IT Sr. Database Administrator - Henry Ford Health - Careers Careers

Under direction of the DBA Specialist, IT Manager, or the Director manages and maintains all production and non-production databases, software systems and third-party IT products. The Senior DBA leads the planning, design, development, release management, troubleshooting and support of database components, software systems and third party IT products. This position is responsible for standards and design of physical data storage, maintenance, access, and security administration. The responsibilities also include troubleshooting application issues and/or data issues when they arise. You will communicate solutions, issues, and risks directly with technical management or other responsible entities. The Senior DBA ensures appropriate security, backup, and recovery on Database Management Systems; configures database parameters; prototypes designs against logical data models; defines data repository requirements, data dictionaries and warehousing requirements. This individual optimizes database access and allocates/re-allocates database resources for optimum configuration, database performance and cost. The Senior DBA supports multiple services and multiple databases of high impact, high importance, and high complexity (complexity defined by database size, technology used, systems feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility of data. The Senior DBA is part of an IT team that is accountable for production support (including on-call duties in a 24x7 environment) as well as new projects. The ideal candidate will have led database development projects and advised management and users on new or optimal technologies or methods to improve the functionality and/or efficiency of the organization’s databases. He or she will have coached, trained, and mentored less senior professionals. .

• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree preferred.
• 7 years of applicable work experience required, with 5 years as a DBA; experience in a Healthcare setting preferred.
• Good expertise with healthcare industry and COTS products Good understanding of any major EHR solution
• Good understanding of server virtualization technologies Ability to work off hours in 24X7 production support environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Proven ability to peer review functional and technical tasks
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

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Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services - from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.