This position is for a Database Architect Consultant with 5+ years of experience.  

Provide standard, well-structured work planning which defines scope, resources, commitments, quality, risks, and acceptance criteria. 

Ensure that overall application designs remain within project scope. Work with customer business units to understand their business processes. 

Work with developers to identify direction of software. Ensure business requirements are supported by the database design. Analyze, define, and document how the applications will support functional and business requirements.  Coordinate these efforts with project managers, developers. 

Understand supporting/interfacing system applications. 

Approve the determined need for new software/hardware. Communicate and resolve application interface issues with other Lead Developers. 

Monitor and measure maintenance and development process effectiveness and database performance. 

Communicate clearly the program/application goals, operational and organizational philosophies, and policies and procedures to the junior staff Monitor database and perform tuning as needed. 

Maintain central repository and data dictionary. 

Responsible for physical data design and storage requirements.  

Responsible for designing appropriate role-based security and referential integrity.  

Works with system administrators to ensure proper backup, recovery, migration and conversion procedures are in place.    

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.