Senior Database Administrator

1 day ago

Philadelphia, PA, United States Pennsylvania Medicine Full time

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

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Department: IS Core Infrastructure

Location: 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

Penn Medicine is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join the database services team, with a focus on SQL database administration and performance tuning.

Summary:

The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for maintaining, creating and monitoring database systems across multiple platforms. The Senior DBA troubleshoots issues, provides on call support, provides ongoing database support, performs database upgrades and database deployments to meet all clinical and business requirements of the organization and end-users.
Responsibilities:

  • Performs and participates in activities that ensure database systems are fully recoverable, secure, performing and stable.
  • Performs and participates in monitoring, maintaining a high degree of performance and availability, coordinating system behaviors, utilizing existing tools and creating new methods for managing multiple environments.
  • Actively consults with other team members to ensure successful project implementations and system availability.
  • Supports projects and key activities related to the database infrastructure and works with other key IS stakeholders and team leaders to coordinate necessary resources, outline action plans and make final development decisions.
  • Delivers solutions in line with user expectations as per defined requirements.
  • Researches and analyzes data in support of troubleshooting production issues.
  • Coordinates with other DBAs and users for resolution.
  • In collaboration with management, guides, educates, and supports other team member to meet these same goals.
  • Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
  • Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

Education or Equivalent Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree. (Required)
  • 5+ years of experience in database administration and data architecture. (Required)
  • 5+ years of experience with database programming languages. (Required)
  • Experience with Cloud technologies. (Preferred)

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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