Database Administrator

• Design and implement secure, scalable, multi-tenant database architectures for healthcare SaaS applications
• Develop data models and storage solutions for sensitive healthcare data (PHI, PII/PPI)
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, and other relevant regulations
• Implement data encryption (at rest and in transit), masking, and access controls
• Architect systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and auditability
• Define and enforce data governance, retention, and audit logging policies
• Optimize database performance for large-scale healthcare datasets and real-time access
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to meet regulatory requirements
• Lead data migration and integration with EHR/EMR systems and third-party healthcare platforms
• Comply best practices for secure CI/CD pipelines involving database changes
• Monitor systems for data integrity, breaches, and anomalous access patterns

Senior Staff Database Architect

• As the Platform Database Administrator (DBA) for Aurora, serve as the architectural and operational anchor for high-scale database environments.
• Bridge the gap between technical data layers and production feature engineering.
• Take full ownership of database performance tuning, optimization strategies, and system reliability across core software suites.
• Sustain consistent system performance and reliability across 400+ database schemas, managing comprehensive schema migrations and tracking client-specific data growth metrics.
• Supervise AWS Aurora-specific environments, orchestrating cluster endpoint routing configurations, managing failover behaviors, executing parameter tuning, and troubleshooting data warehouse / read replica lags.
• Apply deep knowledge of InnoDB core internals to manage lock behaviors, resolve complex lock contentions, adjust buffer pool parameters, and systematically reduce purge lags across write-heavy database clusters.
• Diagnose and optimize heavy database pipelines utilizing INSERT...SELECT queries and computed-table patterns.
• Analyze Aurora instance utilization models against pricing factors to right-size compute resources and minimize I/O waste stemming from unoptimized queries.

Platform Database Administrator, Aurora/MySQL

• Assist in managing AWS RDS instances by monitoring database health, identifying performance issues, and participating in root-cause investigations
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to ensure 24/7 database availability and rapid response to production incidents across our global infrastructure
• Execute quarterly patching, monthly index reviews, and backup integrity testing within a live production environment
• Advance your T-SQL knowledge by participating in code reviews and assisting Developer and TechOps teams with query optimization and execution
• Utilize Python, PowerShell, and other scripting languages to build or maintain automation tools (e.g., AWS Lambdas, GitHub Action workflows, etc.)
• Manage user permissions, SOPs, and disaster recovery runbooks while helping ensure regulatory framework compliance (including HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC2) across all database systems

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