Database Administrator

Health Standards Organization (HSO); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Database Administrator to manage and optimize their database systems. This role involves ensuring system integrity, performance, and compliance while collaborating with various teams. The position offers a hybrid work model and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Professional development support

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in database administration.
• Hands-on experience with ETL processes and data documentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize corporate database systems.
• Ensure system integrity and compliance with security standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain data quality.

Skills

Database Administration

Performance Monitoring

Query Optimization

Data Lifecycle Management

Security Audits

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technology

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

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Terms: 7 months contract (Contract ends December 2025, with possibility for extension)

Salary: Commensurate with Experience

Location: Ottawa (Hybrid Work Model)

About The Role

The Database Administrator is a key member of the Global Digital Services team, reporting to the Director, Applications & Shared Services. This Database Administrator role will manage and optimize our corporate database systems to support the ICHSC program as part our work with the Ontario Ministry of Health to deliver quality assurance programs enhancing patient safety.

The Database Administrator will ensure the health, performance, and evolution of our database systems, providing advice and guidance to team members and key stakeholders. You will be responsible for maintaining system integrity, ensuring security compliance, automating routine tasks, and modernizing our data landscape to better serve our internal and external stakeholders. The Database Administrator will also collaborate and advise in the development of functional requirements and strategies related to the provincial program.

Main Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating Microsoft SQL Server environments, ensuring system health, performance optimization, and adherence to governance standards.
• Managing backups, restores, database integrity checks, and disaster recovery protocols.
• Monitoring performance indicators, executing index maintenance, and fine-tuning queries for optimal performance.
• Participating in ETL processes, handling data extraction, transformation, and loading.
• Developing documentation such as data dictionaries to standardize data definitions across systems.
• Contributing to special projects, including the development of data anonymization functionality to enable safe use of rich datasets in development and testing environments.
• Assisting with the sunsetting of legacy databases and collaborating on strategies for technical debt reduction across our data assets.
• Conducting database-level security audits and assisting in implementing measures to strengthen data protection and compliance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional Scrum teams, business stakeholders, and IT Operations to maintain data quality, security, and system reliability.
• Upholding data governance practices in accordance with relevant legislation (e.g., Privacy Act, PIPEDA) and industry standards (e.g., ISO 8000).
  
  

Must Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in database administration.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with database structures, data lifecycle management, and backup/recovery strategies.
• Hands on experience supporting ETL processes and developing data documentation.
• Proven skills in performance monitoring, query optimization, and database automation.
• Strong familiarity with database security best practices and conducting security audits.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or a related field is an asset.
• Comfortable with Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating with technical and business teams.
• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to translate technical concepts to our clients.
  
  

What You Can Expect

In Your First 30-90 Days:

• Complete our orientation program with other new hires to learn about HSO, our values of trust, inclusion, collaboration, innovation and learning, and our mission of quality improvement in healthcare and social services.
• Set your performance and learning objectives for the year in collaboration with your people manager.
• Meet regularly with your people manager to discuss your learning progression and alignment for your accountabilities.
• Take on assigned initiatives or projects for your role.
  
  

What We Can Offer You

• Hybrid work model.
• Professional development support.
  
  

Who We Are And What We Do

Health Standards Organization (HSO) and our affiliates Accreditation Canada (AC) and the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH) are global, not-for-profit organizations. Together, we develop standards and deliver assessment programs and quality improvement solutions that have been adopted in over 14,000 locations across five continents.Our people-centred programs and services have been setting the bar for quality across the health ecosystem for 65 years.

Join us toward a future that will lead to “Safer Care and A Healthier World.” Let’s follow a mission together, where we “empower and enable people around the world to continuously improve quality of care.”

HSO is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, diversity, equity and access, where all employees feel respected and valued and have an equal opportunity to achieve success. We encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, people from diverse races, ethnicities and/or religions, persons with disabilities, people from gender diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please let us know how we can support you throughout the recruiting process, including through the provision of accommodations on request.

We are also proud to have been named as one of the Top 100 National Capital Region’s Top Employers in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We are equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principles of Employment Equity. We encourage qualified applications from all genders, including visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with disabilities. We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please email HR at [e-mail]. For any queries related to recruitment please email at [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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