• Provides technical direction for DBMS standards such as software delivery, patch policies, database tuning, performance recommendations, and application design recommendations. • Designs, recommends, and implements backup and recovery policies and procedures. • Designs business continuity architecture and ensures it meets the needs of the business. • Review new & revised business continuity process and design. • Provides suggestions and standards for documentation that will lead to better efficiencies and information sharing within the team or across the organization. • Provides technical recommendations for advanced database components (replication, security, clustering, and partitioning). • Researches and analyzes available DBMS functionality and makes suggestions for implementation. • Design standard work-plans; push for automation/efficiency; drives for compliancy to standards. • Work as part of a team and provide 24x7 support when required; Identify and resolve complex database in a timely manner. • Provides technical leadership on problem calls; provides focus and drive for resolution and root cause analysis. • Opens & works tickets with DBMS vendors; helps other team members to drive vendors to resolution. • Identifies global problems and drives to correct across the ecosystem. • Provides options for resolution and drives to automate a solution. • Makes design recommendations for daily operational checks, audits, and event management. • Drives toward automation and standardization. • Provides standards for shell scripting and ensures scripts are written to standard. • Writes complex shell scripting and reusable components. • Makes suggestions for standards across the enterprise, including automation & efficiencies. • Mentors & trains junior team members. • Provides technical leadership for the DBA team. • Works with cross-functional teams on designing high-performance database solutions for the value stream and platforms. • Ability to understand all system and application level concepts/components for a given value stream.