Job Description

*D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S.,*was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at_ more information.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for an Database Administrator III . The right candidate willbe responsible to keep the database up and running smoothly 24/7. Responsible to provide a seamless flow of information throughout the company, considering both backend data structure and frontend accessibility for end-users.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Ownership of design, documentation, implementation and continuous maintenance of database policies and procedures
• Analyze key performance indicators and recommend improvements
• Oversee and perform the daily monitoring and analysis of databases and database servers to ensure the continuance of operations
• Manage and perform database performance analysis and tuning to ensure optimal system performance. Major areas of support in this area will include sizing, throughput, scalability, and dependability
• Ensure the security of databases
• Perform and oversee regular backups of all databases and database servers
• Perform and guide restorations of backups in case of system failure or data loss
• Review and oversee all changes to existing production databases to ensure that such changes do not negatively impact database performance or reliability
• Work with software developers to design and implement new database schemas, stored procedures, user defined functions, data transformation service packages, scheduled jobs, etc.
• Oversee and promote database changes through software development lifecycle process
• Ensure the pre-defined development standards for naming conventions, user interface, etc. are followed
• Conducts all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
• Work with users to determine requirements and design for systems
• Estimate time and materials needed to create new or modify existing databases
• Manage the process to migrate data from existing databases to new databases or between database environments
• Ability to participate in on call rotation
• Ability to travel overnight
• Fully in office Monday- Friday

Education and/or Experience

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Seven to ten years of experience as a Production SQL Server DBA and Database Architect for very large databases (over 1TB of data in a single database)
• Seven to ten years of T-SQL experience
• Strong skills in Windows PowerShell or similar scripting language
• Superb troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Problem-solving and critical thinking
• Ability to multi-task and provide attention to detail
• Proficiency with MS Office andemail

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, and Data Movement Processes (SnowFlake, dbt Labs, Fivetran)
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) is preferred

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

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Job: * Information Technology

Organization: * Corporate

Title: Database Administrator III

Location: TX-Arlington

Requisition ID: 2600959

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