Data Management and Database Administration Specialist

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Full Time Regular Professional Round Rock, TX, US

Salary Range: $85,913.00 To $ Annually

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At Trellis Company, we're passionate about creating opportunities that change lives.

Our vision is to connect people to education-to-employment pathways that transform their lives. For more than 40 years, we've helped individuals achieve educational and career success through innovative solutions, strategic partnerships, and mission-driven service.

Today, we're building on that legacy by partnering with employers, educational institutions, workforce organizations, and community leaders to create stronger connections between learning and employment while expanding pathways to economic opportunity.

Our mission is to develop and advance initiatives that grow individual economic mobility and expand community prosperity.

At Trellis, you'll find the purpose of a mission-driven nonprofit combined with the energy and innovation of an organization focused on the future. Your ideas matter, your work has impact, and your contributions help create brighter futures for individuals, families, and communities.

Join Trellis and help create pathways to opportunity, economic mobility, and lasting success.

Job Summary

The Data Management and Database Services Specialist provides advanced technical expertise for the administration, security, performance, governance, availability, and lifecycle management of Trellis enterprise data platforms.

The position serves as the organization's primary technical resource for IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, cloud-hosted database services, enterprise data management solutions, and data governance technologies. Responsibilities include database architecture, administration, monitoring, optimization, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, cloud data platform management, data governance, data quality, metadata management, and support of enterprise analytics and artificial intelligence initiatives.

The position works collaboratively with business stakeholders, application owners, cybersecurity personnel, analytics teams, vendors, and technology staff to ensure enterprise data assets remain secure, reliable, compliant, discoverable, trusted, and aligned with Trellis business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Location:

The position is hybrid, two days weekly required in office. Office location is Round Rock, Texas.

The position incumbent is expected to perform the following essential duties and responsibilities of the position with reasonable accommodation.

Database Administration and Operations

• Serve as the primary technical administrator for IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server database environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, monitor, maintain, and support enterprise database platforms.
• Administer databases operating on mainframe, distributed, virtualized, and cloud-hosted platforms.
• Monitor database availability, capacity, performance, storage utilization, and operational health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, service interruptions, performance issues, connectivity problems, and data integrity concerns.
• Design and implement indexing, query optimization, statistics, maintenance, and performance-tuning strategies.
• Coordinate production database changes with application owners, developers, project teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain database standards, inventories, dependency maps, configuration records, architecture documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Maintain enterprise metadata, business glossaries, data inventories,…