Database Architect

Overview

GLOTECH, Inc., founded in 1995, is a privately and minority-owned company serving military, federal and commercial clients. We are a successful Information Technology firm with a large staff currently providing superior information technology and advanced engineering services around the world. Our success is built on attracting and retaining quality staff through a highly competitive benefits package with a special focus on continuing career development and corporate financial support.

We also maintain a collegial working environment and offer our staff opportunities to improve and enhance their skills.

GLOTECH is committed to a comprehensive employee benefits program that helps our employees stay healthy, feel secure and maintain a work/life balance. We provide medical dental and vision care, disability insurance (short and long term), Life & AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Commuter Transportation and Parking Reimbursement), and Employee Assistance Programs. Additionally, we provide Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Holiday Pay, Educational Assistance, Certification /Training Reimbursement, and a 401(k)-retirement savings contribution plan (with employer match).

GLOTECH, Inc. is seeking a Database Architect to support the corporate office of Sea World Parks & Entertainment, located in Orlando, Florida. Prefer local candidates to the Orlando, FL or surrounding area as this role will be required to be onsite one day per week. Remote candidates will only be considered from Sea World approved states (OR NJ CT WA NC VA CA FL PA TX).

This position requires “on call” responsibilities for one week each month and also requires being on support 24/7 for high-priority system outages. This candidate will join a database team size of five people including the director and four other senior DBA's.

The ideal candidate will be in a technical lead architect role as the Director’s “right hand”. Their responsibilities include architect work 25% of the time, technical lead work 25% of the time and senior DBA work 50% of the time.

• Architect breakdown (25%):
  The architect work entails having experience thinking of applications that could help streamline or create efficiency for a specific business problem. This person must have brought an application from conception through development AKA finding a business problem, creating a solution, designing that solution and then building it out. They will be responsible for architecting some work internal to the database team from concept to design to execution.
  
  An example of this work is building customized applications into the environment to monitor systems. Specifically, the person in this role before built a tool that could access the data in an effort to deploy it across fleets to see what users were accessing what systems. This tool could technically serve as an audit tool, but it was moreso used to determine what systems were not being used like hosts, databases, systems, etc.
  
  so that they could then be decommissioned.
• Technical lead breakdown (25%):
  The technical lead work entails having experience working with cross department teams and working with them in order to ensure their application plans will be feasible with the database. This person must have the business acumen to work with other stakeholders and developers from other teams to guide, aid and solution how their specific application can or cannot integrate with the database (and if there’s an issue where it can’t interact, how can we get it there).
  
  This means they will be working with other application teams to design, implementation and make decisions on their applications so that it can integrate with all of the systems ically, full…