Database Administrator IV

Job Title: Database Administrator IV

Location: Buffalo, NY

Employment: Contract (6 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $75.00/hour

Schedule: 40 hours/week

• Provides expert solutioning with Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
• Serve as Architect on new complex projects.
• Provides short and long-term strategic direction for internal application owners in alignment with department goals and their clients.

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

• Assists in managing client relations and expectations by serving as trusted advisor in setting customer expectations on application capabilities or application enhancements for assigned application(s) Bank-wide.
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for RDBMS-related enterprise-wide initiatives, complex discretionary projects, compliance/regulatory requirements and system changes due to contractual agreements or system maintenance, and as knowledge resource and mentor for less experienced staff.
• Works with internal application owners in defining optimum functional approaches to achieve efficient and effective RDBMS solutions to their application needs and improve the Bank's Technology Portfolio and Database Development.
• Maintains a current understanding of assigned applications, enhancements, business process flows and impacting regulatory/compliance matters to ensure future requirements are met through value-added consultation with the business.
• Represents the Bank at vendor executive Advisory Boards, user conferences and industry events.
• Owns business continuity and auditing processes.
• Consult with internal application owners in analysis of short and long-range business requirements and recommend RDBMS changes that anticipate future business requirements.
• Build positive client relationships by addressing client needs in a manner that safeguards their business and customers, with minimal complexity, risks and costs.
• Build rapport within the organization, vendors and professional organizations to enhance the reputation of the team and Technology.
• Responsible for vendor/product analysis and recommendations.
• Translate business requirements to assist staff in preparing detailed functional specifications for database enhancements.
• Recommend RDBMS designs related to discretionary enhancement requests, business-as-usual process/efficiency efforts or production problem solutions based on business requirements and technology requirements.
• Identify issues and concerns from a design perspective to ensure they are considered and addressed up-front.
• Maintain a strong current understanding of the business environment supported to provide expert guidance for technical, business and operational impacts associated with a project or production problem.
• Provide guidance and training to less experienced personnel to contribute to their development.
• Manage, oversee or review execution of complex project plans to ensure understanding of tasks and dependencies and mitigation of issues.
• Focus on project execution and production support related to supporting applications.
• Work with internal and external application Technology stakeholders to review status of initiatives, compliance/regulatory changes, planned or potential vendor changes and contractual or system maintenance changes.
• Serve as SME to Application Database Services team in RDBMS functionality and testing efforts of RDBMS changes, inclusive of reviewing business requirements, functional specifications and preparing and executing testing to support employee development.
• Assist in coordinating completion of integrated testing efforts to ensure any issues or problems are identified in the test environment.
• Recommend RDBMS designs based on business requirements to support internal and external customer needs.
• Ensure identification and resolution of issues and concerns related to discretionary enhancement requests, application reliability changes or production problem resolution to proactively minimize any negative impact to owners of assigned applications and their users, customers and clients.
• Recommend new RDBMS technology and related policies or processes to enhance applications and ensure technical support provided clients is efficient and effective to meet internal and external customer needs.
• Provide functional feedback to internal application owners and technology stakeholders on current or proposed vendor software,…