applications/database administrator

Requisition No: 863120

Agency: State Courts System

Working Title: APPLICATIONS/DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Pay Plan: State Courts System

Position Number:

Salary: $87,555.72 Annually

Posting Closing Date: 11/21/2025

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LOCATION

Office of the State Courts Administrator, Office of Information Technology, 500 South Duval Street, Tallahassee, Florida

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is professional and technical work and is responsible for the administration, monitoring, planning, design, development, operation, maintenance, security, and integrity of the database and application environments. This position is also responsible for coordinating work and supervising staff. This position works independently, with minimal supervision by the Senior Information Systems Consultant (Applications Architecture Manager).

This position involves professional and technical work and is responsible for the administration, monitoring, planning, design, development, operation, maintenance, security, and integrity of the database environments. This position is responsible for coordinating work and supervising staff. This position works independently, with minimal supervision by the Applications and Database Manager.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE GUIDELINES

Additional relevant experience may substitute for the recommended educational level on a year-for-year basis and additional relevant education may substitute for the recommended experience on a year-for-year basis.

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, management information systems or a closely related field and six years of related experience, including database architectural and operations management.

COMPETENCIES/KNOWLEDGE SKILLS ABILITIES

Data Responsibility:

Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations. Observes, receives, and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources. Conducts research to discover new methodologies or to find solutions for unresolved problems.

People Responsibility:

Negotiates or exchanges ideas, information, and opinions with others to formulate policies and programs, or arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions, or solutions. Instructs or trains others through explanation, demonstration, and supervised practice, or by making recommendations on the basis of technical disciplines.

Assets Responsibility:

Responsible for achieving moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management or handling of technology equipment of high value or moderate amounts of money.

Mathematical Requirements:

Uses practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions, measurements, or logarithms; may use algebraic solutions of equations and equalities, deductive geometry, and/or descriptive statistics; uses logic and set theory to understand, develop and manage databases.

Communications Requirements:

Reads and interprets advanced professional materials; writes extremely complex reports and papers; speaks to high level professional groups. Provides information to supervisors, fellow workers and subordinates.

Complexity of Work:

Performs work involving the application of broad principles of professional management and leadership to solve problems; requires sustained, intense concentration for accurate results and continuous exposure to unusual pressure.

Impact of Decision:

Makes decisions with potentially very serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens related to availability of systems and sensitivity of data.

Equipment Usage:

Coordinates the handling of machines, tools, equipment, or work aids involving extensive latitude for judgment regarding attainment of standard or in selecting appropriate items, such as computers and software applications.

Safety of Others:

Requires some responsibility for safety and health of others and/or for occasional enforcement of the standards of public safety or health.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

This position involves professional and technical work and is responsible for the administration, monitoring, planning, design, development, operation, maintenance, security, and integrity of the database environments. This position works independently, with minimal supervision by the Applications and Database Manager.

The Florida State Courts System offers a comprehensive selection of State of Florida employee benefits: membership in the Florida Retirement System, optional enrollment in a subsidized Health insurance plan, optional enrollment in Life, Dental, and Disability insurance plans, and paid term life insurance.

The Florida State Courts System is a criminal justice agency. The successful applicant will be fingerprinted for the purpose of conducting a criminal history record check. Employment in this position is contingent upon a satisfactory criminal background check.

In accordance with Section c), Florida Statutes, positions with the Florida State Courts System (Judicial Branch) are not covered under the Career Service System. All employees have an at-will status and employment is at the discretion of the employer.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit a current and complete online State Employment Profile Application through the People First State of Florida Jobs Internet Website, view the State Courts System page at

An application must be submitted for the position listing the appropriate class title and position number for which you are applying. Your application must be received by 11:59 p.m. on the closing date. When using the People First State of Florida Jobs website to apply and assistance is needed with using the system, contact the People First Service Center by phone at

The successful applicant will be subject to a criminal background check.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, sex or gender, religion or creed, national origin, age, marital status, genetic, disability, or political opinions or affiliations.

We hire only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers.

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The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section , F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.