Oracle DBA Principal Database engineer
Parsippany NJ (Hybrid)
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for building services and coming up with appropriate database solutions to business problems
- Debug critical database issues and provide solutions.
- Research Design Develop and/or modify applications using SQL PL/SQL or Python.
- Prototyping solutions and recommending the adoption of new technologies and continually improve our client experience.
- Development and Deployment of application database changes / releases to production and NonProduction environments
- Selfreliant handson position on the team to lead and drive code quality maintain application stability in an agile environment.
- Collaborate with database team peers product owners UX/UI Internal/External stakeholders and globally distributed teams to understand requirements and develop application in compliance to client needs
- Assist in the development of overall feature and focusing on the outcome and deliverables either meeting or exceeding expectations
- Define engineering best practices and mentor teams to write elegant code using effective automated unit tests & TestDriven Development methodologies
- Develop specifications for new database services.
- Meet deadlines and manage multiple dynamic priorities
Education / Experience / Certification
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field is required. Masters degree is preferred.
- 10 years of experience as a Database Developer/DBA in a fastpaced agile environment preferably in a product development environment. Minimum of 7 years as Oracle Developer/DBA with
- Deep expertise on database internals expert level PL/SQL development skills expert level SQL development skills and Python/Shell programming experience
- Expert level experience with all aspects of Oracle databases and features. Deep knowledge and working experience in Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) and expert level Oracle Partitioning experience is desired. Experience in RDS Oracle and RDS PostgreSQL is a plus but not mandatory.
- Expert level database performance tuning skills
- Experience working with Linux operating systems such as RedHat. Experience with Ubuntu is a plus.
- Experience in application deployment automation and DevOps tools such as Artifactory GIT Bitbucket Jenkins and Ansible
- Knowledge of public clouds such as AWS Azure or GCP
- Exceptional interpersonal skills that include the ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally with technical and nontechnical personnel at all levels.
- Java and Hibernate development experience is preferred
- Experience working in an Agile Environment with great collaboration skills
- Oracle Certification is a huge plus