Oracle Exadata DBA - Remote

Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Job Description
- Oracle Exadata DBA
- Remote (2395450)

Oracle Exadata DBA
- Remote - 2395450

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while
Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Join the NY APD and Virginia EDW Analytics Operations and Maintenance team within Optum Technology as a Principal Data Engineer. In this role, you will lead the architecture, design, and operational management of mission-critical Oracle and Snowflake data warehouses across development, test, UAT, production, and training environments in New York and Virginia. You will ensure optimized compute, memory, and storage configurations across high-demand systems, while designing, building, and deploying AI-powered solutions, Copilot automations, and intelligent runbooks using Python, Bash, and Azure OpenAI.

This role offers the unique opportunity to solve complex data platform challenges, drive infrastructure automation, and ensure resilient, high-performance data systems that support large-scale healthcare and public sector analytics.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI
• Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement
• Evaluate emerging trends to inform solution design and strategic innovation
• Lead the architectural design, administration, and operational management of enterprise Oracle and Snowflake data warehouse platforms across dev, test, UAT, prod, and training environments
• Architect, configure, and maintain Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Oracle RAC, and Data Guard environments to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and data resilience
• Optimize database compute, memory, and storage configurations, conducting advanced query tuning, workload profiling, and system performance tuning
• Build and deploy automated operational workflows, diagnostic tools, and self-healing runbooks using Python, Bash, Azure OpenAI, and modern AI/ML frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, infrastructure, networking, and storage teams to integrate Informatica MDM pipelines and enterprise monitoring solutions

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of database engineering or administration experience managing large-scale enterprise Oracle database environments
• 5+ years of experience architecting, managing, and tuning Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Data Guard
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Oracle Exadata or Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) engineered systems
• 3+ years of experience writing and maintaining infrastructure automations using Python and Bash
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing, or…