Database Administrator Iii - Remote, Canada - Policy Reporter

Description

This is a dynamic opportunity to join a rapidly growing Vancouver-based company, with industry leading software and services in the healthcare space.

Policy Reporter provides a portfolio of offerings designed to redefine the way medical manufacturing companies receive and react to relevant information in the market.

Our core offerings include a SaaS based platform hosting a database of the latest medical information, as well as custom projects to suit our clients' needs by leveraging our industry experience with private medical and government institutions.

Our clients include Fortune 10 companies in the healthcare field, as well as an array of Fortune 500 companies within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms internationally.

About the Team:

As a team we are making significant investments into our tech stack by improving our data structures, increasing automation, scalability, and software quality.

We have a challenging problem of building a comprehensive database of payer policy data and keeping it up to date.

Our Culture:

At Policy Reporter, people are the heart of our company.

We foster an environment that promotes diversity and inclusion, and believe in a culture that supports open communication, continuous learning, innovation, and team collaboration.

We create opportunities for employees to thrive both personally and professionally and work together with them to carve out their career path and future with the Company.

Our employees work hard and are empowered to take on challenges head-on by being flexible and ready for change. We're focused on delivering great work with great people.

At Policy Reporter, you will be able to do what you love, be yourself, and impact the lives of millions of patients.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to the team.

Including, but not limited to:
query performance tuning assistance, database handling best practices and explanation of advanced features, guidance and recommendations to the management team

• Work with Engineering and management to identify and resolve database performance issues as they arise, and make recommendations for improvements
• Proactively identify database performance impediments and resolve them by proposing and delivering changes to the codebase
• Contribute to projects to achieve project goals and consult with other project teams and departments to share best practices and other knowledge
• Work towards departmental goals and objectives like improving accuracy of technical project estimates, improving database resiliency, reliability, scalability and performance
• As a project's technical lead, collaborate with teams outside of Engineering to ensure that all stakeholders understand project goals, requirements and realistic timelines

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience supporting, tuning and administering PostgreSQL databases
• Expert level knowledge of PostgreSQL, its query planner, query profiling, benchmarking and performance tuning, connection pooling/pgpool
• Experience with distributed systems, database partitioning, replication and sharding
• Experience with building and maintaining high availability architecture
• Experience with AWS Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL
• Experience in various data systems (relational databases, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, BI systems) and migrating data across multiple systems
• Experience working with large datasets — tens or hundreds of millions of rows
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
• Great communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to learn quickly using both internal and external resources

Good to have:

• Experience with different database technologies such as NoSQL and OLAP, TimescaleDB or other TSDBs
• Experience with other AWS services such as S3/Glacier, Athena, RedShift
• Experience with building data ETL pipelines
• Experience with Splunk and SPL
• Experience with load testing, stress/fatigue testing

What we offer...

• Healthy work/life balance
• Competitive compensation package including companypaid extended health benefits and Employee Assistance Program, paidtime off, paid volunteer leave
• Employermatching Group RRSP
• Excellent opportunities for personal and career development
• Tuition Assistance
• Collaborative and supportive Company culture with fun teambuilding activities

Policy Reporter's Core Values:

• Excellence
• Value & Respect
• Continuous Learning
• Ownership & Accountability
• Teamwork

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
$95,000.00-$120,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care
• Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• Day shift

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