Database Engineer IV; Lead

Position: Database Engineer IV (Lead)
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* Full time

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* Day Shift

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* Description:

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* ** This position will be*
* ** hybrid- 60**  **% remote / 40%*
* ** onsite*
* ** POSITION

DESCRIPTION:

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** Database Engineer IV (Lead)
** provides technical leadership and strategic direction for the organization's database platforms, services, and long-term data architecture. This role defines enterprise database standards, guides modernization initiatives, and ensures 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 needs.

The role combines advanced technical expertise with strong leadership, mentorship, and planning capabilities. Through hands‑on engineering and forward-looking strategy, the Lead Database Engineer ensures database systems are secure, highly available, well maintained, and positioned for long-term reliability, scalability, and performance across the organization's data platforms.

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* ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

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* Implements proactive database maintenance practices, including automated jobs, integrity checks, performance monitoring, and alerting. Troubleshoots and resolves database errors, failed jobs, data integrity issues, and deployment or configuration problems. Designs and implements best practice, standardized database administration functions, including backup and restore strategies, disaster recovery planning and testing, high availability, and failover solutions. Defines and maintains enterprise database architecture standards, strategies and technical roadmaps.

Leads the design and implementation of secure, highly available and scalable database platforms. Oversees complex database initiatives, including modernization and cloud migration 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.

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. 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.

** ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS:*
* 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…