Lead Teradata Database Administrator

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, andLoad (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 eco systems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  
• Proven experience of at least 5+ years as primary/lead DBA with strong leadership and presentation skills.
• 7+ years of experience as a Teradata DBA on Version 15+ (preferably 17+) and experience leading Teradata major upgrade/floor sweep
• 3+ years of experience with Teradata 6800/1800 system or IntelliFlex 
• 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL using SQL Assistant/Teradata Studio
• 3+ years of experience extracting, loading, and transforming structured/unstructured data using Teradata Utilities (FastLoad, Multiload, FastExport, BTEQ, TPT) in a Unix/Linux environment
• 3+ years of experience performance tuning in a large database (>5TB) or data warehouse environment, using advanced SQL, DBQL and Explain plans
• 3+ years of experience analyzing project requirements and developing detailed database specifications, tasks, dependencies, and estimates
• 3+ years of experience identifying and initiating resolutions to customer facing problems and concerns associated with a query or database related business need. 
• Data warehouse or equivalent system experience
• Excellent verbal/written communication, end client facing, team collaboration, mentoring skills, and strong work ethics.
• Demonstrates strong culture fit through integrity, compassion, inclusion, relationships,
  innovation, and performance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications
  
• Experience working in large Design Development and Implementation (DDI) projects.
  
• Knowledge/experience with Cloud databases such as Snowflake and migration from on Prem to Cloud project
• 5+ years logical and physical data modeling experience
• 5+ years with Erwin or other data modeling software
• 3+ years maintaining and creating models using OpenText BI-Query
• Teradata Vantage Certified Master
• Experience upgrading to Teradata IntelliFlex
  
• 3+ years identifying and initiating resolutions to customer problems and concerns associated with a Data Warehouse or equivalent system
  
• 3+ years working with end users/customers to understand requirements for technical solutions to meet business needs
  
• 3+ years collaborating with technical developers to strategize solutions to align with business requirements
• 3+ years defining standards and best practices and conducting code reviews
• Experience working with project teams in metadata management, data/IT governance, business continuity plan, data security
• Experience in Application Server Hardware/Software Administration (Windows/Linux)
• Experience working in matrix organization as an effective team player
• Experience working in agile environment such as Scrum framework and iterative/incremental delivery/release. Experience in tools like DevOps and GitHub will be a plus.