Senior Database Administrator

Benefits

• $10,000 Tuition Reimbursement per year ($5,700 part-time)
• $10,000 Student Loan Repayment ($5,000 part-time)
• $1,000 Professional Development per year ($500 part-time)
• $250 Wellbeing Fund per year($125 for part-time)
• Matching 401(k)
• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Annual Employee Salary Increase and Incentive Bonus
• Paid time off and Holiday pay

Northwestern Medicine is powered by a community of colleagues who are purpose-driven and committed to our mission to deliver world-class care. Here, you'll work alongside some of the best clinical talent in the nation leading the way in medical innovation and breakthrough research with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

We recognize where you've been, and we support where you're headed. We celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences, which fuel our commitment to equity and culture of service.

Grow your career with comprehensive training and development opportunities, mentorship programs, educational support and student loan repayment.

• Create the life you envision for yourself with flexible work options, a Reimbursable Well-Being Fund and a Total Rewards package that support your physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being.
• Make a difference through volunteer opportunities we offer in local communities and drive inclusive change through our workforce-led resource groups.

From discovery to delivery, come help us shape the future of medicine.

Remote work from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa

Description

The Senior Database Administrator, reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for keeping the hardware platforms and their associated operating systems and connectivity capabilities fully operational and well-integrated into NM information technology environment. This position works to monitor, analyze and plan upgrades, as necessary, to ensure adequate capacity and availability to meet the user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Skills
  • Provides leadership for implementation of RDBMS architecture for high availability, disaster recovery, and test systems utilizing best practices in the industry.
  • Maintains databases in the following areas: space management and object necessary to ensure optimum database performance and data integrity for systems.
  • Conducts regular database, file structure & security reviews to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, standards and methodologies & to identify areas of improvement.
  • Reports findings & recommendations to Database Manager, Database Team Members as well as leadership.
  • Completes 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.
  • Monitors databases on a regular basis, particularly space utilization, and performs proper & timely database backups/restores, reorganizations, re-indexing and compiles as directed.
  • Monitors and completes 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.
• Communication and Collaboration
  • Exhibits 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.
  • Communicates and follows 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.
  • All are evidenced by positive oral & written feedback from customers as well as positive service excellence survey results.
  • Communicates, via written and oral media, the status on project implementations & problem resolutions other IS staff, IS management & users as necessary.
  • Communicates problems & resolution statuses to vendors in a timely & professional manner as evidenced by positive and successful client/vendor relationships & results.
  • Documents policies, procedures, standards & methodologies as necessary for the proper maintenance of databases.
• Planning and Strategic Thinking:
  • Exhibits strong task & project management skills required to ensure tasks & projects are completed in a timely manner.
  • Assists Database Manager in developing logical, project plans, including task timeframes and resource estimates.
  • Develops & maintains proficient use of project management software & tools as demonstrated by use in project planning as well as problem resolution, change control & quality control.
  • Understands & adheres to system implementation and system problem resolution priorities set by DBA Team & IS management as evidenced by implementation & problem resolution outcomes.
  • Assists in the identification & evaluation of new application/database products & tools and makesrecommendations for purchase.
  • Participates as an active, contributing member of project teams as evidenced by project minutes,status reports and outcomes.
  • Support Responsibilities: Exhibits ability to resolve problems effectively and efficiently to ensureminimal disruptions and unplanned downtimes of assigned systems and databases.
  • Utilizes database knowledge & experience to effectively and efficiently analyze issues, diagnoseproblems & determine resolutions, working with other DBAs, Infrastructure & Application teams asnecessary.
  • Escalates problems in a timely manner to Team Leader, other IS on-call/management staff &vendors as necessary.
  • Documents all problem-solving measures that then properly allow for team members to resolverecurring problems effectively & efficiently.
  • Provides on-call coverage of database systems 24x7x365 on a rotating basis.
  • Assists in Business/Disaster Recovery planning & preparedness efforts by participating inmeetings and developing plans for responsible application databases.

Qualifications

Required:

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

Preferred:

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

Equal Opportunity

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.