What You'll Do

  • Provide technical support to junior staff or clients.
  • Set up database clusters, backup, or recovery processes.
  • Identify, evaluate and recommend hardware or software technologies to achieve desired database performance.
  • Plan and install upgrades of database management system software to enhance database performance.
  • Identify and correct deviations from database development standards.
  • Document and communicate database schemas, using accepted notations.
  • Develop or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.
  • Develop load-balancing processes to eliminate down time for backup processes.
  • Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures.
  • Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability.

Essential Skills

Reading Comprehension 3.88/5
Critical Thinking 3.88/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.88/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.88/5
Systems Analysis 3.75/5
Active Listening 3.5/5
Speaking 3.5/5
Programming 3.38/5
Active Learning 3.25/5
Systems Evaluation 3.25/5
Writing 3.12/5
Monitoring 3.12/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to sense whether the day to day rhythm and focus of this path line up with what energizes you.

Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.

Common styles

Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Achievement/Effort, Initiative, Cooperation

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.88/5
Written Comprehension 3.88/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.88/5
Oral Expression 3.75/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.75/5
Inductive Reasoning 3.75/5
Information Ordering 3.75/5
Near Vision 3.62/5

Technologies & Tools

3M Post-it App Ab Initio Access management software Acronis Recovery Expert Adeptia ETL Suite ADO.NET Adobe Acrobat Adobe Dreamweaver Advanced business application programming ABAP AJAX Altova MapForce Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Amazon Kinesis Amazon Redshift Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation Amazon Web Services AWS software Ansible software Apache Ant

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Analytical Thinking (High importance: 4.48/5)
  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.33/5)
  • Achievement/Effort (High importance: 4.0/5)
  • Initiative (High importance: 3.95/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 3.9/5)

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How to Become One

Most employers require a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Some positions may also require experience through internships, co-ops, or entry-level work to strengthen your candidacy.

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