Teradata DBA - Rocky Hill, CT or Eden Prairie, MN

• Provide database administration for mission-critical custom and packaged database software


• Design storage strategies around backup and recovery for complex database environments, physical structures, and specialized database applications/systems


• Uphold enterprise policy guidelines and recommend new/ improved guidelines


• Partner with project teams and interact with customers to find solutions for projects and operational issues for existing and proposed databases


• Act as a liaison serving as primary point of contact between application business segments and database administrators


• Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to perform in all of the basic database management skills of database administration, Web connectivity, physical structure, overall architecture, and database analysis


• Provide standardization and consistency across environments


• Ensure a stable and secure database environment


• Implement and monitor database functionality to ensure stable environments


• Identify and initiate resolutions to user problems and concerns associated with database server equipment (hardware and software)


• Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them


• Serve as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues


• Solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions


• Perform complex conceptual analyses


• Review work performed by others and provides recommendations for improvement


• Forecast and plan resource requirements


• Review the work of others


• Develop innovative approaches


• Serve as Subject Matter Expert


• Serve as a leader/mentor

Position will office from Rocky Hill, CT or Eden Prairie, MN, but if currently an employee or recently past employee of UnitedHealth Group - telecommuting options may be availalbe.

• 2+ years of Teradata DBA experience


• Unix experience


• Demonstrated complex analytical problem solving skills


• Ability to work multiple projects simultaneously


• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Data modeling tools experience


• Erwin experience


• Unix Shell Scripting experience


• Bteq experience


• Experience with multiload


• Experience with fastload


• Experience with fastexport


• Experience with Tpump


• TPT experience


• TD explain utility experience


• Experience with visual explain


• TSET experience


• TD Index Wizard experience


• TD Statistics Wizard experience


• ViewPoint experience


• SQL Assistant experience

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM
 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law."

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job keywords: Teradata DBA, database administration, IT, data, Rocky Hill, CT, Eden Prairie, MN, Connecticut, Minnesota