Manager Database Administration & Architecture

REEDS Jewelers is excited to post this important position to join our team.

REEDS Jewelers proudly celebrates its 78th Anniversary in 2024, and our corporate headquarters has been in Wilmington, NC, since the beginning. We're a proud family company running many retail stores from Texas, to Florida, to Pennsylvania, and everywhere in between.

Position overview:

Database administrators/architects use their analytical and organizational skills to develop and implement databases for their respective businesses. These architects must develop an understanding of what it is the business is looking for, and set up ways to store, organize, access and provision the data needed for vital day-to-day activity.

Typical Duties

• Provide development and administration support for various databases, primarily SQL server databases, in a client-server development environment including stored procedures and triggers, SQL, and index performance tuning, and database design and file storage.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) scripts and schedules using SSIS or related technology.
• Develop and implement all database indexing, maintenance, back-up, transformations, and stored procedures.
• Expose data to application in various business tiers.
• Assist software developers in implementing appropriate data access permission schemas.
• Participate in the refinement and development of user stories, assessing the impact of new development on current database implementation.
• Communicate with technical and product owner stakeholders to help them anticipate and mitigate configuration management issues.

With our strong foundation, we continue to grow and welcome talented, hard-working team members to join our dynamic company. We look forward to reviewing your application!

Requirements

Required skills and qualifications.

• Experience using database tools such as TOAD, Oracle’s SQL Developer, or MS SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS, Qlik Sense
• Knowledge of developing analytic reports and dashboards using Qlik Sense, Qlik Management Console, or other similar tools
• Excellent command of the SQL language with the ability to write and optimize complex queries.
• Experience developing code to leverage third party application exposed API as an integration framework.
• Solid knowledge of relational database architecture and concepts.

Preferred qualifications

• Current on event processing, Data API, JSON, and recent emerging data technologies
• Strong database architecture, engineering, and design skills
• Passionate about technology and delivering solutions in integrated data environments
• Excellent listening, data flow diagramming (DFD) expertise, excellent verbal communication skills.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, information technology, computer science, or data analysis, and development experience in an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database environment, are required for this position.
• Hands-on work experience in database design, architecture, development, optimization and production support for enterprise applications are strongly preferred.
• Experience designing, developing and supporting an enterprise data warehouse environment across multiple lines of business and external sources of data.

Benefits

REEDS Jewelers offers a comprehensive compensation program, merchandise discounts, 401(k), and paid time off. Full-time team members are also eligible for our benefits program including health/dental/life/LTD insurance, and more!

REEDS Jewelers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value the diversity of our team, and employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. REEDS provides a smoke and drug-free environment.