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Principle Data Engineer
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This role is for a Principal Data Engineer with a long-term contract, offering a pay rate of "unknown." Key skills include expert-level Oracle Database administration, RAC, DataGuard, AWS services, and strong leadership. Experience in security compliance (SOX, PCI) is required.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
March 10, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Riverwoods, IL
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Dataguard #Alation #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Leadership #Cloud #AWS RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Compliance #PCI (Payment Card Industry) #Migration #Oracle #Scala #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Strategy #Data Engineering #Database Management #Database Architecture #Data Management #Security #DBA (Database Administrator) #Automation
Role description
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
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
