About Press Ganey

Press Ganey pioneered the health care performance improvement movement more than 30 years ago. Today, Press Ganey offers an integrated suite of solutions that enable enterprise transformation across the patient journey. Delivered through a cutting-edge digital platform built on a foundation of data security, Press Ganey solutions address safety, clinical excellence, patient experience and workforce engagement. The company works with more than 33,000 health care facilities in its mission to reduce patient suffering and enhance caregiver resilience to improve the overall safety, quality and experience of care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This role is for a Senior Application Developer role located in our Chicago, IL office. The primary responsibilities of this position are to participate in the design, development, support and administration of both production and development databases. Other responsibilities include:

• assisting in the creation of the enterprise database architecture, designing databases to meet software requirements, analyzing performance requirements, testing and evaluating new database features and technology.
• Will lead and direct the work of others.

Database Design

• Collaborate with software development and business teams to establish database requirements.
• Identify and plan for database performance requirements.
• Assist in the design of the enterprise database architecture.

Database Implementation

• Collaborates with software development and business teams to create and execute implementation.
• Identify impact of implementation on other applications and databases.
• Lead and oversee database development teams on database projects.

Database Administration

• Oversee disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Review database configurations and layouts.

Database Support

• Coordinate issue resolution process.

Mentors Database Developers

• Lead a team of database developers.
• Responsible for the quality of work that team members perform.
• Coordinate with other IT and business teams.
• Train other developers on standards, policies and procedures.

Core Competencies:

• Listed below are the core competencies required for this position.
• The right candidate will have demonstrated knowledge of the relational model and normal form as well as data warehousing and ETL methodologies.
• The candidate must have a solid background in data modeling and database and/or application architecture.
• The candidate must also have significant experience with relationship databases such as DB2, Oracle and/or MS SQL.
• DB2 experience is preferred but not required.
• Candidate must be fluent in SQL and a scripting language such as Perl and/or Unix shell script.
• Candidate will have good communication skills both verbal and writing; will be able to write technical documents that are cogent and accessible and will be a self-starter and a team player.

Education and Training Requirement:

• The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical discipline.
• A minimum of 5-8 years of IT experience with four years as a Database Administrator/Database Developer and three years as an Information Modeler/Database Architect is required.