Senior Database Administrator

Senior SQL Database Administrator
Hybrid:
Greater Cincinnati area
Full Time
Salary range: $105K-$140K

The Planet Group has partnered with a Cincinnati area company to locate a Senior SQL Server Production Database Administrator to provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise across an enterprise database and reporting environment.

This individual will serve as a senior subject matter expert for Microsoft SQL Server, helping define database architecture, operational standards, security, performance, disaster recovery, and reporting solutions.

The ideal candidate combines deep, hands-on SQL Server administration experience with the ability to operate at an architectural level—setting technical direction, solving complex database challenges, advising development teams, and establishing standards for a large-scale production environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical architect and subject matter expert for enterprise database and reporting technologies, with a primary focus on Microsoft SQL Server.
• Define database architecture, standards, best practices, and long-term strategies supporting enterprise technology initiatives.
• Design, implement, administer, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments running on Windows.
• Lead database performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, patching, backup/recovery, and operational support.
• Design and maintain database high-availability and disaster recovery strategies, procedures, and solutions.
• Establish and maintain database security standards, policies, and operational controls.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and third-level support for complex database and reporting issues.
• Partner with application developers, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and other technology teams to design scalable and reliable database solutions.
• Review SQL scripts and database changes as part of the application release and change-management process.
• Design and support enterprise reporting solutions using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Develop data models, dimensional structures, and related database components supporting enterprise reporting and data warehouse requirements.
• Monitor and support ETL processes for core business systems and the enterprise data warehouse.
• Develop Power Shell scripts and automation to improve database administration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging database and reporting technologies and lead technical initiatives involving external vendors and consultants.
• Assist with the modernization and migration of legacy database solutions to established enterprise standards.
• Create and maintain database architecture, operational procedures, technical standards, and supporting documentation.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum activities and support enterprise change-management practices.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to developers and other technology professionals.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional information technology experience.
• 7+ years of recent, hands-on Microsoft SQL Server database administration experience in Windows Server environments.
• Expert-level SQL Server administration and architecture experience within enterprise production environments.
• Advanced experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and database security.
• Experience designing and supporting database disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
• Hands-on Power Shell scripting and automation experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex database and production issues.
• Experience establishing technical standards and providing architectural guidance to development and technology teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle database technologies.
• Experience with MySQL database technologies.
• Experience supporting enterprise data warehouse and ETL environments.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments.

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