Senior Database Engineer

Job Title

Senior Database Engineer

Job Description

 Senior Database Engineer AM&D ECG Solutions, San Diego, CA

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all. Ambulatory Monitoring and Diagnostics Heart, R&D organization. As a Senior Database Engineer, you’ll be a part of highly collaborative, cross-functional Scrum teams within the ECG Software Solutions group.

Your role:

• Design, develop, and implement database solutions using Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.

• Create and optimize stored procedures, triggers, functions, and views to support application development and business requirements.

• Utilize AWS RDS to deploy and manage scalable, highly available relational database instances in the cloud.

• Perform database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Implement and utilize database performance monitoring solutions/tools to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, resource utilization, and capacity planning.

• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software developers, system administrators, and business stakeholders to understand database requirements and deliver effective solutions.

• Develop and maintain documentation including database design specifications, data dictionaries, and operational procedures.

• Participate in database capacity planning, backup and recovery planning, and disaster recovery procedures.

• Stay abreast of emerging database technologies, trends, and best practices.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• 3+ years of experience as a Database Engineer, Database Developer, or related role.

• Proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server and RDS (MySQL) database management systems.

• Strong SQL programming skills with experience in writing complex queries, stored procedures, triggers, and functions.

• Experience with database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with database performance monitoring solutions/tools such as [e.g., SQL Sentry, Datadog, etc.].

• Familiarity with AWS RDS and the ability to deploy, manage, and optimize relational database instances in the cloud.

• Knowledge of database design principles, normalization, and indexing.

• Experience with data security, encryption, and access control mechanisms.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team environment.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database - Specialty) is a plus.

• Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to San Diego, CA.

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

• Learn more about our business.

• Discover our rich and exciting history.

• Learn more about our purpose.

• Read more about our employee benefits.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be t