We are seeking a database administrator who has a passion to solve challenging and complex problems. The candidate will work in a team environment monitoring and tuning databases focusing on SQL Server.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Trace applications sessions for performance problems, recognizing problematic SQL statements
• Tune SQL statements
• Collaborate closely with the architecture, leadership and client support
• Create, export, import, and backup relational databases
• Work directly with engineering teams providing guidance for queries and database interactions
• Champion SQL and database best practices
• Build process for application version upgrade scripts
• Read and understand PL/SQL or Transact SQL stored procedures across a large scale enterprise level database
• Review development scripts for conformance to established standards
• Detect performance problems using tooling, scripts and testing
• Troubleshoot and provide clear explanations of data layer performance problems

Education and Experience

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Management or related field.
• Two (2) to four (4) years' experience with relational databases, either at the SQL or service management level.
• Healthcare data experience is preferred
• Experience with relational database concepts
• Experience working on production systems.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Proficient with Microsoft SQL Server
• PL/SQL or Transact-SQL programming; experience with Postgres and Amazon Aurora is a plus
• Familiarity database performance analyzers
• Understanding of Disk Storage Management Techniques
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills, experience working in a global team preferred
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to create technical documentation
• Ability to work issues to successful resolution