Database Administrator - NY, NJ, Or PA

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We're in the business of people helping people and you can help us change lives just by working here. Whether it's helping a member make a transaction, buy their first home, or improve their financial wellness one step at a time - you have an impact on their lives just by working here, no matter what your position may be.

Work with us - and be part of something bigger than banking.

In exchange for your time and talents, we offer generous benefits. After all, you make us awesome, so we take care of you with things like...

• Pension Plan, 401k Plan, and 401k matching contributions
• Excellent health benefits
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO), Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and Wellness Time Off (WTO)
• More than ten paid holidays per year
• Wellness program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan repayment
• Employee recognition program
• Educational incentives
  ...and more!

At Visions, we do, and will continue to, treat all of our employees fairly and with complete respect, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, and any other differences. We strive to celebrate the diversity of our employees, as they are part of the fabric of this great credit union.

Title of Position: Database Administrator - NY, NJ or PA

Position Type: Full-Time. Typical shifts include Monday through Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM

Compensation Range: $65,000.00/Yr - $90,000.00/Yr. *Hiring rates may be dependent on a number of factors, including years of directly related work experience, education, geographic location or special skills*

Location: Remote Opportunity available for NY, NJ, or PA residents ONLY.

At this time, Visions Federal Credit Union will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e., H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization). If you need sponsorship now or in the future, look for this statement in the job description before you apply: Visions Federal Credit Union will consider sponsoring a new, qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
If this is not listed in the job description, Visions Federal Credit Union will not provide sponsorship for the candidate to work in the United States.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Work with multiple vendor and enterprise managed databases, to provide solutions for business units looking to utilize data.
• Assist in determining data elements and structures that need to be accessed and extracted, moved, and loaded, validated and cleaned, and standardized and transformed; uses data integration tools to support all these processes.
• Develop, manage, and test backups and restores of managed DB environments.
• Monitor SQL Server performance; identify and create action plans to improve bottlenecks and perform health checks on designated DB servers.
• Tune SQL server hardware usage and maintain virtual machines (CPU, Memory, Disk space, RAM, etc.)
• Assess the impact of software changes on IT production schedules and workloads and on user department procedures. Recommend and implement design changes to ensure that maximum efficiency is achieved.
• Design the overall structural design of database systems at both the logical and physical levels, working with users and development staff.
• Create databases and database objects such as tables, tablespaces, synonyms, views, triggers, stored procedures, defaults, domains, and indexes.
• Maintain and update schematics and documentation of managed DBs and servers; Work with product owner to develop and recommend operational contingency and disaster recovery plans.
• Review, recommend, and assist in the development of proposals, designs, programming and implementation phases of applications added to database systems in support of providing staff with a variety of high-quality technical options.
• Communicate and coordinate with technical personnel of outside vendors and agencies to define system requirements, develop implementation plans, test new software and new system interfaces, and resolve problems.
• Azure Cloud Admin for Data Warehouse and the primary person for permissions and data masking related to DevSecOps involvement of Warehouse data migrated into the cloud.
• Maintain User/Login Security on designated systems. Work with IAM team to determine appropriate access levels.
• Provides departmental back-up coverage as needed.
• Respond effectively to changing ideas, responsibilities, expectations, trends, strategies, and other processes.
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
• Perform other duties needed to help fulfil our mission, drive our strategy, and support our organization's values.
• After hours/on-call support required on a rotational basis.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science and 1-3 years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database developer; 4-6 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite programs.
• Experience with Azure cloud environments.
• Strong technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and excellent communicational skills are essential.
• Proficient with standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines, PCs, etc.
• Visions remains committed to the aspects of diversity and inclusion and will consider alternative education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

• Expert level knowledge of SQL Server and the concepts of performance tuning, Data Management, and good database design principles.
• Understanding of database application technology tools including Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.
• Ability to perform detailed SQL queries and proficiency with stored procedure development.
• Advanced computer and math skills, adherence to confidentiality, detail oriented.

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