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Senior Teradata Database Administrator
Lansing, MI – Hybrid – Only Locals
One Year Contract
Looking for the candidates who can work without any visa sponsorship.
Interview Process: Virtual Interview via MS Teams video. Please use laptop and be prepared to share screen if asked.
Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week. (Required onsite days are currently Tuesdays and Wednesdays but this is subject to change.)
Local candidates ONLY. Candidates must be located in Michigan within 1 hour of Lansing, MI at time of submission.
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
- Teradata database
- Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU)
- Teradata backup & recovery
- Performance tuning and resource optimization
- Extract Transform Load (ETL)
Clear and concise written and verbal communication is crucial to success and productivity in this role.
The state maintains an enterprise data warehouse built on the Teradata ecosystem. Below is a list of services; however, this list is not exhaustive.
8 years required for the following:
- Teradata database
- Upgrades, provisioning, software maintenance, scripting – BASH, Perl, Python, Glink
- Teradata ecosystem health monitoring
- Teradata node management
- Teradata Viewpoint administration
- Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU)
- PSIM (Platform Service Intelligent Monitoring) administration
- Teradata vendor upgrades
- Teradata workload management
- Teradata backup & recovery
- Performance tuning and resource optimization
- Extract Transform Load (ETL)
- Unix/Linux knowledge
- Cloud computing fundamentals, resource allocation, networking, preferably MS Azure
- Statistics
- Audits & security plans
- Federal requirements – NIST 800-53, IRS Pub 1075, SSA, Medicaid, etc.
The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) service offered by DTMB provides customers with the ability to conduct high performance analytics, data mining activities, and enhanced decision support capabilities. Currently, the EDW service employs Teradata technology.
This position will serve as a platform administrator for the EDW, consisting of 3 distinct platforms (Production, Development/Disaster Recovery, and Test). The EDW provides enterprise data warehousing services to executive branch department as well as the State Court Administrator Offices statewide. A total of 7 departments are supported, with a user base of over 10,000 and 40 Terabytes of data. This position researches and coordinates long term EDW strategies with all current and potential users, DTMB management and vendor personnel. This position defines the technical planning, implementation plan, and delivery of the EDW platform services and supporting technologies to meet the State of Michigan’s business requirements and objectives. This includes vendor communication, trouble reporting, escalated troubleshooting, and release/patch management. This position is responsible for providing operating system guidance along with EDW security expertise for the systems as well as advising the Agencies on disaster recovery planning strategies related to the EDW and their business applications. The position is also responsible for platform performance monitoring and resolving performance issues. This position provides direct technical expertise to department DBAs and specialists across the enterprise.