Data Administrator

• → Data Flow Automation: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, automated ETL/ELT pipelines for daily batch processing across enterprise data systems.
• → Multi-Platform Administration: Support, tune, and optimize database connectivity and data movement between MSSQL, Oracle, and MySQL environments.
• → Pipeline Monitoring & Alerts: Build proactive monitoring systems and automated error-handling routines (e.g., email alerts, automated fail-overs) to identify and remediate batch job failures immediately.
• → Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and batch scheduling to minimize processing windows and ensure high availability.
• → Data Reliability & Quality: Implement data profiling and automated validation checks within the pipelines to preserve data lineage and guarantee data accuracy.
• → Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation regarding data architecture, workflow dependencies, orchestration schedules, and disaster recovery procedures.
• → Project planning and communication: Develop operational project tasks and schedules to support communications with business teams, technical teams and other project participants. Minimum Qualifications:
• → Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related software development field with at least four years related experience in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) environment.
• → Healthcare IT Experience: At least 2 full-time years professional experience in healthcare IT systems, with a strong understanding of health data workflows, clinical data storage, healthcare data privacy and security requirements and healthcare operations.
• → BI and Visualization: Proficiency with Power BI, including data modeling, connecting to disparate data sources, and optimizing gateway connections for automated refreshes, including at least 12 months experience developing customer-facing BI solutions.
• → Database Expertise: Comprehensive, production-level experience administering and querying MSSQL (SQL Server), Oracle Database, and MySQL without depending on general database administrator accesses.
• → Automation & Orchestration: At least 3 years leading design and operation of enterprise job schedulers, ETL tools, or workflow management platforms (e.g., SQL Server Agent, Cron, Apache Airflow, or similar automation tools).
• → Scripting Skills: At least 5 years experience writing advanced script automation using T-SQL, PL/SQL, Python, PowerShell, and/or Bash to handle data ingestion, structural validation, and file manipulation.
• → Data Integration Patterns: At least 2 years experience managing batch processing mechanics, change data capture (CDC), delta loads, and managing connectivity across disparate database platforms (via linked servers, DB links, or API endpoints).
• → Environment Experience: At least 2 years professional experience operating in secure environments, managing cross-platform credentials, and supporting remote-first or hybrid operational architectures.

• Verifiable professional experience building or supporting projects with healthcare interoperability standards, such as FHIR and HL7, and data formats (e.g.,HIPAA compliance frameworks).
• At least 1-year professional experience writing DAX or Power Query (M) formulas for advanced Power BI transformations.
• At least 1-year professional experience supporting institutional research, medical analytics, or complex clinical reporting systems.

Work Location: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032

To Apply: Submit an application through our website at https://rfmh.applicantpro.com/jobs/. Please note only applications submitted through our website will be considered.

The Mission of the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. RFMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, RFMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring that RFMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. RFMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

The Research Foundation is a private not-for-profit corporation and is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York. Employees of the Research Foundation are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits. Excellent Benefits Package. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer - Disabled/Veteran, 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) compliant.