Microsoft Health Solutions Group
EMEA Database Systems Analyst
The Health Solutions Group is a startup business group within Microsoft offering innovative software solutions for the healthcare industry. Database Systems Analysts are part of a team responsible for driving successful deployments of our new enterprise healthcare systems. You will work directly with our customers to help them build, configure, test and deploy world class systems solutions that could ultimately help save lives and improve the quality of patient care around the world. If you like big challenges and if you want to help build systems that could dramatically impact people’s lives, then this position is for you.
The ideal candidate is a self-confident, well spoken, hard working and highly organized professional, who has solid skills and experience in building relationships with customers and partners. He/she is driven to take ownership of a project and has sufficient interpersonal and technical skills to be able to take the project through all of its phases.
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Advise and educate customers on all database configuration activities for large scale healthcare systems implementations
- Work closely with customers to understand their requirements and configure system appropriately
- Assist customers with development of data views and reports
- Troubleshoot database issues that arise during deployments
- Work with integration analyst and application consultant to identify data dependencies, data flow dependencies, and performance tuning to factor into data load, and produce clear documentation.
- Help customers establish processes to manage and maintain systems post-deployment
- Assist with server hardware planning and configuration for optimal system performance
- Assist in setup and administration of SQL Reporting Services and assist in creating SQL reports
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the implementation processes
- Provide input to the development team on product enhancements/features
Ideal candidates will have the following knowledge, qualifications and experience:
- Professional work experience using Microsoft SQL Server version 2005/2000
- Development and/or maintenance of very large-scale database applications
- Experience performing database analysis and design
- Experience writing SQL queries, statements and stored procedures
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ETL Tools (SSIS, BCP)
- Experience with performance tuning OLTP systems
- Configuring databases for clustering, replication and backup/restore processes
- Familiarity with Windows 2003 Server administration, Windows Active Directory, Certificate Administration and IIS
- Familiarity with SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 is a plus but not required
- Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, high intensity start up environment
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to evaluate and interpret end user information requirements, and to develop and implement appropriate technical solutions
- Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills
- Thorough understanding of client-server, 2- and 3- tier systems.
- Healthcare industry background a plus
- 30-50% travel across the region
- Ability to work well in a startup environment
- Bachelor’s degree required
Job location: UK or Germany
