Database Administrator - Site Characterization

One (1) Position Available – Temporary – 18 months

Position Location:  Toronto Head Office – 30 Adelaide Street East

or Ignace, Ontario – 304 Main Street

Job Summary

Reporting to the Section Manager, Site Characterization Data Management, the Database Administrator  (Data Stewardship Focus) will administer and provide expert advice and technical support for NWMO’s data management systems.  Working closely with NWMO’s IT function and vendors, this role will support teams to ensure systems functionality, performance and usability. The role is focused on supporting the day-to-day operation of NWMO’s Site Characterization Data Management System through the review, quality assurance, publication, and stewardship of scientific data assets.

Key duties include reviewing, evaluating and quality assuring site characterization data to ensure compliance with NWMO’s quality assurance protocols; acting as the subject matter expert for Seequent DAP; creating and reviewing metadata; supporting dataset publication workflows; providing user support; and ensuring scientific data assets are accurately documented and accessible to NWMO staff.

Responsibilities

• Review, evaluate, and quality-assure data and products from both internal teams and external consultants to ensure compliance with NWMO’s Quality Assurance Protocols.

• Diagnose and clean problematic data and work with internal staff and external consultants to ensure compatibility for SCDMS publication.

• Ensure submitted datasets and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, and compliant with NWMO data management and quality assurance requirements prior to publication.

• Administer and provide expert advice and support to NWMO users on Seequent’s DAP Server technology

• Interface with the NWMO IT function and vendor support teams to ensure system functionality, performance and usability, as well as on-going assurance of data asset security, integrity and availability to NWMO staff.

• Act as the subject matter expert on DAP technology functionality.  Advise users on best practices and troubleshoot issues.  Create and review metadata and provide user support for the NWMO’s metadata editor tool (MDE).

• Perform other duties as required.

• Act as primary operational contact for Seequent DAP Server, supporting publication activities, coordinating routine maintenance activities with vendors and IT, and helping ensure repository content remains accurate and accessible.

Qualifications and Experience

• A 4-year bachelor’s degree majoring in science, geology, earth science, or Geographic Information System (GIS), Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS).

• Over 6 years of Professional experience working with geoscientific and/or environmental monitoring data.

• Experience working collaboratively with scientists, engineers, or other technical subject matter experts to support data management activities.

• Experience working with structured scientific, environmental, engineering, or geospatial datasets, including quality assurance, metadata management, and data publication activities.

• Experience working with documented procedures and quality assurance processes in a regulated or technically governed environment.

• Ability to work in procedurally regulated IT environment

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team

• Demonstrated ability to multitask in a high-pace environment

• Must be proactive and able to communicate effectively in both oral and written form

Assets

• Seequent DAP Server

• Microsoft certification

• Experience with SQL Server performance tuning including:  Query optimization, Index and statistics maintenance, troubleshooting I/O bottlenecks and long waits

• Experience working with SharePoint-based solutions or other enterprise content management platforms.

Other Information

Must be eligible to work in Canada and must be able to meet security clearance requirements.

NWMO currently operates in a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office (Tuesdays being universal) and 2 days working from home.

Candidates residing in the Greater Toronto Area: Office Location – 22 St. Clair Avenue East until their role is required to relocate.

Current employees may continue working from their existing work location/arrangements until their role is required at site.

We offer a competitive base salary, health care benefits and a defined benefit pension plan.

The NWMO is committed to contributing to Reconciliation in all its work by co-creating a shared future built on rights, equity and well-being.  As an employment equity employer, NWMO actively seeks Indigenous Peoples, members of visible minorities, women, people with disabilities, and additional diverse identities for our workforce.  The NWMO will provide accommodation to applicants with disabilities.  If you require accommodation, please contact us.

We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage interested candidates to apply at their earliest convenience to ensure full consideration.

The NWMO is committed to a fair, transparent, and efficient recruitment process. While we sincerely appreciate every expression of interest, only those candidates selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted directly.