Hybrid Staff Database Engineer

at EEOC

• Job title: Staff Database Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $145,000 - $186,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: MS SQL Server, Oracle, RDBMS, RTOS, SDLC, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Mid-Senior Database Engineer role at Early Warning responsible for database administration and risk management. Collaborating with stakeholders to maintain secure, reliable, and performant database services across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Be a thought leader: a mid-senior point of expertise on Database Engineering design, issues, industry trends, and developing technologies.
• Partners with leadership to develop strategy.
• Sets the direction, planning, and execution of database administration priorities in regards to security, risk management, scalability, and reliability.
• Leads critical incidents from inception through incident resolution as well as throughout the root cause analysis process.
• Documents and onboards new technology and provides knowledge transfer to others.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management by protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and their data.
• Forward thinking in upgrade paths, compute and storage capacity expansion, and database hardening and patching.
• Transforms business requirements into technical specifications that demonstrate effective data design and system architecture to meet SLAs (RTOs and RPOs).
• Key contributor in implementing proactive monitoring/alerting and automatic corrective actions.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture including but not limited to: system installation, configuration, and performance management.
• Collaborates and builds cross functional influence and motivates others; serves as internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
• Oversees the work of others in a supportive and effective manner.
• Mentor, coach, and guide other Database Engineers.
• Works closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and creates a partnership for Early Warning where database services are reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

Requirements

• Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Proficient in Oracle and MS SQL Server in the areas of clustering, replication, partitioning, encryption, and high availability/disaster recovery configurations from a design, implementation, and support standpoint.
• Must be willing to be cross-trained and lead in other RDBMS technologies in these areas.
• A minimum of 12 years of data management, architecture, and systems experience for large-scale implementations
• Hands on experience designing and deploying secure database systems for high performance, resiliency, availability, and reliability
• Advanced experience in identifying and leading tuning and performance improvements for database systems within and across the technology stack.
• RDBMS domain expertise.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean), and DevOps practices.
• Seasoned verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present any data management concept to stakeholders in most levels of the business
• Ability to work outside normal business hours and be part of a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Background or drug screen.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work. And SO much more!