Database Administrator (PostgreSQL & DynamoDB)
Posted 1 day ago by Tri-Force Consulting Services Inc
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The role of Data Engineer / Database Administrator focuses on managing, optimizing, and enhancing database systems, specifically PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, to support critical data operations. The position requires ensuring database performance, integrity, and scalability while facilitating efficient reporting and data access. The ideal candidate should possess experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, alongside strong problem-solving skills and a solid understanding of data architecture. This role is essential for enabling data integration and business intelligence across platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB database environments
- Design, implement, and manage database schema changes, field updates, and structural enhancements
- Optimize database performance, query efficiency, and system scalability
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, and reliability across all database systems
- Support data extraction, transformation, and reporting processes, including integration with tools like Power BI
- Develop and maintain database documentation, including data dictionaries and change logs
- Enable REST-based data access and support structured reporting services
- Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely resolution to ensure system stability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data integration and business intelligence needs
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
- Strong understanding of ETL processes, data pipelines, and reporting frameworks
- Familiarity with cloud-based database environments and data services
- Experience supporting reporting tools such as Power BI or similar platforms
- Knowledge of data governance, auditability, and data quality best practices
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
Key Skills:
- Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Understanding of data architecture and reporting systems
- Knowledge of ETL processes and data pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments
- Experience with reporting tools like Power BI
- Strong analytical and communication skills
Salary (Rate): £56,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Data Engineer / Database Administrator (PostgreSQL & DynamoDB)
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description
- We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer / Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and enhance database systems supporting critical data operations. This role is responsible for ensuring database performance, integrity, and scalability while enabling efficient reporting, integration, and data access across platforms.
- The ideal candidate will have experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases, strong problem-solving skills, and a solid understanding of data architecture, reporting systems, and cloud-based environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB database environments
- Design, implement, and manage database schema changes, field updates, and structural enhancements
- Optimize database performance, query efficiency, and system scalability
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, and reliability across all database systems
- Support data extraction, transformation, and reporting processes, including integration with tools like Power BI
- Develop and maintain database documentation, including data dictionaries and change logs
- Enable REST-based data access and support structured reporting services
- Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely resolution to ensure system stability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data integration and business intelligence needs
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
- Strong understanding of ETL processes, data pipelines, and reporting frameworks
- Familiarity with cloud-based database environments and data services
- Experience supporting reporting tools such as Power BI or similar platforms
- Knowledge of data governance, auditability, and data quality best practices
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
If you are: bright, motivated, skilled, a difference-maker, able to get things done, work with minimum direction, enthusiastic, a thinker, able to juggle and multi-task, communicate effectively, and lead, then we would like to hear from you. We need exceptionally capable people for this role for our client, so get back to us and tell us why
you think you are a fit.
About Us:
Since 2000, Tri-Force Consulting Services () has been an MBE/SDB certified IT Consulting firm in the Philadelphia region. Tri-Force specializes in IT staffing, software development (web and mobile apps), systems integration, data analytics, system automation, cybersecurity, and cloud technology solutions for government and commercial clients. Tri-Force works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity, increasing efficiencies through automation, and lowering costs. Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing core values: integrity, diligence, and technological excellence. Tri-Force is a six-time winner among the fastest-growing companies in Philadelphia and a four-time winner on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing companies.