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Database Administrator jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with degrees in computer science, information systems, or a related field. Most DBA roles qualify as STEM OPT extensions, giving you up to 36 months of work authorization. Employers regularly sponsor H-1B visas for experienced DBAs due to consistent demand for database expertise.
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will be responsible for all operational database administration duties, data engineering, and data operations within the Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse (Snowflake) ecosystem including, but not limited, to the following:
- Take the lead on our daily database administration, ensuring our data environment stays healthy and reliable.
- Partner closely with our Staff EDW Architect to bring new visions to life, designing high-quality data artifacts that follow industry best practices.
- Turn business needs into smart, reusable ETL solutions that grow alongside our company.
- Design end-to-end pipelines using your expertise with data models and architecture diagrams to build automated ingestion and transformation pipelines that keep our data moving on schedule.
- Analyze and produce artifacts such as Source-to-Target Mapping documents.
- Build pipelines that bring together data from everywhere—whether it’s RDBMS, APIs, JSON, or flat files—creating a seamless flow of information.
- Define the "Source of Truth" using tools like Python and ETL software to clean, integrate, and transform data into a single, reliable resource the whole company can trust.
- Provide day-to-day operational support for all the data pipelines by monitoring and investigating alerts, while troubleshooting and remediating production issues in a timely manner.
- Act as a player-coach for junior and intermediate data engineers and ETL developers as the EDO team grows.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What You’ll Bring To The Table:
- Deep experience performing ETL design and development via custom coding (SQL, Python, Spark, Java, etc.) as well as using ETL tools (e.g., Coalesce, Informatica, DataStage, Talend) and other tools such as Data Quality tools, Metadata Manager, etc.
- Extensive hands-on, professional experience working with Snowflake as a Database Administrator (DBA) and clear understanding of Snowflake’s Access Control framework.
- Comfortable with Cloud-hosted solutions, especially AWS with experience deploying Secrets Manager, KMS, S3, EC2, Linux, Cross-Account Access, etc in a scaled environment.
- Innate curiosity to fundamentally understand and solve problems. You’re not satisfied until you can clearly explain how and why an error occurred, and you are driven to ensure it never happens again!
- Understanding of data warehousing architecture fundamentals (e.g., Kimball vs. Inmon, Medallion Architecture, 3NF data models, reference data models, dimensional models, conformed dimensions, SCDs, etc.).
- Experience in orchestrating data operations via tools such as Apache Airflow, Cron, Astronomer etc.
COMPENSATION
The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in Ontario, Canada. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. This range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Factors Influencing Final Compensation:
- The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.
- Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.
Ontario Salary Band $100,000 - $125,000 CAD
The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected hourly rate for candidates located in Ontario, Canada. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. This range represents hourly rate only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Factors Influencing Final Compensation:
- The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.
- Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.
Ontario Hourly Band $100,000 - $125,000 CAD
STACKADAPT'S ENJOY:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
ABOUT STACKADAPT
We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:
- Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024
- G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024
- Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK
- 2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
-
1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
To learn more about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy.
INTRODUCTION
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will be responsible for all operational database administration duties, data engineering, and data operations within the Data Lake and Enterprise Data Warehouse (Snowflake) ecosystem including, but not limited, to the following:
- Take the lead on our daily database administration, ensuring our data environment stays healthy and reliable.
- Partner closely with our Staff EDW Architect to bring new visions to life, designing high-quality data artifacts that follow industry best practices.
- Turn business needs into smart, reusable ETL solutions that grow alongside our company.
- Design end-to-end pipelines using your expertise with data models and architecture diagrams to build automated ingestion and transformation pipelines that keep our data moving on schedule.
- Analyze and produce artifacts such as Source-to-Target Mapping documents.
- Build pipelines that bring together data from everywhere—whether it’s RDBMS, APIs, JSON, or flat files—creating a seamless flow of information.
- Define the "Source of Truth" using tools like Python and ETL software to clean, integrate, and transform data into a single, reliable resource the whole company can trust.
- Provide day-to-day operational support for all the data pipelines by monitoring and investigating alerts, while troubleshooting and remediating production issues in a timely manner.
- Act as a player-coach for junior and intermediate data engineers and ETL developers as the EDO team grows.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What You’ll Bring To The Table:
- Deep experience performing ETL design and development via custom coding (SQL, Python, Spark, Java, etc.) as well as using ETL tools (e.g., Coalesce, Informatica, DataStage, Talend) and other tools such as Data Quality tools, Metadata Manager, etc.
