Database Administrator 1/2/3 (Health Data Solutions Architect - PCN 168015)
Database administrator/health data solutions architect with Alaska's Department of Health: designs and optimizes enterprise health data pipelines, models, and databases; builds Power BI semantic models, DAX calculations, and dashboards; and integrates EHR, vital records, and surveillance data for statewide public health programs.
Compensation
Not disclosed
Location
Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK
Work setup
Not specified
Seniority
Not specified
Employment
Part time
Experience
Not specified
Category
Devops
Posted
Skills
analytics
authentication
cloud
data-mining
data-pipelines
data-warehousing
powerbi
stakeholder-management
Must have
Must be an Alaska resident (residency definition applies)
Competencies in computers and electronics, data management, information assurance, learning, and technical problem solving (DBA 1 level)
Competencies in critical thinking, database administration, data systems, information assurance, and technical problem solving (DBA 2 level)
Competencies in critical thinking, database administration, database management systems, information assurance, and IT architecture (DBA 3 level)
Training/education in computer science, software engineering, database administration, data analysis, IT, or similar, or equivalent experience in programming, database queries, data analysis, or DBA w
Answer the Supplemental Questions for the application to be evaluated
Provide three professional references at interview (one must be current or most recent supervisor)
Provide academic transcripts (unofficial acceptable) to verify education used toward minimum qualifications
Nice to have
Applies Technology to Tasks: selects appropriate tools/technologies and troubleshoots technology problems
Analysis and Assessment: uses IT to access, collect, analyze, maintain, and disseminate data
Stakeholder Management: identifies, engages, and manages relationships with stakeholders
Full description
Job Description
Welcome to the Department of Health! We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.Please check out the residency definitionto determine if you qualify.This position will be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 level, depending on the applicant's qualifications and job experience.
**This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate. What you will be doing:**
Lead design, development, and optimization of enterprise health data pipelines, models, and databases that support public health programs and CDC Data Modernization Initiative priorities.
Architect and maintain advanced Power BI semantic models, DAX calculations, dashboards, and automated report delivery systems for statewide decision-makers.
Integrate data from diverse systems—including EHRs, vital records, surveillance platforms, and registries—into cohesive, high-quality structures that improve access, analytics, and interoperability.
Partner with program staff to translate complex public health workflows into technical requirements and deliver scalable, reliable data solutions.
Drive modernization of departmental data infrastructure by implementing best-practice engineering, governance, security, and cloud-first design standards across the enterprise.
Our organization, mission, and culture:
The Department of Health's (DOH) mission is to promote the health, well-being, and self-sufficiency of Alaskans. Our vision is to have interoperable information systems, tools, and standards that provide timely, reliable, and consistent information. Guided by principles of integrity, reliability, transparency, trust, and consistency, we aim to leverage modern data technologies to ensure our department's health initiatives are informed by accurate and accessible data, thus enhancing the health of Alaskans and their communities.
The benefits of joining our team:
Work with modern data platforms and engineering tools while contributing to statewide CDC Data Modernization Initiative projects that directly improve public health. Enjoy flexible work scheduling and telework options that support balance and autonomy. Join a collaborative team that empowers independent decision-making and values technical leadership. Access continuous learning opportunities, including enterprise subscriptions to Pluralsight, Microsoft training, and national communities of practice. Make a meaningful impact by helping modernize Alaska’s health data systems and enabling better insights, faster decisions, and stronger outcomes for communities statewide.
The working environment you can expect:** This position is located at 350 Main Street in Juneau, with optional work sites in Anchorage or Fairbanks. The daily environment is collaborative, technical, and forward-looking, where you’ll provide data solutions across diverse public health programs and help strengthen Alaska’s statewide data infrastructure.
Who we are looking for:
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:
Applies Technology to Tasks: Selects and understands procedures, machines, or tools that will produce the desired results; identifies or solves problems in machines, computers, or other technologies as they are related to performing tasks.
Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort; including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).
To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Database Administrator 1/2/3: classspecs.
This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Database Administrator 1
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Data Management: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and tools of data management, such as modeling techniques, data backup, data recovery, data dictionaries, data warehousing, data mining, data archiving, data disposal, and data standardization processes.
Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
Learning: Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.
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Database Administrator 2
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
Data Systems: Knowledge of computer hardware and software development and systems as they apply to the conception, specification, analysis, planning, development, installation, test, modification and use of data handling and computing systems in support of aerospace flight and ground systems.
Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.
Database Administrator 3
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
Database Management Systems: Knowledge of the uses of database management systems and software to control the organization, storage, retrieval, security, and integrity of data.
Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
Information Technology Architecture: Knowledge of architectural methodologies used in the design and development of information systems, including the physical structure of a system's internal operations and interactions with other systems.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training and/or education in computer science, software engineering, database administration, data analysis, information technology, or similar area or experience in computer programming, designing database queries, data analysis, and/or database administration.
Special Note:
“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
“Training” and “education” are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.
“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Additional Required Information
At the time of the interview, please provide the following:
Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
Current performance evaluation, if available.
A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.
Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.
FLEXIBLY STAFFED
This position is flexibly staffed. This vacancy may be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 levels, depending on the applicant's training and/or experience. The full range of salaries is listed above. The starting salary will be determined by the position level. If filled at a lower level, promotion to the higher level will only occur upon successful completion of the probationary period and the required training, provided the applicant meets the minimum qualifications of the higher job class and receives final approval from the supervisor.
EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.
WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment. A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level. Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position. This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered. If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.
NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application. Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate. Please select the location(s) you are willing to be considered for. There is one (1) position to be filled.
MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.
APPLICATION NOTICE
You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or via a hard copy application. If you accessed this recruitment bulletin through a job search portal such as AlaskaJobs or another database, you MUST use a Workplace Alaska online or hard-copy application to apply successfully. Instructions on how to apply with Workplace Alaska may be found on the Workplace Alaska "How to Apply" webpage, found here: .
NOTICE
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EEO STATEMENT
The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations, auxiliary aids, or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal-opportunity employer.
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Contact Information
For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at: Name/Title: Victoria Backa, Data Modernization Director