Are you a database professional who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and driving operational excellence? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your expertise can influence technical strategy and support business-critical platforms?
Are you passionate about improving database performance, mentoring others, and researching emerging technologies? Join us and help deliver reliable, scalable database solutions that make a meaningful impact.
About the Business:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below,
https://risk.lexisnexis.com
About our Team:
The team is a geographically distributed DBA/technology team with roughly 20 members across home-based, office-based, and contractor roles. The team includes both employees and contractors and provides database/infrastructure coverage across multiple locations, with a mix of operational support and technical expertise.
About the Role:
This position is a senior role within the database administration team. This position requires total proficiency in all aspects of database administration and design. This position is expected to mentor and oversee junior members of staff and will work closely with the development teams to provide high-quality business solutions and play an active role in projects from inception to delivery.
Responsibilities
- Resolve performance issues and root cause resolution.
- Ensure clear and early communication, in particular ensuring that the line manager and/or relevant parties are kept informed of progress, issues, and difficulties.
- Train junior-level DBA staff as necessary, ensuring they are up to speed on critical processes and technologies.
- Lead research into new or alternative technologies.
- Review and sign off recommendations for upgrades or changes to the back-office infrastructure environment.
- Engage with Technical Architects and other senior members of Development teams to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team, taking responsibility for the implications and impact of their design decisions.
- Responsible for maintenance and “bug fix” activities for existing database infrastructure and equipment.
- Undertake research into new or alternative technologies and make recommendations for upgrades or changes to the database infrastructure environment.
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of DBA experience
- BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required
- Experience as a MySQL DBA along with PostgreSQL or SQL Server is beneficial.
- Proficient in Terraform and Github, Cloud experience such as AWS or Azure (preferably Azure).
- Strong understanding of database infrastructure, maintenance, administration, and design.
- Ability to complete root cause analysis on database-related issues.
- Strong problem-solving skills in multiple operating environments.
- Ability to complete impact analysis on database-related issues.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues that involve database infrastructure.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 5+ years of database administration experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Experience as a MySQL DBA
- Experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server
- Proficiency in Terraform and GitHub
- Cloud experience with AWS or Azure
- Strong understanding of database infrastructure, maintenance, administration, and design
- Ability to perform root-cause analysis on database-related issues
- Strong problem-solving skills across multiple operating environments
- Ability to perform impact analysis on database-related issues
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to troubleshoot database infrastructure connectivity and performance issues
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
