Database Administrator, Senior

The expected pay range is based on many factors such as geography, experience, education, and the market. The range is subject to change.

This position is remote; Candidates MUST reside in Cailfornia.

What You Will Be Doing:

Under general supervision, responsible for managing database environment and infrastructure in a manner that ensures data availability, confidentiality, integrity, manageability, security and recovery.

Our Vision:

Continuously improve the health of our community.

Our Mission:

We provide healthcare value and advance wellness through community partnerships.

Essential Functions:

• Designs, builds, implements, tests and maintains databases. environment and infrastructure.
• Plans and conducts structured testing of database designs to confirm functionality and performance.
• Monitors and tunes database environment and infrastructure to meet business needs.
• Evaluates, selects and implements technology and techniques to enhance database environment and infrastructure.
• Manages database code deployments and upgrades.
• Develops, implements and maintains documentation, policies, standards, procedures and guidelines necessary to effectively administer and ensure the security of the database environment.
• Develops, tests, implements and maintains backup strategy and recovery plans.
• Collaborates with other IT teams in support of workload automation.
• Creates, analyzes and reports on database metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Maintains and configures user system access levels based on established Role Based Access Controls.
• Collaborates with support vendor as needed to ensure database environment reliability.
• Provides tier 3 and above support to the Help Desk.

What You Bring:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Required

• In-depth skills and knowledge in SQL services, included but not limited to the ability to run SQL server complete, differential, and transaction log backups.
• In-depth knowledge in SQL services to include but not limited to indexing and performance tuning.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to install, test, and implement database software servers and database management systems and upgrades.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to perform database capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Windows and domain architecture), and network and domain architecture.
• In-depth knowledge of database servers and engines – layout, design, performance factors, data management.

What You Have:

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or closely related field; and
• At least five years of T-SQL experience in design and support of Microsoft SQL Server; and
• At least five years’ experience in stored procedures, triggers, query and performance tuning; and
• At least five years’ experience in administering high transactional, high availability large database systems; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred

• Experience in a managed care health plan environment.
• Experience with QNXT claims processing system
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or closely related field.

Licenses, Certifications

What You Will Get:

HPSJ Perks:

• Competitive salary
• Robust and affordable health/dental/vision with choices in providers
• Generous paid time off (starting at 3 weeks of PTO, 4 paid floating holidays including employee’s birthday, and 9 paid holidays)
• CalPERS retirement pension program, automatic employer-paid retirements contributions, in addition to voluntary defined contribution plan
• Two flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employer-Paid Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer-Paid Disability Insurance
• Employer-Paid Life Assistance Program
• Health Advocacy
• Supplemental medical, legal, identity theft protection
• Access to exclusive discount mall
• Education and training reimbursement in addition to employer-paid elective learning courses.
• A chance to work for an organization that is mission-driven – our members and community are at the core of everything we do.
• A shorter commute ­– if you’re commuting from the Central Valley to the Bay Area.
• Visibility and variety – you have a chance to work with people at all levels of the organization, and work on diverse projects.

• In-depth knowledge of and ability to write stored procedures, complex queries, correlated/nested sub-queries, derived tables, and Common Table Expressions (CTE).
• Strong knowledge with XML and interpreted languages, C# is preferred.
• Strong knowledge in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) with the ability to design complex ETL packages for extracting and loading data to the acquisition, conforming, integration, and dimension layers.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to implement database security elements to support minimal necessary access requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to link database servers to support complete SQL query scripts.
• In-depth knowledge of referential database integrity and normalization.
• Strong knowledge of the principles and methods of all phases of systems development lifecycle methodology.
• Produces work that is accurate and complete.
• Produces the appropriate amount of work.
• Actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures to learn.
• Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Knows the most effective and efficient process to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong knowledge of Bill Inmon data warehouse architecture with ability to create ETL packages to populate acquisition, conforming, integration, and dimension layers.
• Strong knowledge of the principles and methods of project management appropriate to medium sized projects of moderate complexity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Interpersonal skills - interacts effectively with individuals both inside and outside of HPSJ; relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with business and technical users and make presentations.
• Time management and organizational skills. Uses time effectively and efficiently. Values time. Concentrates his/her efforts on the more important priorities. Can attend to a broader range of activities. Meets deadlines.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Basic mathematics skills.
• Ability to speak and be understood in English.
• Ability to handle confidential information with appropriate discretion.

We are an equal opportunity employer and diversity is one of our core values. We believe that differences including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics, will help us create a strong organization that is sensitive to the needs of those we serve. Employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications and merit.

HPSJ provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination based on color, race, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin (including language use) or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, political affiliation or any other characteristic made unlawful by applicable Federal, State or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has these characteristics or is associated with anyone who has or is perceived to have these characteristics.

Important Notice: This job description is not a contract between HPSJ and the employee performing the job. The duties listed in the job description may be changed at the discretion of HPSJ, and HPSJ may request the employee to perform duties that are not listed on the job description.