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Senior Database Administrator - Oracle EBS

Job ID R0000027414 Durham, North Carolina

Parexel is looking for changemakers who are driven by curiosity, passion, and optimism. Come join us in keeping the Patient at the Heart of Everything We do.

Job Title:

Senior Database Administrator – Oracle EBS

Job Introduction:

At Parexel, we are a leading Clinical Research Organization company specializing in delivering life-changing medicines to patients. We are currently seeking a Senior Database Administrator – Oracle EBS to uphold our high standards of production uptime and service availability. This role involves managing backup, recovery, refresh, performance tuning, and comprehensive data structure security.

Who we are looking for:

Reliable individuals with extensive hands-on experience in supporting Oracle RDBMS across diverse platforms. Proven track record with various enterprise RDBMS vendors. In-depth knowledge of core Oracle databases (up to 23ai) and Oracle EBS database administration (through 12.2.4) is essential. That possess exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and a strong client-focused approach to work.

What you’ll do:

  • Design, install, maintain and control the organization's production and non-production databases.
  • Provide on-call support (EST hours) for production environments.
  • Support various activities including database maintenance, application releases, disaster recovery, database upgrades, and patching.
  • Play a key role in ensuring the availability, performance and security of the databases.
  • Collaborate on the development of technical and security standards with other database administrators and technical resources.

Technical Skills:

Proficiency in more than one RDBMS and OS technology, excellent knowledge of core Oracle databases required (up through 23ai), and Oracle EBS database administration through 12.2.4 required, including concurrent processing, system administration, start up and shut down, RAC, OEM in the EBS space, support of printing including XML, managing of schema statistics, identification of poorly performing queries, performance tuning, RAC refreshes. Proficient knowledge to manage and monitor WebLogic Server, SOA Suite and Vertex. Comfort with Linux and windows – able to login to various environments, start/stop/monitor services in these environments – determine status or issues in these environments. Bachelor’s degree or other relevant qualification/experience required. OCI Certification is preferred.

Why join us:

Opportunity to work on innovative projects at the forefront of the industry.

Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values your expertise.

Professional advancement and development opportunities.

Work life balance and flexible working hours.

Parexel US Benefits:

  • Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Vacation/Holiday/Sick Time
  • Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts
  • Work/Life Balance
  • 401(k) with Company match
  • Pet Insurance

Full list of benefits available here: https://www.parexel.com/us-benefits

About Parexel International:

At Parexel we embrace flexibility and understand that in today’s fast-paced world, employees need to balance their careers with their personal lives. Come join us where learning is constant, you’re exposed to a world of experiences and open doors.  Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy, and we're committed to making a difference.

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