SQLServer Database Administrator

“SHPS is dedicated to driving, innovating and delivering healthcare consumerism for our clients, partners and participants. Our broad range of clinical, financial and benefit solutions enable and encourage wise healthcare consumerism, promote better health, lower healthcare costs, and maximize the quality and value of today’s healthcare.”

Job Skills/Requirements
The person for this position will ensure the integrity, high availability, security and performance of our corporate databases. Communication skills are an essential ingredient for working with both peers and application/product development teams at other US sites in the design and implementation of databases which support the SHPS business processes.

- Process workflow for database and data model activities, such as migrating schema changes and enterprise-wide standards throughout the environment.
- Problem resolution for database-related functions.
- Keeping corporate data model diagrams and data dictionary information current.
- Enforcing corporate data policies, such as backup/recovery, security and database maintenance routines and schedules.
- Strategic database design, planning and execution with Product and Application Engineering teams.
- Performance monitoring and tuning of development, test and production environments including identification and tuning of poor-performing application code and/or database configuration.
- Identify and automate regular database and application maintenance tasks.
- Mentor junior members of the database staff.

Requirements
- Bachelors degree
- A minimum of 3 years SQLServer DBA experience on large-scale enterprise applications.
- T-SQL and/or PL/SQL programming and SQL tuning experience.
- Demonstrated experience translating conceptual design into logical and physical data models.
- Backup and recovery experience
- Work with a geographically dispersed team
- Good communication skills
- Documentation skills

Preferred Skills:
- Oracle or Sybase experience
- Perl

Additional Information/Benefits
All benefits are effective on the 29th day of employment with the exception of tuition reimbursement, which is effective after 90 days of employment.  Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K/403b Plan, Educational Assistance

Screening Requirements: Drug Screen, Criminal Background Check

Please apply online at www.shps.com/careers

This position will not be released to agencies.