Type of Requisition:
RegularClearance Level Must Currently Possess:
NoneClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
NonePublic Trust/Other Required:
MBI (T2)Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and OperationsJob Qualifications:
Skills:
Data Standards, Data Systems, Federal HealthcareCertifications:
NoneExperience:
5 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
NoJob Description:
Contribute to the strategic direction of the business and support impactful mission outcomes as a TPA Core Services Senior Database Administrator at GDIT. Here, you’ll enable the success of one of the most critical federal healthcare missions and ensure the stability, integrity, performance, and security of data systems supporting the World Trade Center Health Program.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACTAs a TPA Core Services Senior Database Administrator, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP). You will play a crucial role in maintaining and optimizing databases that support eligibility, claims processing, provider management, member services, and financial operations across Third Party Administrator (TPA) core service areas.
● Lead administration, tuning, maintenance, and optimization of databases that support mission‑critical healthcare operations, ensuring availability, reliability, and secure handling of sensitive Program data.
● Collaborate with developers, architects, data analysts, security specialists, operations teams, and system vendors to ensure databases align with application requirements, integration needs, and compliance frameworks.
● Drive improvements in performance, scalability, backup and recovery, data integrity, and auditing processes while supporting migrations, upgrades, and cross‑system data validation.
● Utilize database administration tools, SQL expertise, performance monitoring platforms, cloud database services, automation scripts, and secure data management practices to uphold federal healthcare data standards.
Bring your initiative and technical expertise to GDIT. The TPA Core Services Senior Database Administrator must have:
● Education: Technical training, certification(s), or degree
● Experience: 5+ years of related experience in database administration or data systems engineering
● Technical skills: SQL proficiency; database performance tuning; backup and recovery; security hardening; data replication; cloud database environments; monitoring tools; and experience supporting mission‑critical systems
● Security clearance level: MB(T2)
● US citizenship required
● Role requirements: Ability to collaborate across technical and operational teams; strong understanding of HIPAA and secure handling of PHI/PII; familiarity with NIST/FIPS/FedRAMP standards; experience with highly integrated system environments; 0–10% travel as needed
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
Explore a career in data systems and program delivery at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for secure, reliable, mission‑critical data operations.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Travel Required:
Less than 10%Telecommuting Options:
RemoteWork Location:
Any Location / RemoteAdditional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events atgdit.com/tc.
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