Database Administrator

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Job title: Database Administrator

Reports to: Manager, Database Administration

Grade: 18

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter.

We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.

At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive.

As a Database Administrator, you will ensure the reliability, performance, and security of Priority’s mission-critical database environments—including SQL Server and MySQL platforms running both on-premises and in AWS (RDS and Aurora). You will support database development, deployment, troubleshooting, optimization, and ongoing health monitoring, while implementing emerging technologies and best practices.

This role plays a key part in maintaining high-availability, secure, and high-performing databases by owning daily monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and strategic improvements across multiple environments. The position requires strong analytical skills, deep knowledge of SQL & MySQL engines, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, and offers the opportunity to drive system stability and influence platform evolution. You’ll collaborate with Cloud Engineering, Application Development, and PMO teams and contribute to mission-critical programs that support operational uptime and revenue-impacting systems.

• Responsible for database environment stability, reliability and performance improvement with regular maintenance and monitoring and observability.
• Review service-related reports (database backups, maintenance, health checks, monitoring) to ensure issues are identified and resolved within SLAs.
• Respond to database alerts and escalations, partnering with database engineering to create and implement long-term solutions.
• Evaluate database performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with database engineering to define and enforce database security standards.
• Analyze and interpret database logs for troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Participate in planning and execution of critical projects that enhance database infrastructure and system resiliency.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and provide support across L1, L2, and L3 tiers as needed.
• Deploy database objects (tables, indexes, stored procedures, views, packages) across multiple platforms and environments.
• Owns the end-to-end process for database health monitoring and incident response.
• Partners with Cloud Engineering/ Product Development to drive scalable deployments and performance optimization.
• Leads database performance tuning initiatives to meet availability and latency expectations.
• Ensures compliance with security and operational policies, identifying risks and improvement opportunities.
• Analyzes performance metrics and query patterns to inform tuning decisions and architecture enhancements.

• Core responsibilities are executed with accuracy, efficiency, and ownership.
• Stakeholders rely on this role for timely guidance, reliable execution, and clarity on database-related decisions.
• The team benefits from stronger uptime, reduced incident volume, and improved transparency in database operations.
• You are viewed as a trusted partner who balances real-time responsiveness with long-term planning and operational integrity.
• Success…