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Children and Families, Department of

DB2 Database Administrator – Re-Announcement

Job Announcement Code(s): 16-02980

County(ies):
Dane

Classification Title : / JAC :
Job Working Title :
IS DATA SERVICES CONSULTANT/ADMIN 16-02980

DB2 Database Administrator

Type of Employment :
Full Time (40 hrs/week)

Salary :
The starting salary is between $67,891-$103,293annually, depending on qualifications, plus excellent benefits. The pay schedule/range is 07-32.

Special Qualifications :
Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the United States (i.e., a citizen or national of the U.S., a lawful permanent resident, an alien authorized to work in the U.S. without DCF sponsorship) at the time of application.

Contact :
Jennifer Wilkie, Human Resources Spec – Senior, 608-422-6425, Jennifer.Wilkie@wisconsin.gov

Bargaining Unit :
Non-Represented

Area of Competition :
Open

Deadline to Apply :
5/2/2017

The previous publication date was 1/21/17 . The previous deadline date was 2/11/17. Applicants who previously applied are ineligible to apply again.

Assessment Information :
13304 –

028

IS DATA SERVICES CONSULTANT/ADMIN

Preview Assessment

The Wisconsin, Department of Children and Families is currently looking to fill a KIDS DBA position, in the Division of Management Services, BITS, KIDS Section.

Top 5 Reasons to Work for the Department of Children and Families:

An IT department committed to incorporating the latest technologies and software development practices

The intrinsic reward associated with serving the children and families of Wisconsin

Extensive benefits as a State of Wisconsin employee

Team-oriented atmosphere

Excellent work/life balance

We are located in downtown Madison, near the state capitol, the Madison Metro route and the Capital City bike path. We offer amazing benefits such as a casual office atmosphere, ample vacation time, excellent health benefits, and an exceptional employee assistance program that offers a variety of programs and tools to help promote an employee’s wellness and health. If you live outside of the Madison area, there are ride sharing/van pool options available. Check out www.doa.state.wi.us “vanpools” for more information.

DCF is committed to the important work of helping children, youth and families become safer, more secure and progress down the road to true independence. For more information about DCF, visit our website at http://dcf.wi.gov/ . If you have experience establishing and administering DB2 database policies, administering data models, logical data designs and multiple database instances in a large, COBOL, CICS, and DB2 environment, come see why DCF is such a great place to work!

Position Summary :
Under broad policy guidance and minimal supervision, this position is considered one of the agency’s chief technical experts in this classification. The most advanced level of work, which requires application of the highest level of theoretical and practical knowledge, is applied by this position. For KIDS , a large, multi‑organization project within the Department of Children and Families, this position provides guidance and consultation on IS technical issues specific to database administration, including establishing technical database policies, setting priorities, and determining parameters and standards.

This position interacts with IS staff within DCF and in other agencies to manage shared data, and interacts with DET database experts to consult on high-level technical database software matters, which requires strong written and oral communication skills and sound organizational skills. This position sets policy and standards for database design and administers the logical models and over 300 database tables and multiple database instances for KIDS. Additional duties of this position include 24-hour on-call support, direction of other KIDS database support staff, consultation with applications staff on logical and physical database design, quality assurance relative to agency standards for new database systems, training and assignment of tasks to other database support staff, implementation and maintenance of database objects and files needed by database applications, problem resolution for database software, and recommendations to management relative to procurement of new database-related software and major upgrades to current software.

Special Notes :
Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the United States (i.e., a citizen or national of the U.S., a lawful permanent resident, an alien authorized to work in the U.S. without DCF sponsorship). The Department of Children and Families does not sponsor visas, either at time of hire or at any later time.

Due to the nature of the position, all applicants who may be appointed may be required to allow DCF to conduct a background check to determine whether the circumstances of any conviction may be related to the job being filled.

Qualifications :
Please address the following in your cover letter and resume:
Minimally Qualified Applicants will have:
Experience establishing and administering DB2 database policies, procedures and standards, including those for database backup and recovery.

Experience providing direction and assign tasks to other database support staff, and consulting with applications staff on logical and physical design and quality assurance.

Experience consulting with and providing expert direction to IS programming staff on requested changes and/or additions to DB2 database definitions and multiple database instances.

Experience administering data models, logical data designs and multiple database instances in a large, COBOL, CICS, and DB2 environment.

Well qualified applicants will have :
Experience providing expert technical direction to programmer/analysts in the design, development and implementation of application systems using server-based database software.

Experience providing guidance and consultation on IS technical Issues specific to database administration.

Experience establishing and administering standards and procedures for ongoing monitoring of database resource utilization, storage usage and effective usage of the database within production jobstreams. For a complete copy of the position description, click here

The starting salary is between $67,891-$103,293annually, depending on qualifications, plus excellent benefits. The pay schedule/range is 07-32.