Database Administrator IV

KHS Buck Owens Office, 2900 Buck Owens Blvd., Bakersfield, California, United States of America

Posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM

We appreciate your interest in our organization and assure you that we are sincerely interested in your qualifications. A clear understanding of your background and work history will help us potentially place you in a position that meets your objectives and those of the organization. Qualified applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, or any related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, gender expression, military status, or the presence of a non-job related medical condition or disability (mental or physical).

KHS reasonably expects to pay starting compensation for the position of Database Administrator IV in the range of $,796 Annual

Only in-state applicants will be considered.

Telecommute Position

Kern Health Systems is dedicated to improving the health status of our members through an integrated managed health care delivery system.

The Database Administrator IV is responsible for all aspects of the organizations database management strategy, integrity, and design with subject matter expertise of the data stored within the database systems. This includes database design; table definition design and creation; ETL (Extract Translate and Load) design and development from conception to implementation; database maintenance, tuning, backup, and upgrades. The Database Administrator IV leads discussions and mentors application and database development staff with database design, automation and validation of data load routines involving application databases.

In addition, The Database Administrator IV provides team leadership, establishes technical standards for the database team, and works closely with the management team to continuously refine the KHS project management and agile development methodology, procedures, and policies in order to promote efficiency and productivity. The position will be required to lead, work with, and mentor people of various professional, vocational, and educational backgrounds.

• Provide strong technical direction and guidance, project management skills using the Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology, and related abilities to facilitate, execute, and accomplish corporate and maintenance project deliverables.
• Provide technical leadership for all aspects of Database development and operations, lead technical teams using the Agile methodology for incremental product delivery, independently perform Scrum Master duties, and promote Agile best practices for continuous improvement.
• Facilitate and lead collaborative cross functional work groups to resolve complex problems in real-time to reduce or mitigate operational interruptions.
• Mentor and provide leadership to junior team members.

• Architect and develop ETL using Microsoft SQL server Integrations services and catalog that are used to collect and store the data from external sources, so that data can be accessed by internal or external business and technology partners or users.
• Install, configure, support, and troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server, or other relational database platforms like Postgre Sql or MySql, supporting OS and associated hardware.
• Design, create, or modify database tables, indexes, constraints, links, stored procedures, and functions.
• Expertise in working with different types of data (JSON/xml/HL7/etc.) and heterogeneous data sources from web/cloud-based solutions to Data Lakes or warehouses.
• Perform code review and troubleshoot in development of custom database packages and maintain code repository in Azure Dev Ops.
• Ensure that routine or special database software upgrades, maintenance, security audits, and patches are performed.
• Manage and review database server administration including but not limited to data and database backup and recovery, system performance, system monitoring, and database security.
• Provide leadership in the overall database designs and setup in support of the KHS and industry standards and establish best practices to govern database server users, roles, or permissions.
• Provide direction and methodology for the data warehouse design, creation, and maintenance to include data schemas and associated ETL in conjunction with business needs.
• Establish standards for data integrity in the KHS data warehouse through data reconciliation techniques, data analysis, or ETL design issues.
• Provide design and structural recommendations for database application tuning and performance enhancements to development team.
• Advanced knowledge of ANSI SQL (T-SQL preferred).

• Independently evaluate, select, and integrate third party tools.
• Proactively interacts with management, business and technical…