Senior Database Architect: Cloud, Security & Automation

Modivcare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Modivcare is seeking an experienced Database Administrator IV to ensure performance, security, and scalability of enterprise database platforms powering healthcare operations and analytics.

You will design and support database solutions across relational and NoSQL systems, with emphasis on cloud integration, automation, and high availability to enable reliable data services for members, providers, and caregivers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience administering enterprise database environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Professional database certifications (e.g., Db2, MongoDB, AWS Certified DB – Specialty, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) preferred.
• Experience with IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and other relational/NoSQL platforms.
• Strong SQL, database architecture, indexing, partitioning, tuning, and query optimization knowledge.
• Experience backup/recovery, replication, clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, and data security controls.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain enterprise database platforms (IBM Db2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Design highly available, secure, scalable database environments for business applications and analytics.
• Monitor performance and optimize queries, indexing, partitioning, and configuration.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, DR, replication, and high availability solutions.
• Implement RBAC, authentication, encryption, auditing, and data masking for PHI and sensitive data.
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, cybersecurity, and business teams to optimize workloads.
• Administer AWS services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) including provisioning, security, and performance tuning.
• Support migration, modernization, cloud adoption, and hybrid on-premises to cloud initiatives.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and automate provisioning/monitoring tasks.
• Maintain documentation, standards, procedures, and best practices; ensure governance and compliance.

Skills

SQL tuning

Database design

Cloud/AWS

DB2/SQL Server/PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

Automation scripting

Security controls

Performance optimization

Linux/Windows

DevOps/IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

RDS/Aurora/Redshift

IBM Db2

MongoDB

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

Modivcare is seeking an experienced Database Administrator IV to ensure performance, security, and scalability of enterprise database platforms powering healthcare operations and analytics.

You will design and support database solutions across relational and NoSQL systems, with emphasis on cloud integration, automation, and high availability to enable reliable data services for members, providers, and caregivers.