The databases an organization relies on stay accurate, organized, and available because you tend them: maintaining records, managing access, and keeping the data clean. The keeper of the data's order.
Work runs on maintaining databases, managing user access, running reports, and keeping data clean and consistent, mostly at a screen with various teams. Catching errors and inconsistencies is the craft, since bad data quietly misleads decisions, and a lot of the job is the unglamorous upkeep that keeps everything usable.
What surprises people is how much is steady maintenance, not creation: cleanup, access requests, and routine reports. The work can be repetitive, the technology keeps evolving, and being the data go-to means steady interruptions. Scope varies by organization and how much falls to you.
It fits someone organized, detail-oriented, and reliable with routine. If you want creative or fast-changing work, the upkeep can feel dull. But if there's quiet satisfaction in keeping an organization's data trustworthy and accessible, the role tends to be steady and useful, and a path toward broader data work.
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View all Technology roles →The databases an organization relies on stay accurate, organized, and available because you tend them: maintaining records, managing access, and keeping the data clean. The keeper of the data's order.
Median pay for a Database Coordinator is about $105K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $57K to $161K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, and Judgment and Decision Making.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.7% through 2034, with roughly 73,180 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Database Engineer, Security Administrator, and Cyber Database Administrator (Cyber DBA).
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