Senior Lead Teradata Database Administrator, Remote

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The DBA is responsible for the overall database delivery of the Enterprise Data Warehouse for the Medicaid agency. It is a critical role involving expertise in working with Medicaid data itself, security, supporting and maintaining hardware and software, and ensuring we are achieving optimal performance. For example, the DBA is expected to provide a wide range of expertise including the ability to help a user to fetch data (requiring business knowledge) and the technical ability to support a major Teradata upgrade.

This role requires regular onsite presence in Springfield, Illinois to perform backup/restore and support onsite maintenance by Teradata (and its subcontractors).

This position will be part of our Data Engineering function and data warehousing and analytics practice.

Data Engineering Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles. Responsibilities may include Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud solution with a focus on data stores and associated ecosystems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments.

Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manage relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition. May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting, and helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data.

Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

• Manage, monitor, and maintain OnPrem Teradata hardware/software including patches, replacements, and upgrades with support from Teradata
• Support data governance, metadata management, and system administration
• Plan and execute tasks required to ensure the Teradata system is operational including occasional evening and weekend support for Teradata maintenance
• Provide direction to developers on Operational, Design, Development, and Implementation projects to ensure best use of the Teradata system including review/approval of database components (such as tables, views, SQL code, stored procedures)
• Performing database backup and recovery operations - using the BAR DSA and Net Backup
• Developing proactive processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning
• Providing day-to-day support for the EDW users problems like job hands, slowdowns, inconsistent rows, re-validating headers for tables with RI constraints, PPIs, and configuration
• Maintaining rules set in the Teradata Active System Management (TASM) and supporting workload management
• Maintaining the Teradata Workload Manager with the proper partitions and workloads based on Service Levels
• Supporting the database system and application server support for the Disaster Recovery (DR) build/test, annual drill, and quarterly maintenance as needed
• Actively monitoring the health of the Teradata system and Teradata Managed Servers (TMS) using Viewpoint and other tools and application servers and make preventive or corrective actions as needed
• Maintaining access rights, role rights, priority scheduling, and reporting using dynamic workload manager, Database Query Log (DBQL), usage collections and reporting of Res Usage, Amp Usage, and security administration etc.
• Coordinating with the team and customers in supporting database needs and making necessary changes to meet the business, contractual, security, performance, and reporting needs
• Supporting internal or external audit process and address vulnerabilities or risk proactively
• Prepare and support IRS and internal audit
• Coordinating with Teradata to perform Teradata system hardening and delivery of Safeguard Computer Security
• Evaluation Matrix (SCSEM) Reports as needed, addressing issues in the hardening and vulnerability scan report
• Generating and maintaining capacity management, Space, and CPU…