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Job Description:

Organization: Systems Integration and Technology
Location: Negotiable


If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture’s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.


The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Business Consulting, Business & Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description:
Technology Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business. Technology Infrastructure professionals focus on the technology foundation required to enable enterprise/agency-wide applications such as e-mail, voice mail, messaging, security, and database software (for functionally specific applications). These individuals have skills in hardware, common carrier bandwidth, onsite communications equipment, storage, and related software.

The Oracle DBA Consultant role falls within our Data Center Technology practice.


Key Responsibilities:
- Define standards for the operating system (OS) and Oracle environment
- Install Oracle software for OS and PC environments
- Create new databases and table spaces
- Install and manage SQL*Net configuration for UNIX and PC environments
- Perform release upgrades for existing databases
- Define and implement backup and recovery strategies in line with the needs of each client/project
- Monitor system resource usage (disk, memory, CPU, IO) in conjunction with System Administrators group
- For production as well as development and QA, monitor and tune SGA, etc.
- System programming (Shell and SQL) to automate database backup, monitoring and other DBA functions
- Define standards/guidelines for using roles, DB links, etc. in conjunction with project DBAs
- Provide technical support during development process
- Physical database design and layout – log files, datafiles, rollback segments, and tablespaces
- Create project user accounts, grant appropriate privileges
- Physical DBAs are responsible for the OS and Oracle environment, database backup & restore, database performance diagnostics and tuning for ALL databases. They work closely with the system admin group concerning system resource usage and allocation, system backups, and system performance.
- 100% travel requirement

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
- Associates Degree
- At least 1 year of hands on experience with Oracle


Preferred Skills:
- Bachelors Degree
- Experience with Oracle 8i/9i/10g and 11i
- Experience installing Oracle database software.
- Experience creating an Oracle database.
- Basic DBA skills (i.e. SQL, security, tables/indexes, PL/SQL stored programs)
- Familiarity with Oracle Architecture (memory structures like SGA and Shared Pool, processes, data files).
- Knowledge of backup and recovery options (i.e. RMAN, cold/hot backups, export/import of data).
- Experience with SQL performance tuning (trace files, TKPROF, explain plans, use of indexes).
- Knowledge of database tuning techniques (sizing memory structures, memory/latch contention, I/O contention)
- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Desire to work in an information systems environment
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.


Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.


Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Accenture:

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. With many of the word’s leading companies as our clients—including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world—every project we undertake is helping shape the future of business, government and society.

Another reason to join Accenture is because our people enjoy working here. Join Accenture and you will work in a dynamic environment, teaming with motivated people that make ideas happen. We have an extremely diverse workforce, but are united by a common culture. We promote an inclusive, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where people use teamwork, respect and trust to achieve goals.

You’ll find the flexibility that helps you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. And you’ll have access to a renowned training program throughout your career to support your career development and stay at the top of your game. We offer around 80 more training hours than our competitors—in 2006 alone we invested nearly $700 million in training and provided an average of 75 hours of training per person.

With 152,000 employees in 49 countries, we bring together the unique experiences and perspectives of a diverse workforce to help clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their business, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
The sheer scale of our technology capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organizations, so we build systems that operate across several countries and even continents—creating the digital infrastructure of business today. We know better than most how to mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to deliver innovation and results that create high-performance businesses.

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