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We are all part of one firm dedicated to maintaining a diverse workplace that values and celebrates differences. The unique abilities and perspectives of every individual at Cooley create a rewarding workplace and are key to what makes us Cooley. Our people-first culture philosophy and firmwide commitment to inclusion and wellness are central to our success and the driving forces behind our global growth. Our cooperative spirit is the trademark of the Cooley culture, and every employee in every department is instrumental to the success of the firm. Cooley is devoted to continually advancing our standing as one of the world’s greatest law firms, and we believe part of that is achieved when we live up to the promise of making our firm a great place to work.\nPosition summary: \nCooley Technology embraces a culture of customer service excellences, and all members of the department are expected to move this agenda forward. To that end, the Technology Database Engineer is expected to recognize that we are here at Cooley as a service organization first and foremost and will be evaluated on this requirement equal in importance to the technical or operational responsibilities outlined later in this document. This role requires a service-oriented mindset, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in a timely fashion, establishing, and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating, and performing changes on the production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.\nThe Technology Database Engineer serves as the administrator, technical expert, and subject matter expert (SME) for the firm's enterprise database platforms and other enterprise applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. 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Specific duties include, but are not limited to the following:\nPosition responsibilities:\nServe as the technical owner, database administrator, and Technical Subject Matter Expert (Technical SME) for the firm's enterprise database platforms, data services, and database-dependent business applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.\nAdminister and support Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Elite/3E application servers, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI, Qlik, Contract Express, Cooley GO, financial systems, and other business-critical database and reporting platforms.\nManage all aspects of database administration, including installation, configuration, security, performance tuning, capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, migrations, and ongoing platform optimization.\nServe as the firm's technical expert for database architecture, SQL Server technologies, cloud database services, data integration, reporting platforms, and application interoperability.\nDesign, implement, and support database integrations, application connectivity, data synchronization, reporting services, and AWS data transfer solutions with Qlik and other enterprise platforms.\nPartner with business stakeholders, developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and application owners to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable database and application solutions.\nServe as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex database, reporting, application, performance, availability, and integration-related issues, providing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis.\nLead database and application implementations, upgrades, migrations, modernization initiatives, decommissioning projects, and production releases, including planning, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.\nCoordinate vendor support, maintenance activities, support escalations, platform enhancements, and lifecycle management while ensuring database environments meet security, compliance, availability, and business continuity requirements.\nDevelop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, standards, and disaster recovery plans; 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