Manager - Database Administrator (Hybrid)

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

• Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week

• Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week

• Hybrid 2 (Operational Roles such as but not limited to: Customer Service, Claims Processors, and Correspondence positions): must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month

• Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job

• Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per week.

This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only.  This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The position is responsible for managing the operations, engineering and deliverables for the Database administration team; participate in the design, development, testing and implementation of Database technologies. Drives the overall strategy of Database for BCBSAZ.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 7 years of experience managing relational database technologies, application, hardware or network support with an emphasis on design, architecture and technical problem solving
• 7 years of application development and ETL support
• 7 years of experience with strategic implementation and maintenance of technology infrastructure
• 5 years of employee management experience

Required Education

• Associate's degree in business, information technology, computer systems, or related field

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• N/A

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Work Experience

• 10 years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting multiple tier application and database solutions.
• 10 years of experience in infrastructure operations or application development
• 7 years of project management experience, preferably within a large-scale, complex, IT organization

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or related field

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• Project Management Professional Certification
• Technical certifications in software architecture and systems design
• ITIL v3 Certification

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Database ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT

• Responsible for the overall technical director of the Database Service team, including the coordination for the definition of standards for SQL Server administration
• Responsible for distributing work to the Database Services and SharePoint team and scheduling of tasks
• Direct systems design, programming, implementation and modification activities in conjunction with Team Leaders, other IT technical managers, users, and management.
• Analyze design and architectural issues and adjust system design to solve problems in a dynamic environment; align business requirements with enterprise technology alternatives and options. Provide perspective on leading industry trends, and recommend new and emerging technologies.
• Optimize database infrastructure through virtualization, clustering and load balanced technologies and provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) input into solution design, and optimization for virtualized/cloud solutions