Healthcare IT DBA Engineer

UnitedHealth Group; Letterkenny; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Optum in Ireland, part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a skilled Health IT DBA Engineer to design, secure, and monitor databases in a healthcare setting. The role requires on-call support, ETL, data warehousing, and regulatory compliance while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

You will work with SQL Server, SSIS, Oracle, and Microsoft technologies to optimize performance, implement backups, and develop maintenance procedures in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Must be proficient in the following platforms - Microsoft and Oracle (Microsoft proficiency is a must)
• Extensive experience in SQL stored procedures and SSIS package development
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting abilities
• Solid communication skills with a collaborative and proactive approach to teamwork
• Dedicated, self-motivated, flexible, and self-directed with a strong work ethic
• Willingness and ability to provide 24x7 on-call support as part of a rotation
• Microsoft SQL Server DBA Certification (MCSA)

Responsibilities

• Design, create, and maintain databases
• Ensuring data security and integrity - applying security patches on schedule or when requested/required
• Backing up and restoring databases, as well as implementing and using failover procedures
• Ensure ETL jobs are run and finish correctly; troubleshoot and run fix executions needed when there are issues
• Monitoring, tuning, and optimizing database for performance - know how to use the SHOWPLAN run execution cost analysis tool to optimize queries
• Identifying and resolving database-related issues
• Data warehouse management
• Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL stored procedures to support data integration and reporting requirements
• Design and manage complex SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages for automated data workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze SQL server requirements
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, providing critical support and ensuring prompt resolution of urgent system issues
• Document processes, create detailed technical specifications, and provide knowledge transfer to team members
• Work off a ticketing system to track issues and requests
• Possesses a strong understanding of both technical and business needs related to healthcare

Skills

SQL

SSIS

Oracle

MS SQL Server

On-call rotation

Communication

Problem solving

MCSA

Education

Undergraduate degree

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

HTML

Linux

UNIX

Job description

Optum intro standard Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a highly skilled and certified Health IT DBA Engineer to maintain, secure, and monitor database in a healthcare environment. This includes the skills for operating databases and ensuring the data is correctly stored and retrieved. A DBA works with others to ensure standards and best practices are followed, maintain a flexible schedule to implement fixes and upgrades at various times during the day or night, including some weekends, along with a commitment to 24x7 on-call support.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, create, and maintain databases

• Ensuring data security and integrity - applying security patches on schedule or when requested/required

• Backing up and restoring databases, as well as implementing and using failover procedures

• Ensure ETL jobs are run and finish correctly; troubleshoot and run fix executions needed when there are issues

• Monitoring, tuning, and optimizing database for performance - know how to use the SHOWPLAN run execution cost analysis tool to optimize queries

• Identifying and resolving database-related issues

• Ensuring data is synchronized correctly between databases

• Developing database maintenance procedures

• Managing user access to databases

• Data warehouse management

• Ensuring compliance with relevant data protection laws and regulations

• Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL stored procedures to support data integration and reporting requirements

• Design and manage complex SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages for automated data workflows

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze SQL server requirements

• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, providing critical support and ensuring prompt resolution of urgent system issues

• Document processes, create detailed technical specifications, and provide knowledge transfer to team members

• Work off a ticketing system to track issues and requests

• Possesses a strong understanding of both technical and business needs related to healthcare

Primary Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• Must be proficient in the following platforms - Microsoft and Oracle (Microsoft proficiency is a must)

• Extensive experience in SQL stored procedures and SSIS package development

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting abilities

• Solid communication skills with a collaborative and proactive approach to teamwork

• Dedicated, self-motivated, flexible, and self-directed with a strong work ethic

• Willingness and ability to provide 24x7 on-call support as part of a rotation

• Microsoft SQL Server DBA Certification (MCSA)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with additional healthcare best practices, tools and standards.

• Solid knowledge of healthcare Epic standards and data modules - Caboodle, Clarity, Slicer Dicer, and Epic Radar

• Clarity and Cogito Administrator Certification

• Experience in mentoring junior team members or collaborating with a number of different healthcare systems across the US

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

• Several years of experience in data engineering, IT support or systems administration

• Proficiency in SQL, SSIS, HTML, and software engineering principles

• Working knowledge of Linux, Oracle, Microsoft Access and UNIX systems

• Familiarity with programming languages API or scripting languages

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.