Senior MSSQL Database Admin

Behind every great on-line eCommerce site and technology service is an equally great database.  These databases provide mission critical data processing services and it takes highly skilled DBA’s to build and maintain these systems.  To meet the challenges of our fast growing business products and services lines, we need to grow our DBA team.  We’re looking for exceptional DBA’s who are interested in using the latest database technologies to deliver industry leading systems, with results that go directly to the bottom line.  

Thomson Reuters (TR) is the world’s largest international multimedia company.  With approximately 50,000 employees, TR has more than 300 offices in 93 countries.  The technology organization within TR is a centralized unit providing shared software and services to TR business units across the globe.   

We are looking to add a Senior Database Engineer to our SQL Support database team.  This global team interacts directly with key technical groups, collaborating to implement change and provide support for major databases systems that deliver data to the critical, revenue generating applications that drive the TR business.  These systems rely upon MS SQL and Sybase database software running on versions of Windows operating systems.  

About the role:

• Strong quantitative, analytical, communication and verbal skills with a strong customer service focus  

• Ability to problem solve in high pressure situations  

• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently toward assigned goals  

• Preferable 2+ years experience with  batch scripting  

• Preferable 2+ years in a development or support organization supporting large applications  

What’s in it For You? 

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: 

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.  

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. 

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. 

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking. 

• Social Impact: Nine employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact. 

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency.  Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.  

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