Fort Bend Independent School District
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:
This individual will be responsible for managing SQL Server databases, performing SQL server administration, Database performance tuning, database security, maintaining and troubleshooting all scheduled jobs including DTS (Data Transformation Services) tasks on SQL Servers. DBA will also be responsible for supporting the application development team in designing, modeling and creating databases, stored procedures, triggers etc., and moving all database objects to the production environment. DBA will also be responsible to make sure that development, and staging production database environments are maintained and up to date and a disaster recovery plan is in place.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems or related technical field and/or Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA) required

• Minimum Experience:

• 2+ years in Information Technology, Software Development

• 1+ years SQL, and SQL programming techniques

• 1+ years Extraction, Transformation, and Load programming skills

• 1+ years SQL Server, 2000/2005 experience

• 1+ years Microsoft programming environment, including MS Data Transformation Services (DTS)

• Experience Client interviewing and research

• Advanced relational database design and development

• Data modeling & Data migration scripting

• Technical documentation

• Knowledge and some programming in .net environment

JOB GOALS:

Prepare project plans and schedules for database-related implementation and support efforts; communicate regularly with internal technical, applications and operational staff, as appropriate, in order to ensure the database integrity, security and availability; recover corrupted data; eliminate data redundancy; use tuning tools to improve database performance; maintain physical data models from logical data models; implement and maintain physical database systems; ensure that test data (development environment) is current and functioning; perform tuning of the relational database management systems and related application databases; assist development staff for applications design and development, specifically for transaction design, data warehouse systems, client-server applications, etc; evaluate database management systems and related tool sets; monitor assigned organization operational and development projects to ensure consistency and satisfaction of database support requirements

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

• 226 days

SALARY RANGE:

• Pay Grade 14 - Salary according to experience and qualifications.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

• Until Filled

APPLICATION:

Out-of-District Applicants Must:

1. Submit a letter of interest and résumé
2. Complete or update an Online application with copies of transcript(s) and certificate(s) (be sure e-mail address is accurate)
3. Select the position applied for in the “Employment Preferences/Add Position” section on the online application

FBISD Employees Must:

1. Submit a letter of interest and résumé
2. Complete or update an Online application   (be sure e-mail address is accurate)
3. Select the position applied for in the “Employment Preferences/Add Position” section on the online application

Applications remain active for one year from date of submittal

Ft. Bend Independent School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Send letter of interest and résumé:
FBISD Human Resources
16431 Lexington Blvd.
Sugar Land, TX 77479

Posted January 4, 2007