Description

Job Title: Database Administrator
Department: Data - Analytics

About the Role:

As a Database Administrator, you will be a key contributor to optimizing database operations, enhancing performance, and ensuring the stability and security of our data environment. You’ll be part of a highly visible team within a rapidly growing company that is innovating healthcare. You’ll take ownership of installing, upgrading, and maintaining critical database applications while actively monitoring and improving the health and efficiency of our databases. You will drive collaboration across engineering, data science, and analytics teams, providing support in data refreshes, SQL tuning, and best practices. We’re looking for a resourceful, mission-driven individual who excels in ambiguity, is biased towards action, and brings a relentless drive to solve complex challenges in healthcare. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with leadership, contribute to substantial company growth, and make a real impact on patient outcomes by addressing inefficiencies in the US healthcare system.

You Are:

Comfortable with ambiguity and biased towards action. You can identify the 20% of the work that leads to 80% of the result, and mobilize and execute the high-impact work consistently. You enjoy thinking about complex and ambiguous problems and can execute consistently and add compounding value.
Relentlessly resourceful. You enjoy taking ownership and can get things done without excuses. You are resilient, detail-oriented, and truly believe that no task is beneath you, even in the face of potential challenges.
Growth-oriented. You are able to evaluate all perspectives, even if uncomfortable, and have the courage to adjust your views if necessary. You have the expertise and communication skills to balance a growth mindset with a bias towards action.
Mission-driven. You are excited by the prospect of diving into complex problems that will drastically improve patient outcomes, while lowering the cost of a tremendously inefficient US healthcare system, where waste is over 40% and per-capita healthcare dollars spent is double that of other developed nations.

What you’ll do:

Install, upgrade, patch, and manage database applications
Proactively monitor the health of enterprise databases and make recommendations based on best practices to optimize performance and efficiency
Maintain data integrity, database performance, security, stability and scalability
Manage backup, restore, and archival procedures following enterprise backup strategy
Diagnose and resolve issues related to database performance, job failures, replication, and service availability
Comply with database security standards
Provide support to developers, engineers, data analysts, data scientists, including, but not limited to data refreshes, SQL performance tuning and best practice recommendations
Automate database administration and maintenance activities
Recommend and implement emerging database technologies
Be available for on-call support
Analyze and document data workflow, scheduled jobs, stored procedures, packages etc.

The Opportunity:

Join a team with extremely high visibility
Startup-like mentality and career trajectory in a recently IPO’d company (>4B market cap)
Work closely with highly collaborative leadership teams across multiple business units within managed care

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree required in computer science, computer information systems, or related field
3-5+ years of database administration
Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Experience with one or more cloud data platforms like Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Databricks, MongoDB Atlas
Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, Databricks) a plus
Working knowledge with programming or scripting languages such as Visual Basic, PowerShell, Python, SQL
Experience configuring backups and restoring data, troubleshooting database/host performance issues, and managing/maintain a relational database management system
Self-driven and ability to meet goals and deadlines
Strong written and oral communication skills
Healthcare experience a plus

Who We Are:

Astrana Health (NASDAQ: ASTH) is a physician-centric, technology-powered healthcare management company. We are building and operating a novel, integrated, value-based healthcare delivery platform to empower our physicians to provide the highest quality of end-to-end care for their patients in a cost-effective manner. Our mission is to combine our clinical experience, best-in-class delivery network, and technological expertise to improve patient outcomes, increase access to healthcare, and make the US healthcare system more efficient.

Our platform currently empowers over 10,000 physicians to provide care for over 1 million patients nationwide. Our rapid growth and unique position at the intersection of all major healthcare stakeholders (payer, provider, and patient) gives us an unparalleled opportunity to combine clinical and technological expertise to improve patient outcomes, increase access to quality healthcare, and reduce the waste in the US healthcare system.

Our Values:

Put Patients First
Empower Entrepreneurial Provider and Care Teams
Operate with Integrity & Excellence
Be Innovative
Work As One Team

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

This position is remotely based in the U.S.
The target pay range for this role is between $90,000 - $125,000. This salary expectation represents our national target range for this role.

Astrana Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability, please email us at humanresourcesdept@astranahealth.com to request an accommodation.

Additional Information:

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

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