Job roles related to Database Management System…

Tharushi Chamalsha
6 min readOct 20, 2020

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Database Managements System or DBMS is used to control the databases. There are several kind of job roles which are related to controlling the databases. You will be able to take a brief idea about those job roles by reading this article.

Data Administrator

Who are they?

Basically data administrators store and organize data such as financial information and customer records using a specific software. They are the people who make sure that data are available to relevant users and secured from unauthorized access.

What are their Duties?

  • Ensure that organizational data are secure
  • Database backup and recovery
  • Maintaining and merging old databases to new ones.
  • Maintaining the integrity and performance of company databases.
  • Supervision of modifications to any existing database software to meet the needs of their employer.
  • Write and deploy SQL patches
  • Upgrade and improve application schema and data upgrades
  • Process work accurately and in a timely manner
  • Pay attention to detail at all times

What are the skills needed?

  • Analytical skills: DB administrators get information from various sources. So he/she should have a good skill in monitoring the database performance and evaluate the complexity of information.
  • Communication skills: Most DBAs have to work under teams. There are managers, developers, and workers. So they should communicate well with every person.
  • Detail oriented: This is the most important thing. DBAs should consider every small detail When working with databases. A simple mistake can lead to huge losses and problem. So every dba must have a sharp eye and mind.
  • Problem solving skill: Sometimes problems arise in the systems. Then they should be able to troubleshoot them and resolve the problem.

Salary

Their annual income is between $51,000 — $143,000. The median of annual income is $93,000.

Database designer

Who are they?

Database designers are the people who design, test an implement the database using their knowledge of Business process modeling, query languages, system theories, SDLC, web programming etc. The database designer is responsible for defining the detailed database design, including tables, indexes, views, constraints, triggers, stored procedures, and other database-specific constructs needed to store, retrieve, and delete persistent objects.

Duties

  • Design database structure to meet user requirements.
  • Program databases in computer languages such as Structured Query Language (SQL).
  • Provide data for the database.
  • Test databases.
  • Assist organizational members and clients with database-driven websites, network, database, and application training and technical support.
  • Assist staff with internal systems, applications, and databases, including developing procedures, forms, and other organizational tools.

What are the skills needed?

Manage database: Use query languages and database management systems to design and manage databases.

Use markup languages: Should have the ability to manage a language like HTML to develop interfaces.

ICT knowledge : should have a good knowledge of ICT in order for further analysis and usage.

Defining technical requirements: Specify technical properties of goods, materials, methods, processes, services, systems, software and functionalities by identifying and responding to the particular needs that are to be satisfied according to customer requirements.

Salary

Database designers annually earn between $39,000-$84,000. The average annual income of database designer is $58,000.

Data Engineer

Who are they?

Data engineers are the people who responsible in data analyzing, managing, optimizing and monitoring throughout the organization. They find trends in raw data and develop algorithms to make raw data more useful. This IT role requires a significant set of technical skills, including a deep knowledge of SQL database design and multiple programming languages

Duties

  • Develop, construct, test and maintain architectures.
  • Use programming language and tools.
  • Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
  • Effectively manage day-to-day tasks / activities in coordination with a team of developers to effectively meet the deliverables and schedule of a data solution component within a larger application project.
  • Lend support to various business and technology teams as necessary during design, development and delivery to ensure solid, scalable, robust solutions.

What are the skills needed?

When we consider about the sills that related to data engineering role, we can highlight 3 main skills

  • 1st one is engineering skills , under this skill he/she should have a good understanding about related software like. Jaws scala go long etc .
  • 2nd one is data science skills. This one include data analysing , knowledge about ETL and BL tools and modern data techniques.
  • 3rd skill is data warehousing skill. This is all about data storages and techniques . When we consider about data storages , there are some tools. Some of them are Talend , informatica, redshift etc . So every data engineer should have proper idea about creating data storages, implement data into managed data platforms etc.

Salary

According to the records average annual income of a data engineer is $137,000. And this salary depends on the skills.

Database Programmers

Who are they?

Database programmers write programs as requested or required. They are responsible for maintaining and updating computer programs and databases. To do this role they should have the knowledge on MS Access, Visual Basic, SQL, and the manipulation of Microsoft Office products.

Duties

  • creating software that runs smoothly.
  • Prepares data for analysis using software packages and original programs.
  • organizing and storing all the data in an organization’s computer system.
  • planning and implementing program activities and other projects related to the program objectives.
  • Manipulates database using software packages as well as original source-language programs.

What are the skills needed?

When we consider about the skills of database programmers, we can identify several main skills. Basically as a database programmer, their main duty and responsibility is creating and implementing computer databases.

I have selected data modeling as the first skill. Data modeling is organizing of the given data simply. As a database programmer, you will get tons of data and when you create systems you have to organize them according to how they relates each other. So in my opinion data modeling is a one of the main skill for a database developer.

My second selected skill is better skills in a programming language.As a database programmer , they always have to design, write and modify the programs to improve their databases. So it’s very important to make skills on a preferred programming language.

According to my research SQL is one of the top language using in database programing.

The third selected skill is extracting , transforming of various type of data and sources. Simply we call ETL (extracting, transform load).In this field they have to extract data from different different databases and transferring them and loading them to data warehouse systems. So for faster ETL processing, a programmer should have a good skill on tune existing packages, tables and queries.

Salary

Database programmer annually earn between $45,000-$97,000. The average annual income of database designer is $64,000.

Database developer

Who are they?

Database Developers are people who perform integrity and security of databases. They usually involved in planning, developing and troubleshooting of databases. They determine the best database management system for a particular client, as well as test database programs for efficiency and performance.

Duties

  • Provide guidance and support to Application Developers
  • Assist with schema design, code review, SQL query tuning
  • Upgrade and improve application schema and data upgrades
  • Collecting user requirements and identify new features.
  • Doing researches and suggesting new database products, services and protocols.
  • Giving solutions to database issues and malfunctions.

What are the skills needed?

  • Should have a better understanding of database management.
  • Experience of working with Structured Query Language.
  • should be familiar with .Net Framework, JavaScript, HTML and Oracle.
  • Ability of understanding front-end user requirements.
  • better understanding of a problem and suggesting solutions.

Salary

Database developers annually earn between $51,000-$109,000. The average annual income of database designer is $76,000.

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Tharushi Chamalsha
Tharushi Chamalsha

Written by Tharushi Chamalsha

Software engineering undergraduate

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