Lead Replication Database Administrator

Job Summary:

Raymond James is seeking a well-rounded Replication Database Administrator with a strong database replication background to join our DBA replication group. This individual will join a dynamic team and will be critical to tuning and managing data movement across a highly distributed environment ensuring data is sourced from the right place with the right technology. Additionally, new data movement technologies including Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) will be used for any application using AWS. This role will follow a hybrid workstyle in one of the following locations: Denver, CO (primary), Saint Petersburg, FL, Memphis, TN, or Southfield, MI.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains business SLA, compliance patch levels, security and operational guidelines for SOC auditing, practices SOP, incident management, and license compliance.
• Support, tunes and monitors operational data streaming/replication topologies to ensure data is in-sync and data latency SLA’s are met.
• Tenaciously works to deliver team goals with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.
• Develop internal tools to facilitate the creation, deployment and monitoring of data replication through automation.
• Participate as part of weekly on-call rotation with other team members.
• Aligns communication, accountability, resources & processes to ensure strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
• Works across functional teams to ensure data is sourced from right place using the right data movement technology.
• Ensures that team continually works on resolving systematic issues in the environment and improving stability, automation and monitoring of systems.
• Uses customer centric approaches for choosing course of action or developing appropriate solutions.
• Designs data streaming/replication topologies.

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Deployment of data replication/streaming in AWS (optional).
• Experience with Kafka (optional).
• Experience with native SQL Server replication and MongoDB (optional).

Skilled in:

• Using scripting languages such as bash, Powershell, SQL and/or Python (required).
• 2-5 years of experience with Oracle and/or SQL Server and/or RedShift (required).
• Creating and maintaining streaming/replication pipelines (required).
• 2-5 years of experience with GoldenGate and/or HVR and/or DMS (required).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Designing and supporting data streaming/replication in a large multi-database platform environment (required).

Ability to:

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.
• Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.
• Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.
• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

Education/Previous Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and five (5) years of relevant experience including database administration, database programming, data engineering or combination of education and training experience.

Licenses/Certifications:

• None required.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:

• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm
• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes

At Raymond James – we honor, value, respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic self, our organization, clients and communities thrive, it is part of our part of our people-first culture. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.

Job :

Technology

Primary Location :

US-CO-Denver-Denver

Organization :

Technology

Schedule :

Full-time

Shift :

Day Job

Travel :

No

Salary Range: CO, NY, CA, WA (based on Education, Work Experience, and Geographic Location)

$130,000 - $145,000

Eligible for Discretionary Bonus :

Yes