Database Administrator (DBA)/SQL Server Developer

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

Summary

As a Database Administrator (DBA)/SQL Server Developer at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

Your role in our mission

Design your career for growth, new possibilities and refining your valuable skills:

• Provide core technical expertise to support and manage Microsoft SQL Server in a highly challenging environment.
• Provide expertise in writing complex queries.
• Perform SQL performance tuning.
• Design and create tables, views, triggers, partitions, complex stored procedures, functions, indexes and other database objects using SQL/T-SQL
• Analyze database and system response time and determine optimization and tuning recommendation to improve query performance.
• Review long running SQLs in production database and recommend for tuning.
• Work with application/development teams to assist in overall database design, helping developers tune queries, assigning proper indexes, and aiding developers in the creation of triggers and stored procedures.
• Analyze Microsoft SQL Server tables data volume and provide recommendation for indexes and triggers.
• Maximize database stability, up time of databases including Production, Test, Development environments through system monitoring, performance tuning, and routine maintenance tasks such as index rebuilds, file compression, statistical updates, and database consistency checks.
• Manage the storage environments for the databases, including optimal sizing, monitoring space, requesting additional storage, and providing growth statistics.
• Create and assign database roles and privileges.
• Create and execute database backup and recovery policies and maintain integrity and reliability of access to information.
• Import and export data to and from the database servers.
• Perform routine backup and recovery testing, including testing and documenting recovery scenarios.
• Conduct database performance monitoring and capacity planning.
• Monitor and analyze disk I/O, queue lengths.
• Conduct troubleshooting of issues associated with supported SQL databases.
• Perform SQL performance tuning tasks.
• Create and maintain detailed SOPs, configuration documentation, and maintenance plans for the database environment.
• Assist internal client teams with management of production server systems such as network security teams, cloud teams, system security officers.
• Serve as technical liaison between IT teams.
• Provide support of client site change control activities, supporting change control requests and review boards with respect to system implementation.
• Perform security hardening via group policies, local policies, scripting, etc.
• Distinguish between necessary security settings that would protect the system while ensuring usability versus security settings to meet security compliance.
• Understand and translate business needs into data models supporting long-term solutions.
• Work with the application development team to implement data strategies, build data flows and develop conceptual data models.
• Create logical and physical data models using best practices to ensure high data quality and reduced redundancy.
• Optimize and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects.
• Maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models along with corresponding metadata.
• Develop best practices for standard naming conventions and coding practices to ensure consistency of data models.
• Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.
  
  

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of database development, database administration, data modeling and design experience. Must have experience working as a Database Administrator ( DBA)/SQL Developer with application performance experience.
• Extensive expertise in Microsoft SQL Server database to include logical/physical data modeling
• SQL knowledge (query performance tuning, index maintenance, etc.) as well as an understanding of database structure.
• Extensive knowledge in Data De-identification and Test data preparation.
• Extensive experience with collecting business requirements from customers and transform the requirements into database data processes and data schema.
  
  

Other desired areas of expertise include:

• Healthcare EDI standards such as 835s
• SSIS and SSRS
• Job scheduling tools
• Previously worked for health insurance company, TPA, or claim processor
• Understanding on the underlying structure of claims transactions
  
  

What you should expect in this role

• Fully remote opportunity with the option to work anywhere within the United States
• Opportunities to travel through your work (0-10%)
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule to accommodate business needs and travel as required
• This position is part of a rotating on-call team
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
  
  

The deadline to submit applications for this posting is 4/26/2024.

The pay range for this position is $80,000 -$100,000 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits , and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.