Experian Hiring for Database Administrator at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

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Company Description

Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. We gather, analyze and process data in ways others can’t. We help individuals take financial control and access financial services, businesses make smarter decision and thrive, lenders lend more responsibly, and organizations prevent identity fraud and crime. For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 20,600 people in 43 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.

Job Description

As a key aide to both the IT Infrastructure and Development teams:
Support the product roadmap for software maintenance and enhancement such that the quality of software deliverables maintains excellent customer relationships and increases the customer base
Lead the team to design, implement, and maintain systems critical to our business functions
Coordinate team efforts to plan and manage capacity of database management systems, create standards and procedures, and ensure technical documentation is maintained
Participate in the on-call support rotation of DB2 environments on Unix systems; troubleshoot database problems and implement corrective measures as required; and again, ensure this technical documentation is also maintained.
Ensure the team performs review and technical walk-throughs of complex changes
Provide guidance to the team members to help build their confidence and skills
Represent the team in regional (APAC) system planning meetings with business leads, helping to gain and maintain confidence in our team and teams we collaborate with
Last, but not least, help to plan, and oversee migration of on-prem databases to the cloud.

Major Job Functions:
Responsibilities:
Collaborate and communicate with all levels of technical management
Translate business requirements and logical designs into working physical database designs working with Global Development teams.
Participate in database design discussions with both software developers and DBAs
Support environments utilizing DB2LUW (V11.5) both on-prem and in the cloud
Install database software and patches, perform upgrades, manage utilities, monitor database performance and recommend enhancements; perform trouble shooting, perform tablespace management, and handle user requests
Create high availability environments using HADR, Q-Replication, Attunity, Purescale, or other software.
Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises and update related documentation
Support database systems 24x7x365 on a rotation basis with other team members
Assist in the review and audit of database security policies and work closely with the security and auditing teams (internal and external as required).
Ensure alignment of procedures, design, and implementations with current IT standards and controls
Open and coordinate service requests with IBM Support
Collaborate with the team to automate routine tasks;
Perform change control requests (code deployments) when approved
Additional responsibilities may include support of MongoDB, Attunity and other software; and other work as assigned.

Teamwork
Work as part of a team to achieve the departmental standards.
Work with other departments and divisions within the organization to identify any process improvements and improve standards, efficiency and profitability.
Participate in DBA Team meetings for knowledge sharing and team collaboration of activities and projects

Qualifications

Typically requires a bachelor’s degree (in Computer Science or related field) or equivalent, and 10-15 years of related experience.
Strong knowledge supporting High availability architecture with relevant experience V11.1 and V11.5
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment are required
Experience of managing multiple RDBMS on large systems
Experience on large DB2LUW partitioned (DPF) and HADR database implementations; Purescale is a plus
Experience in review of Access Plans to explain and make recommendations
Experience in monitoring and tuning database environments;DB2 databases (V11.1, V11.5), MongoDB (a plus), Attunity (a plus), pureScale (a plus)
Experience in data movement and utilities: exports, imports, loads, reorgs, runstats, and other OpsApplication dba activities
Strong skills in system activities such as applying fixpacks and managing DB2 upgrade activities
Strong skills in backup and recovery procedures.
Knowledge of federated databases

Adaptability:
Ability to adapt to multi-lingual and multicultural environment, additional language skills are a bonus.
Ability to learn.

Ability to handle conflicting priorities

Receptive to change.
Ability to communicate with business users at all levels
Analytical skills
Self-motivated and pro-active
Experience of working in high pressure results oriented organization

Additional Information

Identifying who has access to the database
Helping build the structure and design of the database
Implementing security measures for the data
Restoring lost data
Building test versions and testing for bugs
Merging databases when necessary
Updating systems when necessary and creating data backups
Continually monitoring database systems – DB, DR, CRP

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