Manager, Database Solutions - Vancouver, Canada - The City of Vancouver

The City of Vancouver

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Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Requisition ID:38733

Organization

Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, Vancouver has a commitment to becoming a City of Reconciliation.

Vancouver consistently ranks as one of the world's most liveable cities and is working towards being the greenest city in the world.

Named among Canada's Top 100 Employers, BC's Top Employers, and Canada's Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver seeks colleagues who can help shape and embody our core commitments to sustainability, decolonization, equity and outstanding quality of life for all residents.

Consider joining our committed team of staff and being part of an innovative, inclusive and rewarding workplace.

Main Purpose and Function

The Manager, Database Solutions is responsible for the provision of a diverse array of data and analytics platform services including database architecture, design, development, administration, data collection, data storage, data governance, data engineering and data integration.

Provides technical leadership and guidance in the planning and development of enterprise data services and ensures the ongoing secure and effective operation of these services which are deployed on a broad range of technical platforms utilizing various tools and products.

Works with functional Technology Services (TS) resources and key business staff to identify and recommend alternatives and develop appropriate solutions to assist the business in meeting their operational requirements.

In order to perform this role the Manager, Database Solutions has access to a wide range of sensitive and business critical information.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Providing leadership and guidance to the Data Platform Services team, including hiring, assigning responsibilities, evaluating performance, coaching, mentoring, training and development, and discipline up to and including termination.
Providing leadership in database design and strategy. Implementing database design standards and best practices. Contributing to the development of an organizational shared data practices across database solutions, data enablement and analytics enablement.
Managing the effective administration, support and development of the City's databases
Maintaining effective integration between systems within the teams portfolio, as well as to other corporate systems and software as a service solutions
Ensuring the enablement of scriptgenerated metrics related to the performance and uptime of data service solutions under the team's portfolio. Identifying and implementing industry best practices in database management while creating and contributing to the CoV architecture standards and frameworks
Driving and providing input into people, process, and technology improvements around our database long term strategy leveraging cloud and other new technologies to increase efficiency and automation
Performing strategic research on toolsets and methodologies to drive the continuous improvement on database design, development, testing and management practices.
Ensures database solutions are documented in the Enterprise Architecture tool including relationships to business processes and systems.
Manages database infrastructure projects to ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards, version currency, and information security.
Works with the Director of Enterprise Data and Analytics as part of a decision making team to deal with ongoing issues and decisions required to provide synergies within the group and to evaluate priorities and plan work
Manages the team of database administrators and technical staff that conduct technical and complex activities in support of database architecture, design, development, administration, data architecture, integration, analytics and reporting e.g. Manage and optimize system performance and tuning
Maintain disaster recovery plans, and implement disaster recovery procedures
Software configuration, security management, server reliability and availability management activities for data services
Manages database infrastructure projects that support Enterprise Application Delivery
Participates in life cycle planning, ensuring that migration and consolidation opportunities, cloud solutions, technical innovations, key business events, and vendor releases and upgrades are factored into the branch portfolio and planning process, and balancing team workloads
Manages software licenses for relevant products consistent with City policies and processes
Fosters a customer serviceoriented culture and responds to issues in a timely manner
Maintains relationships with relevant vendors and consultants
Keeps current on related technologies
Other duties/responsibilities as assigned