- Extensive hands-on, professional experience working with Snowflake as a Database Administrator (DBA) and clear understanding of Snowflake’s Access Control framework.
- Comfortable with Cloud-hosted solutions, especially AWS with experience deploying Secrets Manager, KMS, S3, EC2, Linux, Cross-Account Access, etc in a scaled environment.
- Innate curiosity to fundamentally understand and solve problems. You’re not satisfied until you can clearly explain how and why an error occurred, and you are driven to ensure it never happens again!
- Understanding of data warehousing architecture fundamentals (e.g., Kimball vs. Inmon, Medallion Architecture, 3NF data models, reference data models, dimensional models, conformed dimensions, SCDs, etc.).
- Experience in orchestrating data operations via tools such as Apache Airflow, Cron, Astronomer etc.
COMPENSATION
The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in Ontario, Canada. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. This range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Factors Influencing Final Compensation:
- The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.
- Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.
Ontario Salary Band $100,000 - $125,000 CAD
The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected hourly rate for candidates located in Ontario, Canada. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. This range represents hourly rate only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Factors Influencing Final Compensation:
- The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.
- Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.
Ontario Hourly Band $100,000 - $125,000 CAD
STACKADAPT'S ENJOY:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
ABOUT STACKADAPT
We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:
- Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024
- G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024
- Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK
- 2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
-
1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
To learn more about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Database Administrator
Target companies with active database infrastructure
Large enterprises in finance, healthcare, and tech maintain complex database environments and hire DBAs regularly. These organizations are more likely to have established H-1B sponsorship processes and familiarity with OPT work authorization requirements.
Highlight your STEM OPT eligibility upfront
DBA roles under CIP codes for computer science and information systems qualify for the 24-month STEM extension. Mentioning your 36-month total OPT window early in outreach reassures employers who worry about short authorization timelines.
Get certified in employer-preferred database platforms
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and AWS certifications signal job-ready skills to hiring managers. Certifications reduce employer hesitation around sponsorship by demonstrating technical depth that justifies the investment in your work authorization.
Emphasize performance tuning and security experience
Generic database skills are easy to find. Specific experience with query optimization, disaster recovery, and access control makes you harder to replace and strengthens the employer's case that your role qualifies as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes.
Apply early relative to your OPT start date
Hiring timelines for DBA roles can run six to ten weeks. Starting your search at least three months before your OPT authorization begins ensures you have time to complete interviews, receive an offer, and coordinate your employer's OPT reporting obligations.
Use Migrate Mate to find OPT-friendly DBA openings
Migrate Mate surfaces Database Administrator roles from employers with a verified history of sponsoring international candidates. Filtering by sponsorship likelihood saves time and focuses your applications on companies already open to OPT and H-1B candidates.
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Do Database Administrator jobs qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes. Database Administrator roles typically fall under STEM-designated CIP codes in computer science or information systems, making them eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Combined with your initial 12-month OPT period, you can work in this role for up to 36 months without an H-1B visa, provided your employer meets the E-Verify requirement.
How often do employers sponsor H-1B visas for DBAs?
Database Administrators are among the consistently sponsored roles in the H-1B program. DOL disclosure data shows regular LCA filings for DBA positions across finance, healthcare, consulting, and enterprise technology. Employers in data-heavy industries treat skilled DBAs as specialty occupation hires, which supports the H-1B petition. Browsing Migrate Mate lets you identify employers with active sponsorship track records in this field.
Can I work as a Database Administrator on OPT if my degree is in information systems rather than computer science?
Yes. Information systems is a STEM-designated field, and DBA roles align closely with that curriculum. USCIS evaluates whether the job and degree field are related, and database administration has a clear connection to information systems coursework covering data management, systems architecture, and database design. Your I-20 should reflect a STEM-eligible major for the extension to apply.
What should I do if a DBA job listing says 'U.S. citizens and permanent residents only'?
Many employers add this language by default rather than as a firm policy. It is worth applying anyway or reaching out to the recruiter directly to clarify whether OPT candidates are considered. Some listings use that language to exclude candidates requiring immediate H-1B sponsorship, but they may still hire OPT students who already have work authorization for the next two to three years.
Does the type of database specialization affect my sponsorship prospects?
It can. Specializations in cloud-based databases such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or Google Cloud Spanner are in higher demand and attract more employers willing to sponsor. On-premise Oracle and SQL Server experience remains valuable in regulated industries like banking and healthcare. The more specialized and current your skill set, the stronger the employer's justification for filing an H-1B petition on your behalf.
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