Senior Database Administrator

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning! Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences. About the Role The Senior Database Administrator will work closely with the Engineering, Architecture, and Operations teams building and supporting our mission-critical database systems as Business Wire undertakes a digital transformation journey. As a member of the DBA team, you will be responsible for defining and supporting new and existing database systems across public cloud and traditional data centers. You will help guide best practices in database administration, data high availability, database management, database design, process improvement, requirements analysis, and the introduction of innovation with a focus on automation. What You'll Do Work as a member of the DBA team, primarily partnering with the Application Development teams to provide guidance, troubleshooting and optimization for in-house applications Perform DBA duties such as responding to requests for database support, monitoring database availability, performing backups, managing user access, participating in failover testing, and other normal activity Document the database environment using industry standard diagramming techniques showing application/database dependencies. Additionally, you will be creating a data dictionary and documenting data mappings between disparate data sources Perform DDL and application code reviews code reviews for functionality related to a database Understand programing language (Python, Java, similar) and make informed design suggestions for efficient and logical use of the data and of database resources Provide high-end technical DBA s