

• Aggregation of data from multiple sources and present reports for development teams to focus tuning efforts

• Experience with monitoring tools like OEM, SolarWinds DPA, Data Dog preferred

• Hands-on experience with Oracle 19c or higher, MySQL 8.x on PaaS, Proxy SQL as a MySQL HADR solution

• Administering very large and high volume transactional databases in a 24/7 environment

Setting up and administering database environments; including development, testing, disaster recovery and production

• A bachelor's degree preferred

• Minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience as a Microsoft SQL Database Administrator or Database Developer

A little bit about us

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Wolters Kluwer U. S. Corporation and all its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Wolters Kluwer U. S. Corporation and all of its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.