JOB DESCRIPTION

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The University of Washington is one of the world’s preeminent public universities in impact and funding. Since 1972, the UW has continued to receive more externally sponsored research funding than any other U.S. public university and is one of the few universities in the U.S. with total research funding nearing two billion. That funding drives crucial, ground-breaking research that transforms lives around the globe.
In the Office of Research at UW , we take pride in creating an outstanding climate of support for UW researchers that helps them compete and succeed. However, the complexity of research administration and regulation grows each day. Our mission in ORIS (Office of Research Information Services) is to reduce that administrative burden by streamlining and automating information services so researchers can spend more time researching.
We in ORIS have an outstanding opportunity open for a Temporary Data Engineer/DBA (Database Administrator)
The Data Engineer/DBA (Database Administrator) will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and security of the databases and data that support ORIS systems. ORIS’s data infrastructure supports systems and services used by award-winning faculty and staff to perform administrative activities including submission of funding applications for consideration, routing them electronically for approval, managing detailed multi-year grant budgets, integrating with other UW systems, and providing reporting capabilities to academic and administrative users. This will reduce the administrative burden on researchers across the University by improving the amount of time researchers can spend on researching; improving University compliance; and ensuring that the University can continue to be at the forefront of academic research.
The Data Engineer/DBA position is charged with ensuring that database resources meet security, performance, reliability, and availability requirements. The Data Engineer/DBA will partner with development teams across multiple products and will need to work with different database systems and hosting platforms. The DBA will provide consultation and assistance in database and data design and will be responsible for provisioning, optimization, operations, and business continuity. The Data Engineer/DBA will work to ensure secure and dependable database performance and operations through implementation, test, integration test, and migration and production deployment and cutover phases. Operations consist of supporting a range of data software components, infrastructure, integrations, and services, some of which target 24/7/365 availability.
Successful candidates must have a solid background in design and implementation of databases and other data infrastructure that support online applications, reporting and analytics, and integrations with other systems.

The Data Engineer/DBA supports databases across platforms and products, both in the cloud and on-premises. The Data Engineer/DBA must provide support through all phases of development as well as production support. A successful person in this position must …

• Collaborate and consult with multiple teams of diverse staff including junior and senior engineering staff as well as technical leads, product owners, and project managers across multiple products.
• Align data and database configuration, maintenance, and operations with overall ORIS IT operational goals and business objectives as outlined by ORIS program portfolio that supports UW’s $1.89 billion research enterprise.
• Lead, plan, and advise on the strategic and tactical direction of all facets of data and database administration across multiple products, from meeting minimum security requirements to ensuring stability, performance, and availability requirements are met.

This position advances the Office of Research’s mission to support the integration of electronic research information systems both as a data engineer, ensuring the optimized and performance applications with the data layer and, as an administrator, ensuring the security and reliability of ORIS’s core database operations. This will reduce the administrative burden on researchers across the University by improving the amount of time researchers can spend on researching; improving University compliance; and ensuring that the University can continue to be at the forefront of academic research.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math/Statistics, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• 6 Years of experience in data engineering and database administration to include at least the following minimum professional experience:
• 6 years hands-on experience as an individual contributor on database implementation, maintenance, and operation in accordance with industry standards, data policies, and security best practices using SQL:
• Data and data infrastructure implementation and optimization for application development and maintenance
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Indexing strategies
• DB performance and monitoring tools (such as SolarWinds, Datadog, RDS Performance Insights, and/or Redgate)
• Query profiling and optimization tools
• ETL tools (such as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), AWS Glue, Informatica, or Alteryx )
• Modeling tools (such as erwin or DbSchema)
• Secure data management practices
• 2 years’ experience configuring and managing databases in the AWS cloud environment including: RDS, EC2.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both oral and written mediums with individuals and groups in order to socialize information and knowledge with a diverse group of colleagues
• Demonstrated ease in technical and non-technical review as both reviewer and reviewee in order to facilitate collaborative group activities such as change control and pull request review

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience with …

• AWS Services such as Glue, DMS, Quicksight, Redshift, data pipeline.
• Performing security audits and reviews of databases and data systems.
• REST API development and management platforms, such as MuleSoft or Boomi (Mulesoft preferred).
• Open-source database technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, etc.
• Information Security standards and frameworks.
• Working in a Scrum-Agile environment.
• Workday suite of applications/modules.
• Workday data model, security, integrations, and data load capabilities.

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES – 10%

• Attend recurring organization meetings and one-on-ones with a supervisor.
• Engage in unplanned communications
• Participate in recurring HR processes