The Options Clearing Corporation
Senior Associate, Database Administration
Chicago - 125 S Franklin · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$21,058 more — $133,058 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $133,058 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Database Administrators" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Database Administrators (15-1242) · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- To be considered for this position, applications and resumes are accepted only through our careers site by directly applying to the posted job.
- We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies.
- Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account.
Responsibilities
- This role will design and maintain databases and database solutions that operate within prescribed resource limits and meet company standards.
- Assists with the design, implementation, and maintaining databases
- Manage database performance and disk usage
- Provides support in database access methods
- Provides consultation support in database analysis, modeling, coding, and production problem resolution.
- Develops maintenance, backup and recovery procedures and documentation
- Provides Primary On-Call Support for production problems
- Understands and supports corporate data standards
- Supports business studies, proposal teams and costing/feasibility studies
- Maintains metadata repositories
Requirements
- The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- [Required] 3+ years' experience as an associate DBA
- [Required] Proficient in DML, DDL, and database utilities for at least two DBMS technologies
- [Required] Proficient in all access methods of a DBMS as well as the underlying operating system access methods
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
Skills
- [Preferred] 3+ years' experience with Microsoft SQL Server
- [Preferred] 1+ year Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins & CI/CD skills or enthusiastic to learn
- [Preferred] 3+ year PostgreSQL
- Education and/or Experience:
- [Required] bachelor s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Business
- [Preferred] Related financial industry experiences
- Certificates or Licenses:
- [Preferred] Microsoft Certified: Database Administrator Associate
- The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization.
- More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
- A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.
- Some of these components include:
Compensation
- The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
- In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
- We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
- $112,000.00 - $152,500.00
- Incentive Range
Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
- Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
- Generous PTO and Parental leave
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
Company info
- Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions.
- OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.
- As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Equal opportunity
- OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This listing is sourced directly from The Options Clearing Corporation's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.