Database Administrator 1/2/3

State of Alaska; Juneau (AK); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible telework options

Continuous learning (Pluralsight, MS培训

National community of practice

Job summary

State of Alaska seeks a Database Administrator at levels 1–3 to lead health data pipelines, model design, and BI reporting. This role focuses on integrating data from EHRs and surveillance platforms, collaborating with health programs to deliver scalable data solutions.

The successful candidate will modernize data infrastructure with governance and cloud-first practices while supporting statewide decision-making through advanced analytics.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing health data models and pipelines.
• Strong SQL/DB design and data governance knowledge.
• Proficiency with Power BI, DAX, and data visualization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and optimization of enterprise health data pipelines and databases.
• Architect and maintain Power BI semantic models and dashboards for statewide decisions.
• Integrate data from diverse sources into cohesive structures for analytics.
• Partner with program staff to translate workflows into technical requirements.
• Drive modernization of data infrastructure with cloud-first design standards.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL/DB design

Power BI

Cloud design

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Power BI

DAX

ETL tools

Job description

Database Administrator 1/2/3 (Health Data Solutions Architect - PCN 168015)

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

This position will be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 level, depending on the applicant's qualifications and job experience.

This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate.

What you will be doing:

• Lead design, development, and optimization of enterprise health data pipelines, models, and databases that support public health programs and CDC Data Modernization Initiative priorities.
• Architect and maintain advanced Power BI semantic models, DAX calculations, dashboards, and automated report delivery systems for statewide decision-makers.
• Integrate data from diverse systems—including EHRs, vital records, surveillance platforms, and registries—into cohesive, high-quality structures that improve access, analytics, and interoperability.
• Partner with program staff to translate complex public health workflows into technical requirements and deliver scalable, reliable data solutions.
• Drive modernization of departmental data infrastructure by implementing best-practice engineering, governance, security, and cloud-first design standards across the enterprise.

Job Description

Welcome to the Department of Health!

Our organization, mission, and culture: The Department of Health's (DOH) mission is to promote the health, well-being, and self-sufficiency of Alaskans. Our vision is to have interoperable information systems, tools, and standards that provide timely, reliable, and consistent information. Guided by principles of integrity, reliability, transparency, trust, and consistency, we aim to leverage modern data technologies to ensure our department's health initiatives are informed by accurate and accessible data, thus enhancing the health of Alaskans and their communities.

The benefits of joining our team:

• Work with modern data platforms and engineering tools while contributing to statewide CDC Data Modernization Initiative projects that directly improve public health.
• Enjoy flexible work scheduling and telework options that support balance and autonomy.
• Join a collaborative team that empowers independent decision-making and values technical leadership.
• Access continuous learning opportunities, including enterprise subscriptions to Pluralsight, Microsoft training, and national communities of practice.
• Make a meaningful impact by helping modernize Alaska’s health data systems and enabling better insights, faster decisions, and stronger outcomes for communities statewide.

The working environment you can expect:

This position is located at 350 Main Street in Juneau, with optional work sites in Anchorage or Fairbanks. The daily environment is collaborative, technical, and forward-looking, where you’ll provide data solutions across diverse public health programs and help strengthen Alaska’s statewide data infrastructure.

Who we are looking for:

Applies Technology to Tasks: Selects and understands procedures, machines, or tools that will produce the desired results; identifies or solves problems in machines, computers, or other technologies as they are related to performing tasks.

Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.

Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort; including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).

Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Database Administrator 1

• Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Data Management: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and tools of data management, such as modeling techniques, data backup, data recovery, data dictionaries, data warehousing, data mining, data archiving, data disposal, and data standardization processes.
• Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Learning: Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
• Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.

Database Administrator 2

• Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
• Data Systems: Knowledge of computer hardware and software development and systems as they apply to the conception, specification, analysis, planning, development, installation, test, modification and use of data handling and computing systems in support of aerospace flight and ground systems.
• Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.

Database Administrator 3

• Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
• Database Management Systems: Knowledge of the uses of database management systems and software to control the organization, storage, retrieval, security, and integrity of data.
• Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, and confidentiality and integrity.
• Information Technology Architecture: Knowledge of architectural methodologies used in the design and development of information systems, including the physical structure of a system's internal operations and interactions with other systems.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training and/or education in computer science, software engineering, database administration, data analysis, information technology, or similar area or experience in computer programming, designing database queries, data analysis, and/or database administration.

Special Note:

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

“Training” and “education” are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Additional Required Information

At the time of the interview, please provide the following:

• Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
• Current performance evaluation, if available.
• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.

FLEXIBLY STAFFED

The full range of salaries is listed above. The starting salary will be determined by the position level. If filled at a lower level, promotion to the higher level will only occur upon successful completion of the probationary period and the required training, provided the applicant meets the minimum qualifications of the higher job class and receives final approval from the supervisor.

EDUCATION

To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. Work experience may not be used to determine minimum qualifications for the position you are applying for.

WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll-free) or [phone] if you are in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to [e-mail].

EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal‑opportunity employer.

Contact Information

For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:
Name/Title: Victoria Backa, Data Modernization Director
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Phone [phone] (Statewide toll‑free number)
[phone] (Juneau and out-of-state callers)

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate. Please select the location(s) you are willing to be considered for. There is one (1) position to be filled.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES

This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.