Lead Database Consultant

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not provided

The Lead Database Consultant will be part of a team-based approach, providing complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of clients. This role is critical in presales, delivery, consulting, and bringing improvements and optimization to managed services customers. The role also involves thought leadership.

Requirements

• Database Expertise:
  • Database server configuration and maintenance
  • Backup procedures and disaster recovery plans
  • Proactive monitoring of database systems
  • Troubleshooting of operational problems
  • Data architecture (normalized and/or dimensional data models)
  • DDL generation and data transformation
  • Scripting and stored procedure development

Responsibilities

• Client Service & Support:
  • Provide all aspects of client service generally associated with Database Consultants (DBC).
  • Coordination, analysis, design, implementation, and administration of IT solutions.
  • Analyze client infrastructure and processes, recommending best practices for improvements.
  • Administer backup procedures and disaster recovery plans.
  • Proactively monitor systems to prevent potential issues.
  • Respond to monitoring alerts and troubleshoot operational problems.
  • Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and restoration and recovery of corrupted databases.
  • Develop and review action plans (maintenance, deployment, upgrades, etc.).
  • Complete all relevant client documentation.
• Data Architecture & Management:
  • Develop a thorough understanding of client information (warnings, handoffs, briefing notes).
  • Develop, implement, and maintain complex data architectures.
  • Own Problem Management, assessing incidents.

Application Instructions

• Not provided

Company Information

• Company: Pythian
• Description: Pythian excels at helping businesses use data, analytics, and cloud to transform how they compete and win. They deliver advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud solutions, partnering with major cloud vendors AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle. They specialize in data and cloud transformation for mid- and large-sized businesses.