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Kaiser Permanente · 4 hours ago

Chief IT Database Engineer

California-Pasadena-Green Street/IDS

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Chief IT Database Engineer to provide expert consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture. The role involves leading team interactions, developing scalable system designs, and partnering with various IT teams to ensure effective implementation of complex systems.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others

Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback

As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions

Fosters and leverages partnerships with various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation

Serve as an expert in developing system designs that adhere to company architecture standards

Provides guidance and standards for writing, reviewing, and validating technical specifications and documentation

Leads team interactions with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs

Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provide solutions

Modifies and validates system design prototypes

Provides expert consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems across multiple IT functional areas by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities

Leverages expertise on existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands

Leads others in developing project support plans, schedules, and assignments

Partners with business leaders, Solutions, and enterprise architects to review business drivers, and define, understand, and communicate target strategies and roadmaps to team members

Leads colleagues in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems spanning multiple IT functional areas, by partnering with lead Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications

Provides recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs

Serves as a key partner for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure systems across multiple functional IT areas by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services

Leads team members in the estimation of resource requirements for technical design

Qualification

IT infrastructure planningSystems developmentTechnical leadershipCloud-based solutionsAgile practicesWaterfall practicesCollaborationMentoringProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field

Minimum ten (10) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking

Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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