Enterprise Database Administrator at Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

Job title: Enterprise Database Administrator at Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

Job description: Overview

Enterprise Database Administrator (2 Positions)
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Find Your Spot at Humber

If you are interested in higher education and are looking to contribute to the largest polytechnic College in Ontario as we shape the future of our students and communities, here is your opportunity to join our team.

At Humber, our career paths open up a world of infinite possibilities for you to explore. People are at the heart of the Humber experience. Here, every day we work shoulder to shoulder to deliver excellence, and in doing so, we redefine what it means to be a leader in polytechnic education. Humber employees are a diverse group of committed, caring and fun-loving people. We learn and grow together. We take finding and growing the right talent very seriously. We strive to find and nurture extraordinary employees who bring their best each day Humber is a place like no other. Here you will “Find Your Spot” and build a career and future that grows as we grow. In this rich, diverse workplace, we encourage innovation ideas. We support you to find deep meaning and purpose so that you can be proud of what you do and where you work.

We provide leadership for the continuous development of a secure, flexible, and dependable IT environment that is built on a foundation of transparency, collaboration, client focus, and respect. Together we transform Client ideas into results, leverage technology to enable student engagement and success, support students and employees in the journey of discovery, deliver integrated technology solutions to improve collaboration and communication across the Humber community and improve business processes and enable better decision making through improved outcome measurement. Information Technology Services is always striving to enhance the IT experience for students, staff, and visitors.

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Enterprise Database Administrator

Role Profile:

The database administrator will be responsible for the direction, future planning, design & continuous operation of the Enterprise database services (including Student Information System (SIS), Financial Information System (FIS) and the Human Resources Management System (HRMS)), associated middleware and third party applications, to ensure that required services levels & functional requirements are met.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Architecting and planning the design, build, configuration, maintenance, capacity planning & security of the Enterprise database services, middleware & third-party applications.
• Leading the implementation of application releases through the different environments.
• Integration of data with applications & services that are both internal & external to the College.
• Leading problem analysis & resolution regarding critical incidents & daily support operations such as unexpected outages, database contention, security modifications & back-up or disaster recovery procedures.

Key Responsibilities include:

Responsible for the architecture design, future planning, implementation &/or use of database & middleware applications to ensure that any changes to these environments provides optimum performance, reliability & security:

• Engage functional areas of the College, including management, to ensure that identified changes to existing and/or new functionality meet the business needs of the affected parties & that any & all risks are identified, understood by those parties and mitigated/reduced.
• Accountable for Oracle database architecture & security design, provisioning testing, training, development, QA, & production environments; including database & application software installation, quarterly release management, configuration, performance tuning & facilitation of end-to-end testing to ensure target service levels are met.
• The incumbent will be required to support & manage databases & middleware applications for systems such as Banner SIS, FIS and ODS, Workflow, Document Management, Cognos and HRMS within a physical, virtual & clustered environment spanning multiple databases & applications tiers.

Consult & advise with business analysts, clients and management in defining business requirements and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes for database and middleware applications. Document and recommend best (effective & efficient) options to support business requirements, identify impacts, risks and mitigation strategies of systems, business & security changes:

• Provide key advice and recommendations on the establishment of accepted service levels with client departments / management & be accountable for system performance to meet those levels.
• Proactively analyze systems, logs, exception reports and make recommendations to improve database performance and operations; Lead cross functional / department teams on enterprise projects to improve the affected applications and related business processes. Provides direction and feedback to the project team in terms of project goals, deliverables, timelines and quality of work. Responsible for providing performance feedback to managers of the project team members.
• Research & assimilate industry standard guidelines & best practices for database & applications management, security & integration into the College policies.
• Provide innovative solutions and recommendations to college management to business opportunities though application of best practices, industry guidance, fiscal awareness and institutional policies and direction.

Responsible for incident management and problem resolution & input on resource planning:

• Incident management and problem resolution will include leading a cross functional team, resource allocation & coordination, requests receipt, monitoring of resolution progress, provision of status updates to groups as appropriate, determining root cause & ultimately validation of implemented solutions.
• Provide recommendations to the capacity planning of servers, storage & network environments in order to ensure that resource requirements are addressed in advance of actual requirements for implementation on a timely basis. These recommendations are always accepted.
• Upgrade technical skills to keep abreast of trends and changes.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to college management where inappropriate of misuse of the system by staff, faculty and/or student.

Review security & access control settings & configuration:

• Ensure that settings & configurations meet College, provincial & federal security & privacy policy requirements as well as client needs.
• Ensure that auditing and controls are in place to ensure that appropriate access has not been modified or changed beyond accepted policy and provide feedback to the appropriate management and/security personnel in incident and/or performance.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Four-year degree in Computer Science/ Management Science or equivalent.
• Oracle and MS SQL Certification
• RedHat Certification

Experience:

• 7 years’ experience in a relevant field where the incumbent has managed a large system which include clustering and load balance applications. Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the IT environment, component and operations is a must.

Skills:

• Experience in Oracle, MS- SQL MySQL & their associated applications.
• The incumbent will be able to demonstrate leadership and strong listening skills as well as a strong ability to problem solve.
• Communication skills and change management skills are considered an asset.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Consideration for Support Staff and Academic positions will be given to internal employees in accordance with the respective collective agreements.

Humber College is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of our students and our city. We actively seek Indigenous Peoples and individuals from equity-deserving groups with demonstrated skills and knowledge to deal with all aspects of equity, diversity and inclusion in a post-secondary environment. Humber College is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Our HR Generalists will work with applicants requesting accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. This document is available in alternate formats upon request.

Hours Per Week: 37.5
Position Type: FT Administration
Work Locations: North Campus 205 Humber College Blvd. Etobicoke M9W 5L7
Job Family: Information Technology
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2021
Job Posting: 5/11/21
Department: Information Technology Services

Company: Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

Expected salary:

Location: Etobicoke, ON

Job date: Wed, 12 May 2021 23:59:25 GMT