Fellow Database Administrator

Boston Scientific Gruppe; Arden Hills, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific seeks a Fellow Database Administrator to lead Oracle and PostgreSQL strategies, ensuring reliability, security and performance for LATITUDE IT Operations. The role combines hands‑on skills with strategic modernization, including migrations to PostgreSQL on AWS RDS and automation via Unix/Linux scripting.

You will collaborate across cloud, application and infrastructure teams, advancing AI‑enabled capabilities while upholding governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of progressive database engineering and administration experience.
• Deep Oracle Database expertise with architecture and standards responsibilities.
• Strong PostgreSQL on AWS RDS experience and modernization focus.
• Unix/Linux scripting in Shell/Bash and Python; automation emphasis.
• Security, backup/recovery, high availability and disaster recovery mastery.
• Ability to define architecture across applications, infra and cloud.
• Excellent communication and cross‑functional influencing skills.
• Interest in AI capabilities for database architecture and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert Oracle DB administration for LATITUDE infrastructure and production systems.
• Own Oracle lifecycle: install, config, upgrades, patching, backup, DR, HA.
• Monitor health, capacity, SQL performance, and optimize resources.
• Troubleshoot incidents; perform root‑cause analysis and remediation.
• Hands‑on PostgreSQL admin for AWS RDS and future‑state planning.
• Lead Oracle→PostgreSQL migrations; plan, test, and execute upgrades.
• Develop Unix/Linux scripts to automate DB builds, deployments and ops.
• Apply AWS observability and IaC to improve reliability and repeatability.
• Evaluate AI capabilities for automation, performance and governance.
• Collaborate with app, infra, cloud and engineering teams on architecture.

Skills

Oracle Database

PostgreSQL

Unix/Linux

Shell/Bash

Python

Automation

Leadership

Communication

AWS

AWS RDS

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Create Alert

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit- High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high‑performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

Boston Scientific was recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work in 2026, ranking No. 15 on the Top 100 list, reflecting the culture our employees experience every day.

The Fellow Database Administrator - LATITUDE IT Operations will serve as a strategic technical leader and hands‑on database administrator responsible for the reliability, performance, security and evolution of the database platforms supporting LATITUDE, Boston Scientific's Remote Patient Monitoring system. Oracle Database administration is the primary focus of this role, supporting existing enterprise infrastructure and business‑critical production environments. PostgreSQL on AWS RDS is a key strategic capability supporting the team's future‑state architecture, modernization and migration roadmap.

This role combines deep Oracle expertise with the ability to shape the strategic transition toward future‑state architecture, including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS. The Fellow Database Administrator will troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root‑cause analysis, improve database performance and resiliency, and establish sustainable operational standards. Strong Unix/Linux and scripting capabilities are essential for automating database build, deployment, maintenance and support activities.

The role will also help advance AI‑enabled transformation by evaluating emerging capabilities that can improve database architecture, observability, automation, performance analysis and operational efficiency while maintaining appropriate security, reliability and governance.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide expert‑level administration and operational support for Oracle Database environments supporting existing LATITUDE infrastructure and business‑critical production systems.
• Own the Oracle database lifecycle, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, maintenance, backup and recovery, security, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Monitor and optimise Oracle database health, capacity, storage, availability, SQL performance and resource utilisation; proactively identify risks and implement sustainable improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex production database incidents and performance issues, perform root‑cause analysis and drive issues through resolution.
• Provide hands‑on PostgreSQL administration for AWS RDS and contribute to the architecture, operational readiness and support model for PostgreSQL as a strategic future‑state platform.
• Lead and support database modernisation initiatives, including assessment, planning, testing and execution of Oracle‑to‑PostgreSQL migrations, where appropriate.
• Develop Unix/Linux‑based scripts and automation using Shell/Bash, Python or comparable technologies to support database builds, deployments, configuration, patching, monitoring, maintenance, backup and recovery, and other repeatable infrastructure operations.
• Apply AWS database services, monitoring, automation and infrastructure‑as‑code practices to improve observability, reliability, repeatability and operational efficiency for PostgreSQL RDS environments.
• Evaluate and responsibly apply AI‑enabled database and infrastructure capabilities to enhance performance analysis, anomaly detection, operational automation, capacity planning and architectural decision‑making while aligning with enterprise security and governance practices.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud and engineering teams on database architecture, releases, capacity planning, troubleshooting and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain database documentation, support procedures, runbooks and technical standards while providing technical direction and mentoring team members in database operations and modernisation practices.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive database engineering and administration experience supporting complex, enterprise‑scale, business‑critical production environments, including demonstrated technical leadership and architectural responsibility.
• Deep Oracle Database expertise with the ability to define architecture, technical standards, and modernisation strategies for enterprise database platforms, in addition to hands‑on experience with installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, performance, security, high availability, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Demonstrated expertise troubleshooting complex production database issues, performing root‑cause analysis and resolving performance, availability, capacity and reliability problems.
• Strong hands‑on PostgreSQL administration expertise, including PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, with the ability to support its growth as a strategic future‑state database platform.
• Strong Unix/Linux and automation experience using Shell/Bash, Python, or comparable technologies, with the ability to define and advance automation strategies for database provisioning, deployment, configuration, observability, maintenance and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of database security, access management, roles, permissions, backup and recovery, and high‑availability practices for enterprise database platforms.
• Proven ability to define database architecture and technical direction across application, infrastructure, cloud, and engineering organisations, influencing deployment strategies, operational readiness and long‑term platform decisions.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across organisational boundaries, communicate complex architectural decisions to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and build alignment around strategic direction.
• Interest in and practical awareness of emerging AI capabilities related to database architecture, operations, automation, observability and performance optimisation, with an emphasis on responsible enterprise adoption.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing database modernisation strategies, including evaluating cloud‑native, managed, and containerised database technologies, modern deployment patterns, data lifecycle strategies, and opportunities to reduce infrastructure complexity and cost

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive Oracle Database expertise with demonstrated success modernising complex enterprise database environments and defining strategies to improve scalability, reliability, operational efficiency, and cost.
• Experience developing and leading Oracle-to-PostgreSQL or other database modernisation initiatives, including platform assessment, compatibility analysis, migration strategy, testing, cutover planning, risk management, and post‑migration optimisation.
• Experience advancing database deployment and infrastructure automation, including infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, Blue‑Green deployment strategies, and other modern database delivery patterns.
• Hands‑on administration of PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, including the use of AWS monitoring, automation, infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD practices in database environments.
• Experience evaluating and applying AI‑assisted database, cloud, and infrastructure capabilities to improve automation, observability, performance, troubleshooting, operational efficiency and architectural modernisation.
• Background supporting highly available, business‑critical systems in a regulated or medical device environment.
• Demonstrated success establishing database operational standards, improving support processes and mentoring technical team members.

Minimum Salary:$125800

Maximum Salary: $239000

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com— will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organisational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non‑exempt (hourly), non‑sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non‑sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long‑term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high‑performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn .

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centres, require acceptable proof of COVID‑19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID‑19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID‑19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety‑sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety‑sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement. The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.

Nearest Major Market: Minneapolis

Job Segment: DBA, Database, R&D Engineer, System Administrator, R&D, Technology, Engineering, Research