Database Engineer IV; Lead

Overview

This position is hybrid—60% remote / 40% onsite. A Database Engineer IV (Lead) provides technical leadership and strategic direction for the organization’s database platforms, services and long-term data architecture. This role is responsible for defining enterprise database standards, guiding modernization initiatives, and ensuring database solutions align with organizational technology, security, and compliance objectives. The Lead Database Engineer collaborates closely with IT leadership, Information Systems, Security, and business stakeholders to ensure database platforms effectively support clinical, operational and analytical priorities.

In addition to advanced technical expertise, the Database Engineer IV demonstrates strong leadership, mentorship, and planning capabilities. This role drives governance, best practices, and continuous improvement across database operations while remaining actively engaged in complex technical work. By balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution, the Lead Database Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the resilience, scalability, and reliability of the organization’s data infrastructure.

• Defines and maintains enterprise database architecture standards, strategies and technical roadmaps.
• Defines and maintains enterprise database operational standards, maintenance processes, backup strategies, highly-available configurations, disaster recovery plans, and business continuity plans.
• Leads the design and implementation of secure, highly available and scalable database platforms.
• Oversees complex, high risk database initiatives, including modernization and cloud integration efforts.
• Establishes governance models, lifecycle management processes and operational best practices.
• Partners with IT Security to ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational security standards.
• Provides technical leadership, mentorship and professional development guidance to database engineering staff, and utilizes matrix-management leadership cross-functionally to lead within the department and organization.
• Reviews and approves database architecture designs, schema changes and major operational modifications.
• Leads response efforts for critical database incidents and directs root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Leads and drives capacity planning, performance forecasting and cost optimization initiatives.
• Leads database operational efforts including creation, maintenance, optimization, break/fix, backups, and archives.
• Evaluates vendor tools, platforms and solutions and participates in technology selection and planning.
• Represents database engineering in enterprise planning, cross functional initiatives and leadership discussions.
• Ensures comprehensive documentation and knowledge continuity across database platforms and services.

• Creates a positive, professional, service-oriented work environment for staff, patients and family members by supporting the mission and values of Trinity Health Medical Group.
• Must be able to work effectively as a member of the Information Systems team.
• Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.
• Successfully completes all relevant organizational training and adheres to Trinity Health Medical Group standard of care as outlined in the Trinity Health Code of Conduct.
• Maintains knowledge of and complies with Trinity Health Medical Group standards, policies and procedures.
• Maintains general knowledge of Trinity Health Medical Group office services and in the use of all relevant office equipment, computer and manual systems.
• Maintains strict confidentiality in compliance with Trinity Health Medical Group and HIPAA guidelines.
• Serves as a role model by demonstrating exceptional ability and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities. Embraces new ideas and respects cultural differences.
• Uses resources efficiently.
• If applicable, responsible for ongoing professional development – maintains appropriate…