Database Architect at Connecture Inc in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Job Description:

About Connecture

Connecture is the leading provider of Web-based information systems used to create health insurance marketplaces and exchanges. Its industry-proven solutions enable consumers, employers and brokers to more easily shop for, purchase and renew health insurance while minimizing back-office administrative expenses for health plans. Connecture’s solutions are provided to health plans, state insurance exchanges, private exchanges and insurance brokers. More than 25 million Americans shop for their health insurance through systems built by Connecture, and more than half of the nation’s 20 largest plans rely on them to sell, administer and manage their plans and products effectively. For more information, visit www.connecture.com.

Position Summary

As the Connecture Database Architect, you will possess extensive experience in database design, data modeling and data architecture for high volume transactional databases in an online 24x7 production environment. The database architect will provide the technical leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality, timely solutions and services. The DB Architect’s primary focus is to research, evaluate, plan, design and document all aspects of databases.

Scope of Leadership

• The Database Architect position is a career-development position within field. This role conducts tasks and assignments as directed. 

NOTE: This position is not static and is subject to change as Connecture’s and the Department’s needs change.

Reports To 

R & D Senior Director

Department

R & D

Essential Responsibilities/ Duties

The essential responsibilities of the Database Architect are to:

• Design, build and maintain high performance databases and related structures.


• Design databases to ensure system scalability, security, performance and reliability. This includes design of tables, indexes, views, stored procedures and functions.


• Provide reliable and scalable database infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements.


• Provides technical leadership within the application development group to facilitate and coordinate current and future development efforts that involve database design.


• Participate in application development projects and take responsibility for the database architecture and design


• Provide support and mentorship to engineers in all aspects of database design, creating and tuning queries.


• Collaborate with and take direction from the Database Administration team to:
  
  
  • Identify and remediate performance and scalability issues in QA, development, staging and production databases.
  
  
  • Provide database growth collection and capacity planning guidelines.  
  
  
  • Analyze statistics from production databases to increase efficiency, improve reliability and minimize operating expenses.
  
  
  
  


• Work with the application development team to:
  
  
  • Review, recommend and provide database best practices and standards for development
  
  
  • Help design and implement optimal software architecture for databases
  
  
  
  


• Conduct database design reviews and produce technical documentation.


• Help design and implement optimal physical architecture for databases. 


• Extensive knowledge of all types of DML queries; ability to analyze and create complex SQL statements. 


• Work as part of a team and provide support when required. 


• Work under PCI and HIPAA compliance guidelines.

Qualifications

• A BS/BA Degree Computer Science/ Information Systems or equivalent work experience.


• 5+ years database development and administration design of OLTP systems, relational database design, data modeling tools, creation of databases using complex structures and monitoring and performance tuning databases.

Skills/ Experience Required

• Proficient with MS SQL database server and database development.


• Proficient with MS SQL Management Studio and all associated features


• Strong understanding of sql server security, replication and high availability features


• Proficient in TSQL and excellent knowledge on query optimization using execution plan.


• Highly experienced with data modeling/design tools.


• Strong conceptual, logical and physical data modeling skills


• Excellent knowledge and working experience in OLTP and OLAP


• Experience with SSIS and ETL


• Strong database analytical skills and documentation skills.


• Continuous experience in development of databases from scratch or changing/improving existing database for performance.


• Good understanding of SDLC and working experience of scrum process.


• Working knowledge or good understanding of NoSQL (Couchbase)


• Working knowledge of different types of databases, a plus.


• Working knowledge or good understanding of WCF services, C#, LINQ and .NET entity framework, a plus.

Type of Equipment Used

PCs and various software applications.

Work Environment/ Physical Demands

• Temporarily remote in Milwaukee area.  Will return to hybrid office/remote in future


• General office environment


• Ability to travel occasionally

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