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Job Description:

Duration: 12 months contract (with possible extension)

Company / Department culture (why do you enjoy working for the company – selling points for potential candidates):

+ This position will provide senior SQL database management for a large project whose team brings significant experience along with an “entrepreneurial” or “startup” attitude and approach. Team members are expected to contribute with minimal supervision and be self-motivated.

+ The project will use modern technologies and modern strategies and require cooperative effort among distributed team members.

+ Candidates who enjoy working on complex, change-oriented projects with motivated team members will find this position attractive.

Notes:

+ Previous experience in health care related information technology, insurance information technology, Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), Medicaid eligibility, or social services eligibility, while not necessary, will be helpful.

+ This position requires excellent communications skills including effective oral and written communication. If a vendor finds it necessary to substantially revise a candidate’s resume or add additional or clarifying information at the top of the candidate’s resume, then the resume is not yet ready for submission, and the candidate will likely not be a good fit.

+ Resumes limited to 2-4 pages

Scope of the project:

+ Various existing solutions plus new development in support of the company.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

+ The Senior SQL DBA is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum/sprint teams) and with the company’s Oracle Database Administrators as well as IDMS DBAs to provide DBA support for numerous application and infrastructure databases.

Duties include:

+ Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.

+ Hands-on SQL development and application support in ways that are consistent with Microsoft best practices.

+ Collaboration with company’s Oracle and IDMS database administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases and the development of operations procedures for database management.

+ Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.

+ Coordinating with outside entities, including vendors for other systems/services, providers, professional associations, and other State agencies.

+ Analyze performance data, recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.

+ Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.

+ Other duties as assigned.

+ Seeking a Senior Microsoft SQL professional with the knowledge and experience along with comparable communication and interpersonal skills to enable success on this high-visibility project.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

+ The Senior SQL DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.

+ Proven DBA experience in supporting enterprise applications in Linux environments, preferably windows and Linux.

+ Experience with Data Guard

+ Demonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using SQL as the database.

+ Understanding of IT development and implementation projects.

+ Understanding of database scalability and operations.

+ Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.

+ Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to project management. Strong proficiency in English is required.

+ Impeccable integrity. This project will have very high visibility and will impact significant expenditures of public funds. Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and the courage to speak out when necessary.

+ Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

+ Understanding of Oracle Enterprise Manager

+ Healthcare industry experience and/or experience managing PHI/PII data

+ Experience in data encryption and traffic encryption.

+ Vendor management experience.

+ Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience

+ Medicaid operations experience.

+ Public sector experience is a plus.

Education:

+ Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field. Master’s degree is desirable.

+ SQLtraining/certification from a recognized source is beneficial but not required.

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com (http://www.ustechsolutionsinc.com/) .

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.