
Senior Database Administrator
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The Senior Database Engineer designs and develops secure, reliable database management systems and technical platforms, and builds operational processes that support production and application development. The role collaborates with developers, analysts, and other stakeholders to maintain database systems, translate business requirements into database specifications, and support data architecture, capacity planning, storage, and recovery strategies. It reports to the Cleveland office and is not remote or hybrid.
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ABOUT THE ROLE: - The Senior Database Engineer role designs and develops robust and reliable database management systems that are secure, reliable, and meet the organization's needs. They will develop technical platforms using modern tooling, build systems and processes for operations and maintenance that facilitate production needs and speed application development. By doing so, they bring significant value to the organization by ensuring that business operations run smoothly and efficiently, and change can be efficiently performed and managed. The incumbent works collaboratively with cross-functional teams that include developers, data analysts, data scientists, business analysts, and other relevant stakeholders within the organization. WHAT THE ROLE WILL DO: - Design and develop database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables. - Patch and maintain database systems for optimal security and supportability - Document and communicate database designs to relevant stakeholders and analyze the impact of the data architecture - Code complex programs and develop logical processes on technical platforms. - Participate in quality assurance by developing and testing database code in client server environments. - Adapt business requirements and develop data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for applications. - Develop an understanding of the organization's data and storage mechanisms and assist with capacity planning. - Determine appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization. - Determine how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model. - Work with stakeholder to define the database Disaster Recover plan, database back-up, recovery and archiving strategy This role is not remote/ hybrid. This role will report to our office in Cleveland, OH. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. TheCompany therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. Must be eighteen years or older Education - Required - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or Information Systems or in lieu of a degree, at least 7 years of experience in the field of database engineering and administration Skills and Experience - 4-6 years of experience in database engineering and administration - Knowledge and experience with database design, implementation, documentation, and management - In-depth understanding of database management systems and data structures - Experience translating business data needs into technical language - Ability to deal with large pool of data often unstructured coming from disparate sources - Experience with Oracle relational databases - Experience with query and coding languages [such as SQL, PL/SQL, Python] - Knowledge and experience in database performance tuning, backup and recovery strategies, and data security practices Preferred Experience with Oracle 19C and autonomous databases including single-instances, RAC, and DataGuard.
How this job compares
Set against the 457 open Database Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$130–217K/yr339 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 13 open Database Engineer jobs in Ohio and 457 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Database Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 401 postings).
- Education
- 149 of the 457 open Database Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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