Remote Database Administrator – Health Data Platform

Smile Digital Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work Environment

Flexible Time Away From Work Policy

Competitive Salary and Health/Medical

RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution

Life and Disability

Employee Assistance Program

FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft

Super HAPI Fun Club

Job summary

Smile Digital Health in the United States seeks a skilled Database Administrator to ensure quality and performance of data stores across clients and partners. You will optimize data management, design schemas, and advise development teams on best practices.

Responsibilities include SQL tuning, data migrations, and collaborating with multiple teams to maintain secure, scalable data platforms. This role offers remote-friendly work options and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or related field with 5–10 years in database administration.
• Extensive experience with Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Snowflake or Redshift data warehousing experience is a plus.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to tune queries for performance.
• Cloud DB experience (AWS RDS, Azure PostgreSQL) with multi-region replication.
• Excellent communication and attention to detail; knowledge of data warehousing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform database capacity planning, installation, configuration, design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, backups and recovery.
• Provide best practices to development teams on database implementation and maintenance.
• Contribute to deployment, maintenance, and support of data systems for projects.
• Write and tune SQL queries and review schema designs for performance.
• Plan and execute data migrations for large datasets and monitor data ops.
• Track billable hours and report in Netsuite; ensure proper project management documentation.
• Collaborate across Core Development, Managed Services, partners and customers.

Skills

Relational & Non-Relational DBs

SQL & query tuning

Cloud DBs (AWS RDS, Azure PostgreSQL)

Data modeling

Database performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Oracle

MS SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Snowflake

Redshift

Kafka

Eventhubs

ActiveMQ

AWS

Azure

Job description

Smile Digital Health in the United States seeks a skilled Database Administrator to ensure quality and performance of data stores across clients and partners. You will optimize data management, design schemas, and advise development teams on best practices.

Responsibilities include SQL tuning, data migrations, and collaborating with multiple teams to maintain secure, scalable data platforms. This role offers remote-friendly work options and competitive compensation.