Req: Immediate Need Sr. Oracle Application DBA, Greenville, SC
Ramesh Gude
Position: Sr. Oracle Application DBA
Location: Greenville, SC
Duration: 12 Months+
This position will provide Senior Application Database Management for a large high profile project whose team brings significant experience along with an "entrepreneurial" or "start-up" attitude. The project will use modern strategies, and the team cultivates "thought leadership" for Medicaid eligibility systems and general health information technology. The position will focus on Application DBA task such as queries, performance tuning, indexing, and data model.
The Senior Application Data Base Administrator is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum/sprint teams)and with the Clemson Oracle Administrators to provide Senior Application Data Base Administrative support for the implementation of IBM's Curam Social Industry Platform. The Senior Application DBA will be responsible for providing leadership in the implementation of the Curam data model and preparing the solution for operations. The Senior Application DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects.
Duties include:
• Day-to-day data model oversight.
• Developing a governance strategy to ensure
consistent, sustainable, and scalable data model changes, with a focus on
retaining the ability to easily update the Curam platform to future versions.
• Advising development and product teams on best
approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.
• Hands-on Oracle development and application in
ways that is consistent with the Curam framework and Oracle best practices.
• Collaboration with Clemson’s Oracle
administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases and the
development of operations procedures for database management.
• Developing and executing a data migration plan
from the existing Medicaid Eligibility Determination System (MEDS) systems
(custom built mainframe application with IDMS-R datastore).
• Coordinating with outside entities, including
vendors for other systems/services, providers, professional associations, and
other State agencies.
• Other duties as assigned.
Clemson is seeking a Senior Oracle professional with the knowledge and experience along with comparable communication and interpersonal skills to enable success on this high-visibility project.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
The Senior Application DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.
• Proven Oracle DBA experience in managing and
supporting enterprise applications environments.
• Demonstrated success in supporting a
development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using Oracle as the
database.
• Understanding of IT development and
implementation projects.
• Understanding of database scalability and
operations.
• Project planning experience, including effort
estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.
• Strong written and oral communications skills,
including the ability to give presentations to project management. Strong
proficiency in English is required.
• Impeccable integrity. This project will have
very high visibility and will impact significant expenditures of public funds.
Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and
the courage to speak out when necessary.
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage
with people and organizations on a continuous basis.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- IBM Curam framework experience
- Experience with Oracle production environment tools such as RAC and Oracle security modules.
- Healthcare industry experience and/or experience managing PHI/PII data
- Medicaid eligibility system/business operations experience.
- Vendor management experience
- Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)
experience
Medicaid operations experience. - Public sector experience is a plus.
The candidate should possess the following skills:
- Proven Oracle DBA experience;
- Demonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using Oracle as the database;
- Understanding of IT development and implementation projects;
- Project planning experience.
Preferred skills:
- IBM Curam Framework experience;
- Experience with Oracle production environment tools;
- Healthcare Industry Experience;
- Medicaid Eligibility system/business operations experience;
- Vendor Management experience.
Best Regards,