Database Administrator – Database Design & Support

Pay Range: $42.87 - $55.73/hr. | $89,164 - $115,914 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Friday, April 24, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: FLSA Exempt position. Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; some evening/weekend work required. This position will be located at the Fort Worth City Hall, 100 Fort Worth Trail, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Partial telecommuting options will be available with a minimum of 2-days in-office attendance required each week. On a monthly rotational basis, this position will also serve as the on-call database support person.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Database Administrator position is available with the City of Fort Worth IT Solutions’ Database Design & Support division. This position will predominantly assist with the support of the approximately 80 SQL Servers and 1700+ databases that are used throughout the City of Fort Worth. The Database (DBA) team maintains and supports over 400 applications, ranging from in-house developed applications (.Net) to cloud-hosted solutions. Many of the applications exchange information through interfaces and/or API developed programs. These interfaces are primarily supported by the DBA Team. In this position you will have the ability to support databases that provide solutions that can change the way the City conducts business. You will be performing day-to-day support for numerous systems/applications, while also working on many enterprise projects that have been approved.

We are constantly bringing new technology to the City of Fort Worth to streamline business processes, improve government transparency and make services more readily available to our citizens. This opportunity offers challenges in technology, ability to take business requirements and identify technical solutions, automate customer manual processes, and interface multiple systems together to best provide the customers with supporting data within the City of Fort Worth.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

• Five (5) years of responsible experience in information system technical support work such as operating systems, database administration, or related fields

• Valid Driver’s License

• Candidate selected for hire must pass a CJIS background check (see below for details)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)

• Five (5) years of experience with developing SSIS packages and SSRS reporting

• Three (3) years of experience with IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager (DM)

• Three (3) years of experience with SP Blitz (Brent Ozar tools)

• Powershell development experience

• Experience with building and supporting Data Warehouses, Data Lakes and Data Lake Houses

• Experience with integrating database platforms with Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms

• ETL Processing and/or Linked Server integrations

The Database Administrator’s job responsibilities include:

• Provide excellent customer service to internal departments

• Work with a team of DBAs to manage the Microsoft SQL environment

• Participate in the support for application access and usage of databases

• Develop database centric interfaces (i.e.: Microsoft SSIS packages)

• Provide support to manage the security footprint for accessing databases

• Build new application specific reports using Microsoft SSRS

• Work Helpdesk tickets that are opened by employees, asking for assistance with database related functions

• Document in-house DBA developed applications

• Perform routine maintenance, such as database tuning, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring\tuning

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions.

Light Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for the Sedentary Work category and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated Light Work.

Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Background Check

Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position: Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.