Database Administrator

22nd Century Technologies is a Government Software integrator working with DoD and civilian space, and is a fast-growing company in the DoD sector with clients like US Air Force, US Navy, and Army.

22nd Century Technologies is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.

Position Title:
Database Administrator 2 (Nearby Detroit, MI)

Duration: 7 Months

Work Location:
Cadillac Place Detroit, MI

The Database Administrator 2 will be responsible for data analysis and database management. This includes maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for data analysis and database management.
• Involved in maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of the utilities and production tools used for data storage management to support the Application Team.
• Coordinates physical changes to computer databases; codes, tests, and implements physical database, applying knowledge of data base management system.
• Designs logical and physical databases and reviews description of changes to database design to understand how changes to be made affect physical data base.
• Establishes physical database parameters and uses structured query language (SQL) to define database objects using database definition language (DDL) and control access to database objects using data control language (DCL).
• Calculates optimum values for database parameters and specifies user access level for each segment of one or more data items.
• Tests and corrects errors, and refines changes to database.
• Enters SQL to create production data base and uses database utility programs and 3rd party utilities to monitor database performance.
• Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system and reviews and corrects programs.
• Answers user questions and confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.
• Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning.
• Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance.
• Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed.
• Performs data modeling and prototyping, performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
• Performs security recovery procedures and determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements.
• Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary.
• Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements.
• Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
• Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.

Requirements:

• 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design.
• Knowledge of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies.