Principal Data Base Architect & Engineer

Collabera Inc (Staffing Firm). 

We are based out of Morristown, NJ and we have been providing contingent labor to our clients for last 25 years. In 2015 we placed more than 6,000 contractors across select 100+ clients that we service. End client for this project is a large legal organization with operations in more than 100 countries and has more than 50,000 employees around the world. For eight consecutive years, Fortune has named this company as World’s ‘Most Admired Companies to work for’.

Position Details:

Location : New York NY

Job Title : Principal Data Base Architect & Engineer

Duration : 6 months (could go beyond)

• Client is Global Business Services is designed to provide services to the business units in the areas of technology, sourcing, procurement, legal, finance, and human resources.

• These global centers promote team collaboration using best practices around a specific focus area to drive results and enhance operational efficiencies.

• There is a constant endeavour to benchmark against best-in-class industry standards to improve the quality of deliverables, increase cost savings, enhance productivity and reduce time to market for products and applications.

• A challenging new opportunity has arisen for a DataBase Architect / Principle to join our thriving Hosting and Technology Practice.

• The successful individual will take ownership for the Data components of complex, transformational, infrastructure solutions supporting the business Client Architects and supplier dBase specialists and ensuring operational performance and evolution of the Data services.

• To be successful in this role you will required to successfully manage interactions at a senior level within our global business and suppliers and will include leading internal and partner teams to successfully deliver innovative DataBase technology solutions.

• You will need to demonstrable expertise in high level business critical concepts (e.g. Cloud Computing, Security, Sustainable IT, HA/ DR), and will need to be passionate and commercially savvy.

• This position requires a deep understanding of DataBase technology across multiple vendors and applications, an understanding of the evolving database market, technology trends, and customer adoption trends and evolving technology needs.

• Candidates should be self-motivated and experienced technical leaders who have maintained the hands on ability to build solutions and trouble shoot issues.

• These results need to be achieving in a timely and with sustainable quality.

• The successful applicant will have a track record in bringing efficiency in day-to-day operations have a strong sense of personal accountability in providing end-to-end delivery and have excellent capabilities to work collaboratively across many cultures in a truly global environment.

Essential Responsibilities, Skills and Duties:

• Maintains portfolio of database services by determining requirements; developing and installing solutions.

• Should be practically minded and able to work through technical problems autonomously.

• Able to employ consultative processes to drive the right decisions in the business and Hosting an Technology team.

Skills and Duties:

• Experience as a DataBase Architect focusing on large scale, complex, transformational solutions.

• Knowledge and experience of multiple technologies and their business application.

• High level of technical training / experience including detailed multi-vendor knowledge.

• Knowledge of and able to guide / author a technology strategy.

• Excellent negotiating skills and high commercial awareness including of Resource Cost Models.

• Ability to present to a large external audience, both business and technical, ability to present at board level.

• Experience in leading consultancy engagements within a wide variety organizations and technologies

• Ability to produce conceptual designs for multi technology solutions

• Ability to develop business cases involving complex ROI/TCO/Business benefit analysis, as well as risk mitigation and management

• Ability to create solution proposition Intellectual Property, for repeatable offerings

• Ability to direct or complete themselves the build Cloud Solutions

• Good people management, Strong team player, leadership, and ability to lead large multi-dept. teams of both internal supplier and business IT teams.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to articulate both technical and business ideas clearly and simply.

• Proven ability producing documentation for a business and technical audience.

• Analysis skills, including lateral and innovative thinking

• Represent within the industry by developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of products, industry trends and general business and financial acumen through various sources and initiative.

• Communicate competitive advantage to customers in a compelling articulate manner in speech, writing and formal presentation.

Responsibilities:

· Determines database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and programming; reviewing objectives with clients; evaluating current systems;

· Develops database solutions by designing proposed system; defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, security, back-up, and recovery specifications.

· Installs database systems by developing flowcharts; applying optimum access techniques; coordinating installation actions; documents actions.

· Maintains database performance by identifying and resolving production and application development problems; calculating optimum values for parameters; evaluating, integrating, and installing new releases; completing maintenance; answering user questions.

· Prepares users by conducting training.

· Provides database support by coding utilities, responding to user questions, and resolving problems.

· Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

· Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

· Providing information, software and services that deliver vital insights, intelligent tools, and the guidance of subject matter experts.

· Determines database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and programming; reviewing objectives with clients; evaluating current systems;

· Develops database solutions by designing proposed system; defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, security, back-up, and recovery specifications.

· Installs database systems by developing flowcharts; applying optimum access techniques; coordinating installation actions; documents actions.

· Maintains database performance by identifying and resolving production and application development problems; calculating optimum values for parameters; evaluating, integrating, and installing new releases; completing maintenance; answering user questions.

· Prepares users by conducting training.

· Provides database support by coding utilities, responding to user questions, and resolving problems.

· Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

· Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, Mathematics, Analytical modeling or closely related discipline.

• Professional experience in DataBase Technology, Architecture, Hosting Technologies (10+ years) & Cloud.

• At least 10 years’ technical and 5 leadership experience

• Broad DataBase / Data experience Oracle/ MS SQL / NoSQL / Flat file Data structures / EDW / ETL / stored procedure & query QA, Clustering & HA and Big Data / modern Data Analytics techniques.

• Technology Operations and Service Delivery experience

If you are interested and want to apply, please contact:

Ujjwal Mane

ujjwal.mane(at)collabera.com

973-805-7557