DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR, GDI Research and Development Group
Immediate opportunity for a Project Database Administrator focusing on a corporate enterprise solution for Utilities across North America. Based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, you will leverage your knowledge and experience in leading GDI’s Enterprise IT solutions.
The successful candidate will be responsible to provide senior-level technical expertise in IT and database analysis, design, development and implementation for our commercial delivery.
Responsibilities:
Initial:
- Assist in the implementation of a corporate database that contains data on GDI data acquisition systems, aerial and terrestrial surveying projects, and customer infrastructure. This includes a mirror of the database at each GDI’s location as required by data processing activities.
- Assist in the
implementation of a system for the storage of non-lexical digital data
items such as aerial images, point clouds, and documents that are related
to objects in the database but may not be stored in the database. This
includes a full or partial mirror of these data items at each GDI location
as required by data processing activities, and tracking of physical
media that are shipped between locations for the communication of large
volumes of high density data.
Ongoing:
- Maintain the corporate production database.
- Maintain the storage of non-lexical digital data items such as aerial images, point clouds, and documents.
- Install, configure, and maintain web services software that will serve requests involving data in the corporate database and the non-lexical data store both from inside and outside GDI.
- Run, maintain, and refine the data security and disaster recovery systems for the corporate database and non-lexical data store.
- Make recommendations for hardware and communications connections modifications.
- Support GDI software developers in the development of database, web services, and web client software.
Qualifications:
General work experience and Education:
- Minimum of 5 years experience with an increasing level of responsibility in administering a enterprise-level database system managed by a relational database management system and / or GIS enterprise projects; and
- Minimum of 3 years experience in researching, selecting, installing, configuring, integrating and maintaining web services software.
- Knowledge of development methodologies over the above period of experience.
- University bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or GIS.
Special knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Database design and configuration competency that involves geographic data and enterprise database management systems with spatial extensions (e.g., Oracle with the Spatial option, PostgreSQLwith the PostGIS extension and ESRI ArcSDE).
- Knowledge of ESRI software, and experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining ArcGIS Server software.
- Familiarity with OGC Web Services standards and experience in selecting, installing, configuring, and maintaining one or more implementations of one or more of these services.
- Managing security levels, permissions and privileges at both database and web services level and monitoring any breaches.
- Have specific
familiarity with Project and Programme Management Methodologies to manage
third party development and integration projects.
Please send your detailed resume to gdiottawajobs@xxxxxxxxx
