Senior Database Engineer / Consultant

Antwerpen  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Function Description

This person is seen as a go-to person by the business. He/she takes the extra mile to ensure our vendors provide the service they are expected to bring on Data structure level (DB / DataMarts / Big Data..)

Primary Tasks and responsibilities

- Advise & consultancy on broad ICT Database Infrastructure technologies
- Experience in Data Types and data modelling
- Design and architectural insight skills in modern database structures
- Follow up on emerging new technologies a evaluate their sense for the company
- Ability to read DB layouts, their configuration setup & advise on improvements
- Work out Business Continuity plans for ICT Infrastructure
- Project related site deployment and integration
- Integrate solutions together with application teams,
- Prepare, analyze (offers), follow-up on orders, guide implementation
- Liaison role between our affiliates and world-wide support partner
- Make, update, verify on existing technical documentation. Report & present solutions
- Make, update & ameliorate standard procedures & statements of work
- Guard, enforce & report on standard procedures
- 3rd Line support (troubleshooting, incident management, debugging)
- Screening of operating companies for possible consolidations
- Adhere to ITIL based processes and work within highly regulated environment.
- Act as high level support for our engineers and off-shore staff, tackle level 3 issues.
- Performance monitoring & tuning on Database structures & their reporting
- Disaster recovery design & support activities

Skills & Competences

Non-Technical profile requirements


- Some flexibility in working hours is required (occasional over-time or weekend/holiday work)
- Work independently as well as in team
- Strong tracking, coordination and project planning skills
- Proactive approach, bring ideas to the table, concerns, issues
- Ability to identify and implement process and/or application improvements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision
- Quick learner, motivated self-starter
- Ability to coach and train younger ICT professionals
- Excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
- Able to follow change management procedures and internal guidelines
- On-call permanency is possible


Methodology/Certification requirements

- Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.
- Advanced course work in technical systems plus continued education in technical disciplines is preferred

Language proficiencies


- English spoken and written
- Dutch is a plus

Plusses


- DBA certifications & DB reporting skills
- Oracle in depth knowledge
- SQL in depth knowledge
- Virtualisation in Cloud environments
- Data migrations & data transformations

Conditions

Safir Consulting is offering a freelance contract during 6 months, startdate is foreseen end of August till April 2016 (+- 6 months).
Extensions will follow after a positive evaluation 1 month before the end of the contract.

Interested?

Send your CV to Filipe de Sousa by email or call for more information

Start date
n.a
From
Safir Consulting
Published at
26.08.2015
Project ID:
972450
Contract type
Freelance
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