Senior Database Administrator

Summary

Join Northwestern Medicine as a Senior Database Administrator and contribute to our mission of providing better healthcare. You will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing database systems, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery. This role requires strong technical skills, excellent communication, and proven project management abilities. You will collaborate with team members, other IT professionals, and vendors to resolve issues and implement improvements. Northwestern Medicine offers competitive benefits, including 401(k) matching and lifecycle benefits. Apply today and become part of our dedicated team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Relevant IT Certifications
• 7+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for implementation of RDBMS architecture for high availability, disaster recovery, and test systems utilizing best practices in the industry
• Maintain databases in the following areas: space management and object necessary to ensure optimum database performance and data integrity for systems
• Conduct regular database, file structure & security reviews to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, standards and methodologies & to identify areas of improvement
• Report findings & recommendations to Database Manager, Database Team Members as well as leadership
• Complete management approved documentation necessary for all planned tests, implementations, upgrades & conversions, including implementation schedules & backout/recovery plans as evidenced by regular management reviews of online & hardcopy documentation
• Monitor databases on a regular basis, particularly space utilization, and perform proper & timely database backups/restores, reorganizations, re-indexing and compiles as directed
• Monitor and complete regular performance maintenance tasks, data integrity checks, performance tuning & backups/recovery steps as evidenced by successful completion of planned maintenance and minimal unplanned loss of database and system availability/functionality
• Exhibit strong oral & written communication skills necessary to communicate both technically &non-technically with team members, other IS professional staff, IS management, users & vendors to ensure successful & cooperative completion of tasks
• Communicate and follow up in a positive & meaningful manner with customers on (1) the incident ticket management, (2) proper procedures for system evaluations, (3) current task &project priorities that may conflict with their service request and (4) alternatives to requests for services that do not meet standards
• Communicate, via written and oral media, the status on project implementations & problem resolutions other IS staff, IS management & users as necessary
• Communicate problems & resolution statuses to vendors in a timely & professional manner as evidenced by positive and successful client/vendor relationships & results
• Document policies, procedures, standards & methodologies as necessary for the proper maintenance of databases
• Exhibit strong task & project management skills required to ensure tasks & projects are completed in a timely manner
• Assist Database Manager in developing logical, project plans, including task timeframes and resource estimates
• Develop & maintain proficient use of project management software & tools as demonstrated by use in project planning as well as problem resolution, change control & quality control
• Understand & adhere to system implementation and system problem resolution priorities set by DBA Team & IS management as evidenced by implementation & problem resolution outcomes
• Assist in the identification & evaluation of new application/database products & tools and make recommendations for purchase
• Participate as an active, contributing member of project teams as evidenced by project minutes, status reports and outcomes
• Exhibit ability to resolve problems effectively and efficiently to ensure minimal disruptions and unplanned downtimes of assigned systems and databases
• Utilize database knowledge & experience to effectively and efficiently analyze issues, diagnose problems & determine resolutions, working with other DBAs, Infrastructure & Application teams as necessary
• Escalate problems in a timely manner to Team Leader, other IS on-call/management staff & vendors as necessary
• Document all problem-solving measures that then properly allow for team members to resolve recurring problems effectively & efficiently
• Provide on-call coverage of database systems 24x7x365 on a rotating basis
• Assist in Business/Disaster Recovery planning & preparedness efforts by participating in meetings and developing plans for responsible application databases

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience in core discipline in the healthcare industry

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Lifecycle benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Loan forgiveness