Senior Database Administrator - Plymouth Rock Assurance

Senior Database Administrator

As a senior member of a skilled database team, you will serve an integral part in assisting with the migration, maintenance, update, and support of various database platforms including Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, AWS RDS, Redis, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, and Data Migration Service (DMS). Activities will also include cross-functional collaboration with software development, security, and data warehouse teams. Production on-call support, maintenance, and off-hour deployments is required.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a Snowflake data warehouse, and data replication from various sources and work with data warehouse team to implement ETLs
• Set up and maintain security and access control in Snowflake
• Development responsibilities include data modeling and analysis, schema design, and database object creations (tables, stored-procedures, triggers, functions, and jobs, etc.)
• Identify, assess, and evaluate technologies, products, and tools for building enterprise architecture services
• Analyze archiving approaches, propose solution(s) and assist in implementation of chosen approach
• Review and revise existing tables and indexing strategies to improve storage efficiency and access
• Responsible for performance tuning assistance on all data pull/queries and working with end-users
• Responsible for learning the data within the Data Warehouse and how Policy, Quotes, Claims and Billing are integrated
• Pro-actively identify issues and coordinate resolutions
• Assist programmers during development by responding to questions and providing guidance when necessary.
• Responsible for user direction/support on all data queries
• Analyze problems and propose, present and propagate solutions or practices to meet architectural challenges
• Participating in unit, system, user and performance testing
• User level familiarity with version control
• Installation, maintenance, and on-call support

Qualifications and Education:

• Working experience in ETL/ELT Products in development, setup, integration, and security [Active Directory/SSO etc.]; Example : Fivetran /  DBT / Informatica etc.
• Working experience in managing data warehouse, data lake, data modelling on Snowflake, AWS S3, Glue
• Working experience in setting up security and access controls in Snowflake
• 5+ years hands on database work DB2/UDB, SQL Server
• Hands on experience with AWS RDS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, and Redis databases
• An understanding of proper indexing and experience with query tuning
• Knowledge of DB2 Range Partitioning, MDC and MQT
• Knowledge of UDB/AIX utilities such as backup, reorg, runstats and rebind is required
• Knowledge of Oracle and MS SQL Server reorg, update stats
• Experience with AWS DMS
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Experience using a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
• Ability to analyze existing configuration and recommend hardware/software improvements
• Demonstrated ability to meet business needs with sound technical approaches
• Self motivated, task oriented, and capable of working independently on multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of the Property and Casualty Insurance industry is a plus
• Knowledge of replication desired

About the Company:

The Plymouth Rock Company and its affiliated group of companies write and manage over $2.0 billion in personal and commercial auto and homeowner’s insurance throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, where we have built an unparalleled reputation for service. We continuously invest in technology, our employees thrive in our empowering environment, and our customers are among the most loyal in the industry. The Plymouth Rock group of companies employs more than 2,000 people and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation holds an A.M. Best rating of “A-/Excellent”.

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