Sr. DBA Details

Sr. DBA

Medecision, Inc. - Dallas, TX

Employment Type : Full-Time

Overview:We are committed to hiring new Liberators in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have taken precautionary measures to protect the health and wellbeing of our Liberator community, including prospective employees, and have adapted our interviewing and onboarding practices to take place virtually for the foreseeable future. Please visit our Career Portal for more details on what to expect along the way!
We are looking for our next Liberator – a Senior DBA – to join our quest to provide market-transforming solutions for businesses, care teams and consumers to interactively manage health and care.
At Medecision, each Liberator contributes uniquely to our mission-critical Must-Win Battles, and the role of our Senior DBA is no different. The Senior DBA plays a key role by contributing their 24X7 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. We are looking for someone who loves big data and the applications that wrap around them in all its forms from relational, to NoSQL. And one who thrives in a highly collaborative environment with various members across Engineering, Infrastructure, IT Operations, Product Solutions and Customer Support to create innovative next generation products.
Are you ready? We are! Join us in our journey toward liberating American healthcare one cool innovation at a time!
Reports to: Director, Infrastructure & IT Operations Location(s): Dallas, TX Expected Travel: up to 5%
Responsibilities:WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• 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.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• 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.

Qualifications:
This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment. Medecision is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.