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Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work? Position Description: Job Summary:The Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for maintaining, creating and monitoring database systems across multiple platforms. The Senior DBA troubleshoots issues, provides on call support, provides ongoing database support, performs database upgrades and database deployments to meet all clinical and business requirements of the organization and end-users. Accountabilities:• Performs and participates in activities that ensure database systems are fully recoverable, secure, performing and stable. • Performs and participates in monitoring, maintaining a high degree of performance and availability, coordinating system behaviors, utilizing existing tools and creating new methods for managing multiple environments.• Actively consults with other team members to ensure successful project implementations and system availability. • Supports projects and key activities related to the database infrastructure and works with other key IS stakeholders and team leaders to coordinate necessary resources, outline action plans and make final development decisions.• Delivers solutions in line with user expectations as per defined requirements.• Researches and analyzes data in support of troubleshooting production issues.• Coordinates with other DBAs and users for resolution.• In collaboration with management, guides, educates, and supports other team member to meet these same goals.• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization Minimum Requirements: Required Education and Experience:• Bachelor's Degree required• Current Internal Penn Medicine Information Services division employees may be considered with proof of active and continued enrollment in an approved bachelor degree program• 5+ years of professional experience in database administration and data architecture required• 5+ years of professional experience with database programming languages required• Experience with Cloud technologies preferredRequired Skills and Abilities:• Demonstrated customer service skills required• Demonstrated interpersonal/verbal communication skills required• Ability to communicate technical information and ideas required• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff required• Demonstrated problem solving skills required • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work in a team environment as well as work independently required• Ability to implement process improvements preferred• Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare operations and data structures and the use of information systems applications in the practicing healthcare environment preferred• Demonstrated success in coordinating the activities and deliverables of project teams preferred Additional Information: As part of our COVID-19 response, this position may currently be offering partial or full remote work. However, in the near future this position will require full or partial on-site work.Be a part of the exciting and ground-breaking upcoming years for the Penn Medicine Information Services department!Because growth is essential to continuing to meet the current and future needs of patients, Penn Medicine continues to expand its capabilities. Penn Medicine's Information Services (IS) Department focuses its efforts on the clinical and financial systems that support the day-to-day operations of six (6) hospitals, several satellite practices, and more than 8,923 physicians. Learn more about Information Services We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.Penn Medicine http://www.pennmedicine.org/careers/ Live Your Life's Work We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.Vacancy expired!