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Job Description

Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry through our three companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, Sabre Holdings has approximately 9,000 employees in more than 55 countries. Our teams around the world work together to support travelers, travel agents, corporations, government agencies and travel suppliers. Our team members are people who take initiative, are resourceful and innovative, and are passionate about what they do. In return for their hard work and dedication, Sabre Holdings provides our employees with countless learning and growth opportunities, a healthy work-life balance and a fun, yet productive, work environment.
 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
 

• Under general direction, plans complex computerized databases, including base definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements, operational guidelines and protection.
• Ensures accuracy and completeness of data in master files and various support tools, such as base dictionaries.
• Establishes and maintains security and integrity controls.
• Formulates and monitors policies, procedures and standards relating to database management.
• Proposes and implements enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating complex databases.
• Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures; resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways.
• Writes and produces standardized and complex customized or ad hoc reports.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Interacts with senior internal and external personnel.
• Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures; resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways.
• This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.

Job Requirements

EDUCATION: Bachelor degree or equivalent;
 
US citizenship is a plus;   Ability to get Public Trust security clearance is plus
 
EXPERIENCE:
 
Oracle 9 and 10 experience.
Oracle CLI knowledge required.
Knowledge and experience with extended Oracle RDBMS support features - such as RMAN, OEM or APEX (application express env).
Good troubleshooting skills within and outside database environment.
Good knowledge of SQL/SQL*Plus and strong understanding of PL/SQL and stored procedures/pkgs.
UNIX scripting needed. Solaris and/or Linux;
May require off hours / on call support for major releases.
Backup & Recovery, Monitoring, Upgrades, Migrations, Patching, Log file analysis,  Troubleshooting;
Knowledge of Oracle parameters and interaction w/ UNIX OS.
Good grasp of designing and maintaining flexible, adaptable and scalable solutions.
Documentation skills for System Architecture & Design.
 
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Database Design: Working knowledge of security, system monitoring, tuning, physical database maintenance, back-up recover procedures, upgrades, logical and physical design of database. Database Management: Working knowledge of database security, system monitoring, tuning, physical database maintenance, back-up and recovery procedures and upgrades. Documentation: Enters, transcribes, records, stores or maintains information in written or electronic form . Operations Analysis: Analyzes needs and product requirements to create a design. Test Engineering: Creates, executes, and documents the tests necessary to assure that an application or technical environment meets user functional and performance requirements. May also included automation test tools .