Database Administrator

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated "Database Administrator" for an opportunity in Multiple Locations.

Job Title: Database Administrator II
Contract Term: 6+ months
Work Arrangement: Remote(1 Day Onsite)

Work Location: Indianapolis, IN; Denison, TX; Baltimore, MD; Harrisburg, PA; Syracuse, NY; Portland, ME; Hingham, MA

Job description:

Responsibilities
* Responsible for the maintenance of production, test and development databases.
* Brings solid understanding of database administration.
* Supports development team from a database design and development perspective.
* Responsible for database administration or engineering activities, ensure optimal performance on PostgreSQL environments.
* Responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration, and integrity of PostgreSQL architecture.
* Performance tuning of the queries.
* Provide support to the application developers, including, but not limited to data refresh, SQL and PL/pgSQL performance tuning and best practice recommendations.
* Conduct code reviews with application developers.
* Ensure the long-term requirements of systems operations and administration are included in the overall database systems planning of the organization.
* Perform many related database functions across one or more teams, including designing, implementing, and maintaining new databases, backup/recovery and configuration management.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree
* 3+ years of experience as a DBA / developer for complex and high-volume data warehouse projects.
* AWS certification
* Strong PL/PGSQL or PL/SQL experience is a plus.
* Experience in PostgresSQL, AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL.
* Hands-on experience with Postgres database administration, performance tuning and production support in a high volume, customer-facing apps/environment.
* Data modeling experience
* Experience working in Agile/ Scrum programs with multi-disciplinary development teams
* Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
* Manages time extremely well, can quickly sense when issues need to be addressed
* Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion.
* ***Able to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation. ***

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with health IT systems with Electronic Data Interface (EDI) processing
* Experience with 270/271 transactions and/or other X12 data formats
* Experience with healthcare data, specifically Medicare/Medicaid
* 5+ years of experience as a DBA / developer for complex and high-volume data warehouse projects.

Work Schedule

• Standard work hours are Monday - Friday.
• They can flex starting as early as 7am and as late as 9am EST.
• Our releases happen off hours, after 6pm.
• So if there is a release to install during the week, it will happen after 6pm.
• Optionally, we may have to install releases over the weekend, which may require technical support to troubleshoot issues.
• On-call may happen at any time, depending on when issues arise

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 221403 when responding to this ad.

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