The Senior DBA will play a key role by contributing their enterprise-class database and applications operations expertise, coupled with their broad big data curiosity, proven service delivery and optimization for a transforming cloud and managed services environment. They will love big data and the applications that wrap around them in all its forms from relational, to NoSQL. They will thrive in a highly collaborative environment with various members across Engineering, Infrastructure, IT Operations, Product Solutions and Customer Support to create innovative next generation products.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the database technology stack (MySQL/MSSQL/PostgreSQL) ensuring data integrity, security, retention, and recoverability of the data.
- Design, build, test, and deploy quality database solutions that are consistent with project objectives, technology architecture standards and departmental best.
- Create and administer all database objects from design to deployment utilizing subject matter expertise to design or re-use, configure, and implement database solutions/processes that maximize system availability, efficiency, effectiveness, integrity, recoverability, and supportability.
- Serve as the primary support for SaaS client requests for frequent and timely data copy processes, with a strong understanding of incident management and root cause analysis, while delivering high levels of customer service that aligns to our Internal and Customer service levels.
- Perform script maintenance and batch job processing as a critical element of our data import management.
- Ensure existing and new processes are integrated with standard operating procedures that also meet business requirements and system goals.
- Collaborate with product and development teams by understanding the business requirements, ultimately contribute to our overall data roadmap.
- Partner with architecture team to contribute to the future state technology strategy and to define database and application best practices.
- Mentor and assist other team members as they onboard and migrate to new technologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, related degree, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in database administration and management.
- Hands-on experience in MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL database administration including capacity planning, load balancing, high availability, patching, upgrading, monitoring, data replication and migration experience.
- Experience in Disaster Recovery for multi-site deployments on complex database environments.
- Experience in database schema design including logical and physical database schemas design for large scale, highly available and mission critical application systems.
- Experience designing and supporting the database components of software applications and an understanding of the entire application development life cycle.
- Experience with complex SQL programming, performance tuning, optimization of SQL statements, setting up events, stored procedures, creating views and triggers.
- Proficiency with Linux, shell scripting and cron are desired, should be equally adept in Windows.
- Experience in private cloud and public cloud is desirable.
- Knowledge surrounding code repositories such as Bitbucket and Github.
- Good writing skills to provide documentation for DBA and other teams.
- Experience in the healthcare IT, population health management, EMR and SaaS industries are strongly preferred.
- Self-motivator, who can work independently, able to learn quickly, prioritize effectively, meets deadlines, and demonstrates problem-solving skills.