Senior Database Administrator, IT Enterprise

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
 
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

The primary role of the Senior Oracle Applications DBA is to work with Oracle Database 19c and Oracle EBS 12.2.14. Candidate will be very hands-on and will ensure production up-time service levels are maintained and made available per requirements that include backup, recovery, refresh, performance tuning, and security (physical and data).
 

Key Accountabilities:

• Designs, Installs, maintains and controls the organization's production and non-production databases.

• Provides on-call support for production environments.

• Provides 24/7 support for various activities including: Database maintenance, application releases, disaster recovery, database upgrades and patching.

• Play a key role in ensuring the availability, performance and security of the databases.

• Collaborates on the development of technical and security standards with other database administrators and technical resources.

• Teamwork: Communicating with the team in an open, balanced and objective manner.
   

Skills:

• Proficiency in more than one RDBMS and OS technology.

• Experience in file structures, design, retrieval and access methods and related tasks.

• Understands the systems development process and has a solid understanding of business processes.

• Analytical ability, good communication skills, strong judgment, and the ability to work effectively with clients, IT Management and staff.

• Strong performance tuning skills.

• Knowledge in the following areas: IT concepts, strategies, and methodologies, architecture and technical standards, database administration tools and utilities, application architectures and design principles, infrastructure architectures - backup and recovery systems, storage subsystems. 

• Experience to manage servers on cloud as PaaS or IaaS.

• Provides consultation to application developers in SQL coding and tuning, and coding and deployment of stored procedures. 

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

• Client focused approach to work.

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.

• Excellent knowledge of core Oracle databases required (up through 19c).

• Excellent knowledge of Oracle EBS database administration through 12.2.14 required, including concurrent processing, system administration, start up and shut down, RAC, OEM in the EBS space, support of printing including XML, managing of schema statistics, identification of poorly performing queries, performance tuning, RAC refreshes.

• Excellent knowledge of Data Guard and DR concepts.

• Knowledge of Oracle EBS system administration to monitor concurrent requests and collect information on job logs.

• Proficient knowledge to manage and monitor WebLogic Server, SOA Suite and Vertex.

• Comfort with Linux and windows – able to log in to various environments, start/stop/monitor services in these environments – determine status or issues in these environments.

• Unix shell scripting.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related work experience.

• OCI Certification.
   

Minimum Work Experience:

• Extended hands-on work experience in supporting Oracle RDBMS in a multi-platform environment. Has worked with other enterprise, RDBMS vendors.

• 6-11 Years of experience as an Oracle APPS DBA.