Senior Database Developer

Symbiotic Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbiotic Digital in Canada is seeking an experienced Senior Database Developer to support the design, development, enhancement, and sustainment of large-scale health information systems and related applications. You will provide technical expertise across databases, data management, integration, and production support within a complex enterprise.

The role is hybrid, with on-site work as required by project needs, and offers opportunities to influence architecture and data quality across

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale public-sector healthcare IT initiatives.
• Integrating clinical information systems, registries, and providers.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, governance, and PMI methods.
• Experience across SDLC, QA, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Healthcare data, immunization systems, and data quality emphasis.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and debug application enhancements and tools.
• Prepare programming specifications and translate to code.
• Design, develop, generate, and maintain code and unit tests.
• Perform proof-of-concept activities, performance testing, and tuning.
• Provide expertise across platforms, databases, middleware, and gateways.
• Support incident management, production sustainment, and documentation.
• Collaborate with QA for testing and integration activities.
• Maintain development environments and CI practices.
• Improve data quality, integrity, and accuracy across systems.
• Ensure availability and reliability of critical applications.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Public sector healthcare

PMI methodologies

SDLC

CI/CD & DevOps

Web services experience

Tools

Oracle 12c

PL/SQL

ETL tools

Data warehousing

RESTful APIs

HL7/FHIR

Unix/Linux scripting

Data integration tools

Web services

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Developer tosupport the design, development, enhancement, and sustainment of large-scalehealth information systems and associated applications. The successfulcandidate will provide technical expertise across application development,database technologies, systems integration, data management, and ongoingproduction support within a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop,test, and debug application enhancements and supporting tools.
  
• Conducttechnical analysis and prepare detailed programming specifications.
  
• Design,develop, generate, and maintain application code and unit tests.
  
• Translatetechnical specifications into fully functional and tested applications.
  
• Conductproof-of-concept activities, performance testing, and application tuning.
  
• Provideexpertise across computing platforms, operating systems, databases,communication protocols, middleware, and gateways.
  
• Performimpact analysis, effort estimation, solution design, and developmentrelated to application upgrades and new business requirements.
  
• Supportincident management, application sustainment, performance optimization,and technical documentation.
  
• Collaboratewith Quality Assurance teams to support testing and integrationactivities.
  
• Maintaindevelopment environments and support Continuous Integration (CI)practices.
  
• Improvedata quality, integrity, and accuracy across enterprise systems.
  
• Supportthe availability and reliability of critical public-facing applications.
  

Required Qualifications

Public Sector and Healthcare Experience

• Experienceworking with federal, provincial, or broader public-sector healthcareorganizations.
  
• Knowledgeof large-scale public-sector healthcare IT initiatives.
  
• Experienceintegrating clinical information systems, including client and providerregistries.
  
• Knowledgeof enterprise architecture frameworks, documentation standards, andgovernance processes.
  
• Familiaritywith Project Management Institute (PMI) methodologies and practices.
  
• Experienceworking within structured project delivery and systems developmentmethodologies.
  

Technical Skills

Minimum 10 years of experience with:

• Oracle12c database design and development for OLTP and OLAP applications.
  
• PL/SQLdevelopment including stored procedures, packages, functions, triggers,ref cursors, dynamic SQL, and database utilities.
  
• Databasearchitecture, data modeling, normalization, and denormalizationtechniques.
  
• AdvancedSQL development and query optimization.
  
• Datawarehouse design and development.
  
• Databaseperformance tuning and automation.
  
• Unix/Linuxshell scripting.
  
• ETLdevelopment and data integration tools.
  
• Reportingand dashboard development tools.
  
• JSON,XML, APIs, and RESTful web services.
  
• HL7and FHIR healthcare integration standards.
  
• Healthcaredata and immunization-related systems.
  

Core Skills and Experience

Minimum 10 years of experience with:

• Translating business requirements into technical solution designs.
  
• Designingand developing large-scale, mission-critical applications.
  
• Web-basedapplications, microservices architecture, mobile applications, andcommercial off-the-shelf solutions.
  
• Technicalleadership and solution recommendation activities.
  
• UserInterface (UI) design principles and implementation.
  
• Technicalanalysis, coding, testing, and application support.
  
• Systemdesign documentation and technical specifications.
  
• Technicalevaluations, gap analysis, and integration assessments.
  
• Healthcareand clinical systems development.
  
• Webperformance optimization.
  
• Multiplecomputing platforms, operating systems, databases, and middlewaretechnologies.
  
• Productionsupport, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
  
• Accessibilitystandards including WCAG and related compliance requirements.
  
• SoftwareDevelopment Lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• ContinuousIntegration (CI) and DevOps practices.
  
• Modernapplication security, privacy, usability, and design principles.
  

General Skills

• Strongleadership and people management capabilities.
  
• Excellentanalytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  
• Strongwritten, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
  
• Proventroubleshooting and critical-thinking abilities.
  
• Strongstakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
  
• Excellentcustomer service and consulting skills.
  
• Highlyorganized with strong multitasking capabilities.
  
• Detail-oriented,adaptable, and collaborative team player.
  
• Abilityto manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
  

Work Arrangement

• Hybridrole with onsite presence required (5 days onsite as required by projectneeds)
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need thatsolve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can dofor you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digitalprovides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staffneeded to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the mostreputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help themstaff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by ourproven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100%Indigenous owned company.