Principle Data Engineer

  • Location: Riverwoods, Illinois
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #101536

SENIOR ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Long term contract 

Technical Skills

  • Expert-level Oracle Database 5-7 years Administration knowledge and enterprise-level DBA leadership
  • Advanced experience with RAC, DataGuard, GoldenGate, and performance tuning
  • Design and execution of large-scale backup, recovery, patching, and upgrade strategies
  • Deep expertise in performance optimization, database architecture, and high-volume workloads
  • Strategic use of OEM, automation, onitoring, compliance, and operational efficiency
  • Security, audit, compliance, and risk management expertise (SOX, PCI)
  • Experience with AWS products/services, AWS RDS, cloud migrations, and decommission planning

Soft Skills

  • Technical leader and communicator across database management domain and advisor across data management, infrastructure, and security
  • Mentors and upskills DBAs;
  • Ability influence database architecture, short- or long-term operational strategy
  • Acts as escalation point for high-severity incidents, risks, vulnerabilities etc.
  • Implement process standardization, best practices, and process improvement across the DBA team
  • Strong risk awareness and alignment with Discover’s change control frameworks

Non-Exempt

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