CL - Database Administrator - Project Lead

Job Description: Max Budgeted Bill Rate: NA

Notes to recruiters:
Previous experience in health care related information technology insurance information technology Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) Medicaid eligibility or social services eligibility while not absolutely necessary will be helpful.
This position requires excellent communications skills including effective oral and written communication. If a vendor finds it necessary to substantially revise a candidate s resume or add additional or clarifying information at the top of the candidate s resume then the resume is not yet ready for submission and the candidate will likely not be a good fit.
Resumes limited to 24 pages

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
Various existing solutions plus new development in support of the State of South Carolina s Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).

DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Oracle DBA is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum/sprint teams) and with the Clemson Oracle Database Administrators to provide Senior Oracle DBA support for numerous application and infrastructure databases.

Duties include:
Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and/or changes.
Handson Oracle development and application support in ways that are consistent with Oracle best practices.
Collaboration with Clemson s Oracle database administration team to maintain test staging production databases and the development of operations procedures for database management.
Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.
Coordinating with outside entities including vendors for other systems/services providers professional associations and other State agencies.
Analyze Oracle performance data recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.
Participate in a 24x7 oncall support rotation.
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 highvisibility project.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
The Senior Oracle DBA role has four major attributes: software development leadership project management skills people skills and domain knowledge in enterprise class multitier webbased application development projects. Candidates must display excellence in all areas.

Proven Oracle DBA experience in supporting enterprise applications in Linux environments preferably Redhat or Oracle Linux.
Experience with Oracle Data Guard
Demonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily webbased 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):
Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Healthcare industry experience and/or experience managing PHI/PII data
Experience in data encryption and Oracle Net traffic encryption.
Vendor management experience.
Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience
Medicaid operations experience.
Public sector experience is a plus.

REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelors degree in a technical business or related field. Masters degree is desirable

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:
None required. Oracle training/certification from a recognized source is beneficial.
Additional Sills: Skills: Database Platforms Oracle 11G Yes 8 Advanced Currently Using 4 6 Years Database Platforms Oracle Active Data Guard Yes 7 Advanced Within 6 Months 4 6 Years Database Platforms Oracle Architecture Yes 8 Advanced Currently Using 4 6 Years Database Platforms Oracle 12 No 6 Intermediate Within 6 Months 2 4 Years ERP Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Yes 8 Advanced Currently Using 4 6 Years