Sr. Database Administrator

Job title: Sr. Database Administrator

About the Role

The Waltz Health Sr. Database Administrator’s primary role is to oversee database performance, perform maintenance, and provide operational database services for our organization. The role also includes owning, tracking, and resolving database-related incidents and requests, performing performance tuning, and writing code for database access, modifications, and constructions including stored procedures, views, and triggers. It also covers oversight of database security and data integration work for Engineering Enablement, including data modeling and maintaining Waltz Health Microsoft Azure database environments.

What You'll Do

• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud database architectures employing database and data lake technologies.

• Manage, support, and maintain database technologies (Postgres and Snowflake) and infrastructure.

• Maintain database configurations and designs.

• Implement/Support databases, storage structures, replication, hyperscale, clusters, logical partitioning, and disaster recovery solutions.

• Work in the Azure environment.

• Provide DBA support for enterprise monitoring, backup, alerting, and security compliance solutions for database servers.

• Perform data analysis to uncover issues and solve problems spanning multiple systems.

• Commit to continuous improvement in data management, quality, and accessibility.

• Consult with information security engineers to align database service support with security requirements.

• Collaborate with business application engineering to expand and enhance database-related services.

• Ensure data management solutions meet technical and functional/non-functional requirements.

• Own diagnosis and resolution of applications and database-related issues.

• Provide thought leadership in advancing data technology strategies.

• Proactively deploy solutions that improve data quality.

• What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technology field.

• 5-7 years of DBA experience with Snowflake and PostgreSQL.

• Expertise in writing complex stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers.

• Strong experience with clustering, data synchronization, encryption, partitioning, performance, and security in database technologies.

• Solid knowledge of Microsoft/Azure database management and performance utilities.

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills; fast learner, hardworking, and a good team player.