Oracle Database Administrator - Phoenix, AZ

Transform health care and change the way consumers engage with technology.

Sounds like a big challenge, right? Here, at Optum, you have the opportunity to achieve great things while you showcase your passion and technical expertise as a Applications Development Consultant. You'll be inspired by working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in technology who bring compassion, energy and focus to their work every day on a mission to change health care as we know it. Join us! Come share who you are and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

As part of our development team, you will predominantly be involved in building business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications. You'll stretch your skills and grow your careers as a primary contributor in designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with the established specifications and business requirements in order to deliver business value.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive consulting at highest technical level, ensuring efficiency and security.


• In-depth working knowledge of relational databases (oracle), database management, database structures and design.


• Support advanced database design, configuration and environments.


• Acts as consulting resource in database administration


• Advanced database performance and tuning.


• Advanced skills in tuning SQL and PL/SQL coding.


• Work with developers and testers for troubleshooting any Database related issues including DB performance.


• Provide off hours support.


• Researches and evaluates alternatives and recommends solutions for system design.


• Test duties as analyst, without direction.


• Support problem resolution; consult and advise on application design and tuning; plan, organize and execute product benchmarks for threshold and functionality.


• Provide Data Administration support for the development and maintenance of production, stage, and test database environments for distributed applications.


• Act as Team Lead. May be involved in providing assistance and training to junior level Database Analysts.


• Operates with minimal supervision across multiple environments and platforms.


• Confers with appropriate managers/application groups regarding problems with and capabilities of databases.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years related database administration experience including control and development of standards


• 5+ years of Oracle database administration


• 5 + years well versed with DBA concepts, performance tuning, maintenance, and design


• 5+ years skill and experience with Oracle on a UNIX platform

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related discipline


• Experience with the Facets application is highly preferred


• Healthcare industry knowledge is preferred


• Experience working in a Team Lead role preferred


• Solve complex problems without a lot of guidance


• Excellent consultative and communication skills, strong organizational, analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills


• Self-directed, self-starter, motivated and proactive

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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