Senior Database Solutions Architect

Summary

Join MicroHealth as a Sr. Database Solutions Architect (IBM DB2)! This remote position, with potential travel, offers the opportunity to define infrastructure for internet computing systems, optimize database performance, and plan database upgrades. You will collaborate with IT staff, stakeholders, and development teams to ensure database security and compliance. The ideal candidate possesses advanced knowledge of database technologies, SQL and DB2, and a strong track record of success in database administration. This role requires 10 years of experience with SQL and DB2 and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. The position is planned and offers a remote work option.

Requirements

• Evidence of ability to act largely independently on complex tasks and wide-ranging initiatives using a broad exposure and professional understanding of the database administration discipline
• Exhibits advanced knowledge on database technologies, operating systems, best practices, and industry trends including database design, configuration, tuning, and support
• Prior work experience showing broad expertise or unique knowledge working as a database administrator or equivalent planning, designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing database systems
• Excellent track record showing ability to develop relationships and formal and informal networks to influence, coordinate, and communicate
• Advanced knowledge SQL and DB2
• Has ability to analyze complex situations, alternatives, designs, architectures, risks, data, and systems
• Excellent organizational skills including: leading initiatives and modest projects; a facility to handle multiple-tasks and deliverables simultaneously; a track record of exercising independent judgment appropriately; and the ability to quickly understand and execute complex assignments when working on high profile outcomes with inherent risk
• Solid oral/written communication, and inter-personal skills including the ability to: anticipate, influence & adapt to a wide range of audiences; cultivate relationships and leverage organizational understanding to facilitate decision making and buy-in
• A history that illustrates flexibility and adaptability to changing business needs and shows the ability to recognize need for change
• Excellent track record of being capable of working with significant uncertainty, resistance, barriers, issues and challenges; converting uncertainty into quantifiable impact, risk and mitigating actions
• Tools: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Advanced Text Editor SQL
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Required: 10 years of SQL and DB2 experience

Responsibilities

• Defines infrastructure for design and integration of internet computing systems by analyzing information requirements, studying business operations and user-interface requirements, and directing development of physical database
• Determines platform architecture, technology, and tools
• Optimizes and tunes database performance utilizing advanced monitoring tools, query tuning techniques, database, and operating system parameter adjustments, hardware recommendations, and other operational enhancements
• Provides metrics on database performance
• Ensures all optimizations and parameter adjustments are documented and communicated across the team to ensure common settings across multiple productions and test environments
• Identifies performance improvements and works with local and remote development staff to implement and test those recommendations
• Plan and install upgrades of database management system software to enhance database performance
• Interacts with other IT staff to recommend and enforce database standards, ensure compliance, and the security of the database environments
• Supports & troubleshoots the operation of database systems including patching, event monitoring, incident management, backup & recovery, and other forms of remedial & preventative maintenance
• Works with IT Staff and stakeholders to identify requirements for database repositories & systems in support of projects, initiatives, and operational improvements
• Plans for complex database functional capabilities including: database vendor, product, & version; storage; hardware; structure; performance; security; availability; and disaster recovery
• Demonstrate database technical functionality, such as performance, security and reliability
• Leads, plans, and executes projects, small initiatives, and/or cross-functional teams
• Manages high risk, high profile, tight schedule, and complex outcomes with composure
• Design database applications, such as interfaces, data transfer mechanisms, global temporary tables, data partitions, and function-based indexes to enable efficient access of the generic database structure
• Breaks down "barriers to progress" & motivates less experienced members of the team to action

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry certification in SQL Server (preferred), Oracle SQL, or other relevant database administration achievements strongly preferred
• Microsoft SQL Server database certifications
• NoSQL experience
• Graph DB experience

Benefits

Remote position with potential travel to client sites in Rockville, MD, and Albuquerque, NM