Director Database Administration

Job Description:

• Plans and manages large scale database projects.
• Ensures that database applications comply with University requirements and professional standards.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with information technology vendors.
• Develops, documents and promotes standards to ensure the reliability and accessibility of University databases.
• Creates or modifies programming, or configures application software, to access and maintain databases. Installs, tests and debugs database application software.
• Maintains databases through software upgrades, patches, data migration, backup and recovery, and writes programs to automate these processes.
• Hires, trains and evaluates performance of staff.
• Provides training to end-users or develops programs or documentation for end-user training. Provides end-user-support. Provides technical expertise to project teams and production support programmers.
• Researches and recommends new software or technology to maintain database systems. Gathers and documents requirements for new or modified databases and user access programs.

Short Job Description:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution, or Bachelor's degree in a non-related field from an accredited institution combined with relevant experience.
• Five years' relevant experience
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Project management experience.
• Experience Developing programming or database standards.
• Supervisor or lead experience.
• Vendor management experience.