Senior Database Administrator

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana • Baton Rouge, LA

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About The Position

Plans, designs, installs, monitors, and maintains primary and auxiliary database management system (DBMS) architecture for corporate computerized systems, ensuring integrity, security, availability, recoverability, reliability, and performance. Provides extended-level technical support to DBMS clients and tactical planning and recommendations for database systems and products. Leads and coaches groups of professionals and serves as a subject matter expert for database design and changes, including somewhat complex work. Works toward successful client outcomes and solves logical problems with some supervision, direction, or coaching. The role is accountable for compliance with applicable laws and regulations and does not manage people. It reports to Departmental Leadership and requires contact with all levels of BCBSLA personnel and outside vendors.

The position plans, researches, designs, analyzes, estimates, recommends, installs, tests, schedules, implements, administers, documents, monitors, tunes, and maintains database architecture in assigned areas of specialty. It develops technical proposals to support IT tactical plans, and provides technical and soft-skill mentoring and knowledge transfer to a small group of professionals. The employee may be responsible for on-call and emergency response tasks as necessary.

Duties are performed in a normal, clean office environment with normal noise levels, predominantly while standing or sitting. Residency in or relocation to Louisiana is preferred. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored immigration support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; four years of related experience may substitute for the degree.
• Four years of work experience and an extensive professional technical DBA background in at least one listed DBMS platform: Oracle (Unix and Windows), MS SQL Server (Unix and Windows), MongoDB, Document DB, Azure SQL, AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Teradata.
• Experience with Azure Data Lake and Databricks.
• Thorough knowledge of IT practices and techniques for somewhat complex design, implementation, and maintenance of corporate DBMS architectures.
• Understanding of the application development life cycle and hardware/software infrastructure, including systems programming, communications, server support, operating systems, and languages.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve logical problems.
• Experience in at least two of these technical competencies: Active Directory, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, workflow automation, PaaS, IaaS, CaaS, AWS, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, networking, scripting (such as shell scripts, PowerShell, Perl, Ruby, or Python), dimensional modeling, or MPP databases.
• Demonstrated understanding of systems installation and maintenance.
• Communication and relationship-management skills to exchange information and resolve client problems.
• Experience using improved systems or analysis technology.
• Networking knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.
• Experience defining and resolving product or project problems and issues, analyzing business requirements, and evaluating alternatives.
• Thorough understanding and extended-level DBA skills to ensure the integrity, security, availability, recoverability, reliability, and performance of one or more listed DBMS platforms.
• Ability to initiate and achieve successful results and solve logical problems independently and with some direction or coaching.
• Ability to plan, develop, and lead teams or projects involving the accurate design of somewhat complex systems and changes.
• Ability to document comprehensive and concise project requirements and communicate clearly in writing and speech.
• Ability to provide extended-level coaching and technical direction and serve as a subject matter expert.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks, adjust focus as demands change, stay organized, follow standard procedures, and deliver work to requirements.
• Effective internal customer service and consulting skills.
• Ability to learn new skills promptly and complete projects to a high standard, including work outside one's specialty.
• Ability to comprehend, document, calculate, visualize, and analyze.
• Must be authorized to work for Louisiana Blue in the United States without employer-sponsored immigration support.

Nice To Haves

• DBA experience across more than one of the listed database platforms.
• Certification in the listed DBMS platforms.
• Residency in or relocation to Louisiana.

Responsibilities

• Plan, research, design, analyze, estimate, recommend, install, test, schedule, implement, administer, document, monitor, tune, and maintain primary and auxiliary DBMS architecture.
• Ensure database systems' integrity, security, availability, recoverability, reliability, and performance to meet client needs and expectations.
• Provide extended-level technical support and timely assistance to database management system clients.
• Provide information and comprehensive proposals to support development, monitoring, and maintenance of IT tactical plans aligned with organizational goals.
• Lead, mentor, and transfer knowledge to a small group of professionals.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for database system design and changes, including somewhat complex work.
• Contribute work products to IT departmental goals and objectives.
• Assume on-call and emergency response tasks as necessary.
• Perform other job-related duties within the scope of responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior