Job Description
Insight Global is looking to hire a remote Senior SAP ASE / Sybase DBA with deep Data Architecture expertise to lead a critical data transition effort from a legacy Sybase environment to a modern, Okta‑based Identity Management platform.
This expert will serve as the bridge between complex legacy data structures and modern identity schemas—ensuring accuracy, security, and a seamless migration throughout the customer’s implementation and legacy system decommissioning.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead data mapping from SAP ASE / Sybase to Okta user profiles and identity schemas.
- Design the data architecture strategy supporting modernization, Zero Trust, and legacy system decommissioning.
- Build and validate ETL pipelines (e.g., Azure Data Factory), moving Sybase data to cloud identity targets.
- Reverse‑engineer legacy stored procedures to extract business rules and transformation logic.
- Optimize queries, indexes, and database performance for large‑scale data extraction.
- Manage Sybase Replication Server to ensure consistency across legacy and staging environments.
- Provide senior‑level support for SAP ASE / Sybase and Sybase IQ, including backup/recovery, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
- Enforce strong data security, metadata governance, and compliance with federal Zero Trust requirements.
Compensation:
$65.00/hr to $75.00/hr.
Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.
Employees in this role will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package starting on day one of employment, including options for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Eligibility to enroll in the 401(k) retirement plan begins after 90 days of employment. Additionally, employees in this role will have access to paid sick leave and other paid time off benefits as required under the applicable law of the worksite location.
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Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years hands-on as a database-focused SAP ASE / Sybase DBA. Expert with schemas, dependencies, stored procedures, triggers, indexing, and performance tuning on large estates.
- Large-Scale Migration Experience: Proven delivery of enterprise migrations (hundreds of stored procedures; multi‑DB environments) from Sybase to SQL Server or other modern targets, including reconciliation across overlapping datasets.
- Sybase Expertise: 8+ years administering SAP ASE/Sybase, including Replication Server and performance‑critical stored procedures.
- Advanced T‑SQL: 10+ years of expert-level SAP ASE/Sybase T‑SQL, with strong skills in debugging, refactoring, and optimizing complex procedures and triggers.
- Data Modeling: 4+ years designing relational schemas and translating them into modern, identity‑centric or non‑relational models (e.g., Okta, JSON).
- Cloud Data Integration: Experience using cloud-native ETL/data integration tools for secure data movement from legacy systems.
- Identity Awareness: Understanding of IAM/ICAM and how database design supports Zero Trust architectures.
- Governance & Compliance: Working knowledge of federal cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, FISMA) and data governance practices, including lineage and auditability.
- Soft Skills: Ability to mentor junior engineers and clearly explain legacy‑to‑modern modernization concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
- Performance Tuning: Proficiency with Showplan, Statistics IO, and DBCC for diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
- System Internals: Deep understanding of SAP ASE/Sybase internals—memory, locking, and I/O—to maintain stability during heavy migration workloads.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Hands-on experience with identity or identity software (example – Okta)
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.