Optum ยท 4 months ago
Senior Lead Teradata Database Administrator, Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $189K/yr
7+ years expOptum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The DBA will be responsible for the overall database delivery of the Enterprise Data Warehouse for the Medicaid agency, ensuring optimal performance and supporting Teradata upgrades.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Manage, monitor, and maintain OnPrem Teradata hardware/software including patches, replacements, and upgrades with support from Teradata
Support data governance, metadata management, and system administration
Plan and execute tasks required to ensure the Teradata system is operational including occasional evening and weekend support for Teradata maintenance
Provide direction to developers on Operational, Design, Development, and Implementation projects to ensure best use of the Teradata system including review/approval of database components (such as tables, views, SQL code, stored procedures)
Performing database backup and recovery operations - using the BAR DSA and NetBackup
Developing proactive processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning
Providing day-to-day support for the EDW users problems like job hands, slowdowns, inconsistent rows, re-validating headers for tables with RI constraints, PPIs, and configuration
Maintaining rules set in the Teradata Active System Management (TASM) and supporting workload management
Maintaining the Teradata Workload Manager with the proper partitions and workloads based on Service Levels
Supporting the database system and application server support for the Disaster Recovery (DR) build/test, annual drill, and quarterly maintenance as needed
Actively monitoring the health of the Teradata system and Teradata Managed Servers (TMS) using Viewpoint and other tools and application servers and make preventive or corrective actions as needed
Maintaining access rights, role rights, priority scheduling, and reporting using dynamic workload manager, Database Query Log (DBQL), usage collections and reporting of ResUsage, AmpUsage, and security administration etc
Coordinating with the team and customers in supporting database needs and making necessary changes to meet the business, contractual, security, performance, and reporting needs
Supporting internal or external audit process and address vulnerabilities or risk proactively
Prepare and support IRS and internal audit
Coordinating with Teradata to perform Teradata system hardening and delivery of Safeguard Computer Security
Evaluation Matrix (SCSEM) Reports as needed, addressing issues in the hardening and vulnerability scan report
Generating and maintaining capacity management, Space, and CPU reports on analyzing the Spool, CPU, I/O, Usage, and Storage resources and proactive monitoring to meet performance and growth requirements
Reviewing and resolving Teradata alerts and communicating any risk / issues or impact to the management, team, and business users through appropriate communication strategy
Effectively reporting status, future roadmap, proactive process improvements, automation, mitigation strategies, and compensating controls to the management and clients
Leading database or data related meetings and projects/activities delivering quality deliverables with minimal supervision/direction
Sharing knowledge, coaching/mentoring other members in the team for backups
Performing additional duties that are normally associated with this position, as assigned
Responsible for front-end tool (OpenText Bi-Query) and model maintenance and administration
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience as a Teradata DBA on Version 15+ (preferably 17+) and experience leading Teradata major upgrade/floor sweep
5+ years of experience as primary/lead DBA with solid leadership and presentation skills
5+ years of experience writing complex SQL using SQL Assistant/Teradata Studio
3+ years of experience with Teradata 6800/1800 system or IntelliFlex
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
Demonstrated excellent verbal/written communication, end client facing, team collaboration, mentoring skills, and solid work ethics
Demonstrated solid culture fit through integrity, compassion, inclusion, relationships, innovation, and performance
Preferred
Teradata Vantage Certified Master
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
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
Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications
Experience working in large Design Development and Implementation (DDI) projects
Experience upgrading to Teradata IntelliFlex
Knowledge/experience with Cloud databases such as Snowflake and migration from on Prem to Cloud project
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
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