Senior Database Manager

Title : Database Platform CoE Leader

Location : Toronto-Bremner ON

Duration : 4-6 months temp to hire

Note from HM : We need candidates who meet the JD criteria, are genuinely interested in temp to perm after 4-6 months, and whose salary expectation for the position aligns with the budget for the role they are aligned to. Both roles are also Hybrid, requiring the candidate to go into the office 2 days a week (although they can go in more frequently if they wish).

For this position ideally, we want candidates to be strong in Mongo and Postgres DB technologies (NoSQL technologies) and they must be proficient with public cloud services and capabilities.

Job Profile Description

• Supervises employees as direct reports.
• Oversees assigning, directing and evaluating work; conducting performance evaluations, progressive counseling and career development discussions.
• Provides critical input in to hiring, discipline and termination decisions as well as salary and bonus actions.
• Establishes a consolidated current state of the art view of key data assets and related processes; drive the definition and implementation of a data management vision and strategy to include the development of data architecture to maximize the usefulness, availability and accuracy of data.
• Provides technical leadership for data modeling, management, integration, warehousing, business intelligence, storage and other areas related to key strategic projects.
• Works with domain architects and solutions delivery teams to identify and support cross-business and cross-region opportunities for reuse, collaboration and standardization to meet business needs.
• Controls and monitors user access to the database; monitoring database usage and optimizing database performance; monitoring system alerts and errors and acting accordingly; controlling and monitoring user access to the database; performing application tuning and performance monitoring; and peer review of database activities initiated by others.
• Works as part of a team which provides support 24 / 7 to global users.
• Modifies database structures using database administration tools and programming as needed.
• Troubleshoots database issues to keep existing databases running efficiently.
• Troubleshoots a wide range of issues including server availability and coding issues for database configurations