Senior Cloud Database Architect

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Job Description




Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Calgary, AB, CA Toronto, ON, CA

Req ID: 27075

Jobs by Category: Health

Job Function: Engineering & Development

Status: Full Time

Schedule: Regular

Join our team


We are Canada’s most innovative digital health company and touch the lives of more Canadians than anyone else, and we aspire to transform healthcare within Canada and beyond.
The Collaborative Health team at TELUS Health is led by physician-technologists and design-obsessed engineers. We’re charting a new course in healthcare with our award-winning TELUS Collaborative Health Record, an end-to-end, secure, cloud-based digital platform. Patient engagement and automation are at the core of our vision.
Our rapidly growing customer base includes thousands of healthcare professionals from across Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.
Find your people and your purpose
Are you a decisive problem solver who takes pride in engineering beautiful products? You belong here.
We’re a group of passionate individuals committed to building technology solutions that transform how clinicians deliver patient care. We need passionate self-starters to bring our vision to life. You will work alongside a diverse group of developers, testers and product specialists with vast experience in the healthcare IT industry.
Bring your ideas and watch them grow.

Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together

As the Senior Cloud Database Architect, you’ll be managing our CHR CloudSQL resources to optimize our database performance, integrity, security, monitoring, maintenance and support of Collaborative Health’s Postgres database systems.

You are leading the planning, design, and review of systems and applications which require data access.

Most importantly you'll be contributing to our mission to improve healthcare delivery and innovation across the country by working with the latest technologies in a fast-paced environment to improve integrated digital health ecosystems.

What you'll do



  • Developing a migration path to upgrade PostgreSQL to the latest version
  • Provide monitoring and troubleshooting support of enterprise
  • databases, including performance enhancement and root cause
  • analysis.
  • Develop backup and recovery strategies and processes.
  • Support RDBMS design and/or appropriate configuration changes, new
  • installations for medium to large sized projects.
  • Maintain a strong level of understanding of relevant application functionality and impacts to the database.
  • Administering other aspects of the DB infrastructure (security, scaling, etc.)
  • Developing and practicing disaster recovery plans
  • Large replications, documentation
  • Develop standards relating to RDBMS technology, architecture and
  • processes (security, performance, backup and recovery, etc.).
  • Test and Implement RDBMS patches and upgrades.
  • Support database functions, including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) services
  • Lead space management initiatives and database migration projects
  • Leverage your expertise to guide our database improvement strategy
  • Collaborate with business users and other technology teams to support any database requests, applying database patches, providing first level support for troubleshooting database issues, and supporting the deployment of database changes.




What you bring
  • 8-10 years of operational experience with RDBM systems (such asPostgreS, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis)
  • 4+ years of experience with a cloud provider such as GCP or AWS.
  • University degree in a related field or the equivalent experience demonstrated by progressive responsibilities
  • Demonstrated capabilities working with PostgreSQL Server, CloudSQL and other database technologies
  • Relevant database certification(s) and experience with large and complex enterprise systems and cloud-based database technologies are an asset


Nice-to-haves
  • Avid user of Slack emojis and gifs
  • An insatiable appetite for modern and emerging technologies and tools
  • Experience working with Datadog and Sentry
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and Helm.



If you don't have 100% of the experience listed above, you should still apply. We'd love to connect and learn about your unique skills and motivations to build something meaningful by leveraging the experience you DO have.

Why TELUS?


At TELUS, Collaborative Health you’ll join a diverse team dedicated to learning, teaching, and impact; as individuals and as a team. As a workplace, we care about our team members and have a total rewards package that makes being a part of TELUS Health something to be proud of:

100% remote within Canada: so you can work where you feel most inspired (including in-person if YOU want to!)
Stay healthy: flex benefits with options to customize coverage based on your lifestyle and needs, inclusively offering coverage for Gender Affirmation and Fertility treatments.
Virtual Care: premium access to digital healthcare for you and a loved one; avoid long waits at the clinic, just chat with a medical professional from your couch!
Work Life Integration: paid vacation and flexible well-being days
Family leave: mothers, fathers and adoptive parents benefit from a top-up during part of their leave.
Pension plan: to help you save for the future with a generous company match (free money!).
Employee Share Purchase Plan: you can invest in our shared success, company matched!
Wellness Spending Account: To support your whole person wellness
Learning and development: Internal resources for business, leadership, and technical skills
Savings: who doesn’t love discounts? (on TELUS services and partner/supplier services and products)
Employee and family assistance: LifeWorks provides free services to support you through life events
Tools/Technology: Mac or PC, whichever enables you to do your best work

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2018679
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Education
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