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University of Cincinnati
Database Administrator Lead, Digital Technology Solutions
SQL Server
Snowflake
Informatica
Edtech.com's Summary
University of Cincinnati is hiring a Database Administrator Lead, Digital Technology Solutions to serve as a senior technical authority for the university's enterprise database, cloud data, and integration platforms. The lead sets standards and engineering practices for scalable data pipelines, platform reliability, security, and data quality, while guiding other database administrators through modernization and migration work. The role also drives complex technical initiatives that make enterprise data ready for AI use.
Highlights
- Lead other database administrators by giving direction and reviewing their code and system-level work.
- Build and modify highly complex databases, and write complex functions, scripts, stored procedures, and triggers that support application development.
- Coordinate database performance, tuning, sizing, and reliability, and monitor usage and data integrity.
- Design and support systems for stand-alone and high availability environments, and write design specifications and documentation for assigned database projects.
- Coordinate complex ETL/ELT solutions that integrate systems with databases, and maintain highly complex reports and visualizations.
- Manage database upgrades and patching, resolve security and access problems, and respond to escalated system issues.
- Oversee vendor database support and coordinate plans for business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Requires a bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field, or eight years of relevant experience in its place, plus four years of relevant experience.
- Needs at least five years of SQL Server administration and secure architecture, with Microsoft SQL Server as the primary platform.
- Prefers security and administration experience with cloud platforms like Snowflake and Informatica, along with knowledge of Oracle.
Database Administrator Lead, Digital Technology Solutions Full Description
Job Title: Database Administrator Lead, Digital Technology Solutions
Posting Start Date: 10/1/26
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Job Overview
The Database Administrator Lead serves as a senior technical authority for enterprise data engineering, database technologies, cloud data platforms, integration platforms, and related enterprise SaaS technologies. The role defines standards, patterns, architecture, and engineering practices for scalable data pipelines, platform reliability and resilience, security, automation, data quality, metadata, lineage, and AI-ready data products. This position leads complex technical initiatives, provides advanced platform engineering and administration, and guides engineers across modernization, integration, migration, and enterprise platform efforts.
Essential Functions
- Serve as a technical or team lead by providing guidance and direction to other database administrators. Participate in code and system level reviews of other database administrators’ work.
- Function as the subject matter expert on one or multiple systems.
- Create, modify or develop high complexity databases. Participate and coordinate the performance, reliability, tuning, and sizing of databases.
- Create highly complex functions, scripts, stored procedures, and triggers to support application development.
- Participate in moderately to highly complex database design and architecture to support application development projects and prepare moderate to highly complex design specifications and functional documentations for assigned database projects.
- Research, design, implement and support systems for stand-alone and high availability environments.
- Coordinate the development, maintenance, utilization and continuous improvement of standard operating procedures. Create, implement and maintain established standards to support the security of the system.
- Assist in development of policies and procedures to access or interact with remote resources.
- Coordinate creation and maintenance of moderate to highly complex ETL/ELT solutions and integration of systems with databases.
- Ethically handle export control, restricted and controlled data. Assist in data transfers or file sharing.
- Coordinate database upgrades and patch maintenance. Analyze and resolve security and access problems related to the overall system and database. Monitor database performance, usage, and data integrity.
- Maintain history reports; identify and address reoccurring issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve any related hardware, software, user access, or other issues. Respond to escalated system issues.
- Oversee vendor database support; assist with database updates and integration of changes through the database environments.
- Develop and maintain highly complex reports and visualizations.
- Follow established standards for testing new software releases.
- Work with user community to understand data access and integration needs.
- Participate in peer knowledge sharing groups. May participate as part of a scrum team focused on database related delivery initiatives.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies.
- Coordinate plans for business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Techonology, Computer Science, or related field
Eight (8) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized training can be used in lieu of education requirement.
Required Experience
Four (4) years of relevant experience.
Additional Qualifications Considered
- 5 years minimum of SQL Server Administration and secure architecture required.
- Cloud applications like Informatica and Snowflake security and administration is ideal.
- Primary platform knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server required and Snowflake, Informatica and Oracle is ideal.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
- Sitting - Continuously
- Repetitive hand motion (such as typing) - Continuously
- Hearing, listening - Continuously
- Talking - Continuously
- Standing - Often
- Walking - Often
- Lifting - up to 20 pounds - Seldom
REQ: 104269
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