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Terasen Gas is the largest distributor of natural gas in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest gas utilities in Canada. More than that, we’re a great company with forward-thinking practices that keep our people challenged and recognized.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyzes and translates business information requirements into logical database designs; develops the data infrastructure that best supports the business; maps data models to existing data design interfaces; conducts performance tuning and optimization.
- Works with system developers to develop data models, design alternatives and approaches; reviews and revises estimates for design and implementation activities.
- Monitors data base performance using various monitoring tools and develops solutions with application teams and software vendors to address and resolve performance issues for medium to large databases; monitors the growth of data bases and performs further tuning as required; analyzes operational problems and data base recoveries to determine and implement problem fixes.
- Reviews technical infrastructure for single points of failure and evaluates the business requirements to ensure high availability for application, database and network systems.
- Works closely with the application developer and operations teams as needed to complete the application fail-over and recovery strategy; makes recommendations for disk storage configurations.
- Develops, communicates, and maintains the data architecture and data models at the conceptual, logical, and physical levels; presents the data and database architectures to project teams; coordinates work to apply data models to existing databases.
- Interfaces with development team members and management to develop, upgrade, optimize and troubleshoot the database systems as required in a SQL Server and Oracle environment.
- Participates in the development of enterprise data architecture, policies, standards and guidelines related to the system wide integration of data.
- Evaluates and selects tools to support data modeling and design; identifies, evaluates and recommends technologies to support the database architecture.
- Identifies issues of data ownership across the enterprise, including data integration issues for consolidation and transformation.
- Provides direction, guidance, and technical support to clients, applications, and operations areas; co-ordinates production turnover procedures with operations and application maintenance personnel.
- Performs other duties of a minor nature related to the above responsibilities, which do not affect the evaluation of the job.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- A minimum of five (5) to six (6) years of related experience in database administration with a thorough demonstrated working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database design and implementation.
- Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database administration experience with a thorough demonstrated knowledge of database design principals; competence in conceptual, logical, and physical database design.
- Expertise in designing data architecture, selecting appropriate technologies and products and designing an implementation approach.
- Demonstrated competence in managing medium to large size database projects with multiple subprojects, system interfaces and specialized functions, which span across several business units.
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