Database Administrator

**Job Overview**

We are hiring an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and enhance the backbone of our healthcare technology platform. This role demands a deep understanding of relational databases, the ability to analyse and transform data, and a strong focus on optimising data storage, access, and security. A key part of this role includes handling data imports and migrations from external systems when onboarding new users and clients to our platform.

**Key Responsibilities**

Database Architecture & Optimisation:

- Design, implement, and refine scalable and secure database structures tailored to complex healthcare data requirements.
- Continuously evaluate and optimize schemas, indices, and queries to improve performance and reduce latency.
- Work closely with product and development teams to build efficient, compliant data models.

Data Analysis, Transformation & Migration:

- Analyse structured and unstructured data to identify trends, inconsistencies, and areas of optimisation.
- Design and execute data transformation processes to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases.
- Import and transform data from various third-party systems into our platform during client onboarding or system migrations.
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity during migration and conversion processes.

Performance Monitoring & Maintenance:

- Monitor databases to ensure availability, performance, and security.
- Perform regular health checks, backups, and tuning tasks to maintain peak system performance.
- Investigate and resolve issues including slow queries, deadlocks, and replication problems.

Security & Compliance:

- Enforce database security best practices including access control, encryption, and data masking.
- Ensure compliance with healthcare data regulations like HIPPA.
- Document data policies and audit database activities regularly.

Support & Continuous Improvement:

- Provide support for database-related issues during development, deployment, and production use.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Development teams to support version control, rollback plans, and performance testing.
- Proactively identify and implement improvements in data lifecycle management and database automation.

**Required Skills & Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DBA, ideally with a domain that involves sensitive or regulated data.
- Strong knowledge of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL Server.
- Experience with data transformation and handling structured healthcare data.
- Hands-on experience in data migration and import processes from third-party systems into in-house databases.
- Proficiency in writing and optimising complex SQL queries.
- Strong understanding of data privacy, access controls, and security protocols.
- Familiarity with backup and recovery strategies, indexing, replication, and performance tuning.

**Nice to Have**
- Experience in the healthcare or medical technology domain.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases (like MongoDB, Redis) and cloud DB services (AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, etc.).
- Familiarity with data warehousing and reporting tools.
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Apache Cassandra, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Google BigQuery that support high-performance analytics, ML, and AI workloads.
- Understanding of data pipelines and integration with machine learning platforms (like TensorFlow Extended, MLflow, etc.)

Pay: ₹400,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person