Why Techhnology Professionals Are So Important to Your Company
Of all the Technology Jobs in Massachusetts the CIO is one of the most important. Here is a little more information as to why they are essential to the success of any company:
CIO ? Job Description: A database administrator (DBA) is responsible for installing, backing up, testing, securing and making changes to production databases within an IT environment. They work on ongoing development projects with developers and architects and, increasingly, with business-side workers. They also maintain operations on a day-to-day basis.
Why You Need One: A company’s data is its lifeblood and therefore it needs an experienced, skilled steward at the helm, says John Mahoney, a senior staffing consultant at Hollister, a staffing firm specializing in technology. “A good DBA?they really are tough to find,” Mahoney says. “You’re talking about the data integrity of the entire company.”
Desired Skills: Companies and recruiters prize real-world experience?from several years to more than 10?over certifications (although those do help, especially for popular platforms like Oracle and, to a lesser extent, SQL Server 2000 and 2005). “The database experience we look for most of the time is Oracle,” says Tom Hart, executive vice president of the operations and technology group at Veritude. “SQL Server is more of a ‘nice-to-have.’”
Demand for other platforms, such as DB/2 and open-source offerings like MySQL, is much softer, say specialists. There is also not yet a great deal of demand for the newer SQL Server 2008.
Where to Look: Go to the likely sources to find DBA candidates, such as job boards for Technology Jobs in Massachusetts and user groups. The main problem, says Hart, is that there are “more DBA jobs than there are people to fill them.”