Senior Lead Database Administrator

Location: Prague, Praha CZ

Ready for the adventure of your career? Join Teradata Global Delivery Centre (GDC) in Prague, Czech Republic and start your career as Senior Lead Database Administrator. The Managed Services department of the GDC in Prague is providing its services to the largest and most sophisticated data warehouse (DWH) projects across EU.

We are looking for motivated and skilled Senior Database Administrators to perform global customer support in multiple areas, database and system administration, providing SQL optimization, performance tuning of systems and monitoring of daily ETL jobs. The candidate needs to understand the customer complexities and  requirements and be able to organize and successfully lead a DBA team.

As Teradata Senior Lead Database Administrator, you will:

• Perform the supervision of the ecosystems running at the customer side
• Advanced DBA related tasks in key areas of Database and OS Administration, Backup, Archive & Restore Management, Performance Management & Reporting for customers
• Support and monitor ETL jobs
• Incident handling and troubleshooting, with contact with the global support organization
• Promote the teradata technology usage within customers

What you need to be successful in this role:

• Ability to work in challenging environments and understand the customer expectations/requirements
• Ability to lead a team and successfully provide results

• Significant Experience with databases and SQL (e.g. Teradata, Oracle) 
• Linux/UNIX administration and shell scripting knowledge
• Willingness to relocate and work from Prague (Czech Republic) [Mandatory]
• Proficient English language plus any other european language will be a plus
• At least 7years of experience in similar roles 

Ideal candidates have these additional skills:

• Understanding of ecosystems architecture and procedures
• Understanding of big customers 
• Understanding of BC solutions 
• Skills with monitoring, error handling and issue tracking fulfilling the SLAs

What we offer: 

• World-class technical training within Teradata University
• Every new hire gets a detailed training plan containing on-site training about Teradata Vantage architecture
• 25 days of holiday a year, 3 sick days and various other time off to enjoy special occasions
• Flexibility of working from home and from our fully equipped office in the 24^th floor of the second tallest building in Prague
• Private medical care
• Meal vouchers
• Company’s contribution for the Pension fund
• Life insurance
• Company’s assistance in case of sickness (25% of your gross base salary) in addition to local regulations
• Employee referral program (4,000$ USD)
• Relocation bonus (if coming to Prague from abroad)
• Sports and activities membership program
• Language courses for employees
• Employee stock purchase program
• Contribution of 300$ USD for a mobile phone of your choice (every 2 years)