Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is seeking a highly skilled and analytical Database Administrator. When you join SCAG, you can expect a culture where collaboration and team work is fostered. SCAG's workforce is highly educated, passionate, and committed to innovation that improves the quality of life for all Southern Californians. SCAG supports a work environment that promotes achievements while maintaining work/life balance. 

The Database Administrator works as an essential contributor to SCAG's IT team. Reporting to the Manager of Application Development & Support, the Database Administrator is responsible for supporting and maintaining application, GIS, and reporting databases. This position performs critical database maintenance, system administration, and data analysis activities. The Database Administrator will work closely with end-users, application development teams, and independently to facilitate the organization's use of databases across multiple applications.

SCAG's Application Development and Support team is responsible for many of SCAG's core technology systems and involved in multiple SCAG initiatives. The team develops, manages, tests, supports, maintains, and consults on applications including region shaping metropolitan planning systems, operationally focused finance and support systems, and public facing information sharing systems. Some of the current applications and technologies used include Microsoft Great Plains (GP), WorkPlace, OnBase, Microsoft CRM, custom Inter-Government Review (IGR), custom Finance Management Systems(FMS), custom Active Transportation Database (ATDB), Microsoft Dynamics 365, ESRI ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online, ServiceNow, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and Crystal Reports.

OUR LOCATION
SCAG headquarters is located in the hub of busy downtown Los Angeles, at Figueroa and 7th streets. SCAG has recently relocated to the 900 Wilshire Building, a new, multi-use hotel and office complex that features state of the art architecture and technology. The downtown area has expanded with LA Live, new restaurants, music, sports, shopping, libraries, museums and theaters. SCAG is in a culturally diverse area near Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Olvera Street and Grand Central Market. Southern California boasts near-perfect weather and close proximity to mountains, beaches and deserts, which encourages physical fitness and year-round activities.

For ease of commuting, the LA office is located across the street from the Metro Red Line 7th St. station and is easily accessible by commuter trains and buses serving surrounding areas. Metro's light rail and subway connect downtown LA to Hollywood, Universal City, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Azusa, Long Beach and many vibrant and up-and-coming neighborhoods.

WHO WE ARE: 
Founded in 1965, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is a Joint Powers Authority under California state law, established as an association of local governments and agencies that voluntarily convene as a forum to address regional issues. Under federal law, The SCAG region encompasses six counties (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura) and 191 cities in an area covering more than 38,000 square miles. The agency develops long-range regional transportation plans including sustainable communities' strategy and growth forecast components, regional transportation improvement programs, regional housing needs allocations and a portion of the South Coast Air Quality management plans. Currently, the Regional Council consists of 86 members. 

WHAT WE BELIEVE

MISSION
To foster innovative regional solutions that improve the lives of Southern Californians through inclusive collaboration, visionary planning, regional advocacy, information sharing, and promoting best practices.
 
VISION
Southern California's Catalyst for a Brighter Future.

SCAG CORE VALUES

• Be Open: Be accessible, candid, collaborative and transparent in the work we do.
• Lead by Example: Commit to integrity and equity in working to meet the diverse needs of all people and communities in our region.
• Make an Impact: In all endeavors, effect positive and sustained outcomes that make our region thrive.
• Be Courageous: Have confidence that taking deliberate, bold and purposeful risks can yield new and valuable benefits. 

• Create and maintain enterprise databases and system documentation in a client/server environment. 
• Design and document schemas for application databases, operational data stores, and data warehouses. Ensure each database is used for its intended purpose. Create data structures and indexes for efficient operations.
• Support data protection and resiliency efforts by performing critical database maintenance, backup, restoration, and upgrade tasks.
• Secure databases by setting up user accounts and groups with proper levels of access.
• Monitor databases to ensure databases are up and in a healthy state by checking for potential data consistency issues and auditing data for potential problems.
• Develop SQL statements. Create and optimize queries; develop stored procedures; create views; optimize data structures; support application development efforts.
• Create, maintain, and monitor extraction, transform, and load (ETL) processes and jobs to ensure data quality and consistency.
• Provide database support by troubleshooting issues related to SQL Server, addressing assigned support and maintenance tickets, and resolving database issues as they arise.
• Participate in the physical and logical design of data/information system architecture and data file structure. 
• Provide on-going capacity analysis and planning to determine future hardware requirements and/or configuration changes.
• Maintain and enhance the agency's CMS (Communication Emergency System) and the ISD Work Request System.
• Act as backup for other Database Administrators when they are unavailable.
• Support general system administration efforts across SCAG's portfolio of applications such as Windows Server, Microsoft GP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, OnBase, ArcGIS Online. 
• Provide technical assistance to staff members throughout the agency regarding database management policies, procedures, and operations; assist with training users.

EDUCATION: Equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related field.
 
EXPERIENCE: Three years of increasingly responsible database management experience that includes designing schemas, maintaining databases, analyzing data, and SQL programming.
 
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
The ideal candidate:

• Has demonstrated experience database administration
• Has experience developing complex SQL statements
• Is quick learner with the aptitude to learn new systems
• Is an analytical thinker with a strong attention to detail
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with a steady workload
• Has strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to those without the necessary technical background