Database Administrator III
D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at ++www.drhorton.com++ for more information.
D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for an ++Database Administrator III++. The right candidate will be responsible to keep the database up and running smoothly 24/7. Responsible to provide a seamless flow of information throughout the company, considering both backend data structure and frontend accessibility for end-users.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Ownership of design, documentation, implementation and continuous maintenance of database policies and procedures
- Analyze key performance indicators and recommend improvements
- Oversee and perform the daily monitoring and analysis of databases and database servers to ensure the continuance of operations
- Manage and perform database performance analysis and tuning to ensure optimal system performance. Major areas of support in this area will include sizing, throughput, scalability, and dependability
- Ensure the security of databases
- Perform and oversee regular backups of all databases and database servers
- Perform and guide restorations of backups in case of system failure or data loss
- Review and oversee all changes to existing production databases to ensure that such changes do not negatively impact database performance or reliability
- Work with software developers to design and implement new database schemas, stored procedures, user defined functions, data transformation service packages, scheduled jobs, etc.
- Oversee and promote database changes through software development lifecycle process
- Ensure the pre-defined development standards for naming conventions, user interface, etc. are followed
- Conducts all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
- Work with users to determine requirements and design for systems
- Estimate time and materials needed to create new or modify existing databases
- Manage the process to migrate data from existing databases to new databases or between database environments
- Ability to participate in on call rotation
- Ability to travel overnight
- Fully in office Monday- Friday
Education and/or Experience
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Seven to ten years of experience as a Production SQL Server DBA and Database Architect for very large databases (over 1TB of data in a single database)
- Seven to ten years of T-SQL experience
- Strong skills in Windows PowerShell or similar scripting language
- Superb troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Ability to multi-task and provide attention to detail
- Proficiency with MS Office and email
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred
- Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, and Data Movement Processes (SnowFlake, dbt Labs, Fivetran)
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) is preferred
Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401(K)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flex Spending Accounts
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
- Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits
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