Senior Database Developer

Position: Senior Database Developer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Developer to support the design, development, enhancement, and sustainment of large-scale health information systems and associated applications. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise across application development, database technologies, systems integration, data management, and ongoing production support within a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and debug application enhancements and supporting tools.
  
• Conduct technical analysis and prepare detailed programming specifications.
  
• Design, develop, generate, and maintain application code and unit tests.
  
• Translate technical specifications into fully functional and tested applications.
  
• Conduct proof-of-concept activities, performance testing, and application tuning.
  
• Provide expertise across computing platforms, operating systems, databases, communication protocols, middleware, and gateways.
  
• Perform impact analysis, effort estimation, solution design, and development related to application upgrades and new business requirements.
  
• Support incident management, application sustainment, performance optimization, and technical documentation.
  
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance teams to support testing and integration activities.
  
• Maintain development environments and support Continuous Integration (CI) practices.
  
• Improve data quality, integrity, and accuracy across enterprise systems.
  
• Support the availability and reliability of critical public-facing applications.
  

Required Qualifications

Public Sector and Healthcare Experience

• Experience working with federal, provincial, or broader public-sector healthcare organizations.
  
• Knowledge of large-scale public-sector healthcare IT initiatives.
  
• Experience integrating clinical information systems, including client and provider registries.
  
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, documentation standards, and governance processes.
  
• Familiarity with Project Management Institute (PMI) methodologies and practices.
  
• Experience working within structured project delivery and systems development methodologies.
  

Technical Skills

Minimum 10 years of experience with:

• Oracle 12c database design and development for OLTP and OLAP applications.
  
• PL/SQL development including stored procedures, packages, functions, triggers, ref cursors, dynamic SQL, and database utilities.
  
• Database architecture, data modeling, normalization, and denormalization techniques.
  
• Advanced SQL development and query optimization.
  
• Data warehouse design and development.
  
• Database performance tuning and automation.
  
• Unix/Linux shell scripting.
  
• ETL development and data integration tools.
  
• Reporting and dashboard development tools.
  
• Java development.
  
• JSON, XML, APIs, and RESTful web services.
  
• HL7 and FHIR healthcare integration standards.
  
• Healthcare data and immunization-related systems.
  

Core Skills and Experience

Minimum 10 years of experience with:

• Translating business requirements into technical solution designs.
  
• Designing and developing large-scale, mission-critical applications.
  
• Web-based applications, microservices architecture, mobile applications, and commercial off-the-shelf solutions.
  
• Technical leadership and solution recommendation activities.
  
• Cross-browser and multi-platform application development.
  
• User Interface (UI) design principles and implementation.
  
• Technical analysis, coding, testing, and application support.
  
• System design documentation and technical specifications.
  
• Technical evaluations, gap analysis, and integration assessments.
  
• Healthcare and clinical systems development.
  
• Web performance optimization.
  
• Multiple computing platforms, operating systems, databases, and middleware technologies.
  
• Production support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
  
• Accessibility standards including WCAG and related compliance requirements.
  
• Agile software development methodologies.
  
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• Continuous Integration (CI) and DevOps practices.
  
• Modern application security, privacy, usability, and design principles.
  

General Skills

• Strong leadership and people management capabilities.
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
  
• Proven troubleshooting and critical-thinking abilities.
  
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
  
• Excellent customer service and consulting skills.
  
• Highly organized with strong multitasking capabilities.
  
• Detail-oriented, adaptable, and collaborative team player.
  
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
  

Work Arrangement

• Toronto, Ontario
  
• Hybrid role with onsite presence required (5 days onsite as required by project needs)
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

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