At Trella Health, we are passionate and committed to our mission: empowering meaningful change in healthcare. Since our founding in 2015, we continue to grow our team, enhance our solution and services offerings, accelerate into new markets, and expand our customer base. We are rapidly growing and are looking for new Trellavators to join our team!
“What is a Trellavator?” you ask. Innovate and elevate is the name of our game! We go above and beyond to collaborate with and support each other. We believe that when a colleague or customers succeeds, we succeed. By learning from others, building on our successes, and taking risks, we constantly raise the bar. After all, continuous improvement is in our DNA. Our word is paramount, we keep our commitments, and we always follow through. We have a strong, reliable support system that fuels growth, collaboration, and passion—and together, we create a positive environment where everyone at Trella Health, including the customers we support, can thrive. Are you ready to learn more about the opportunities with our team? Trell-yeah you are!
Position Overview:
Trella Health is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our technology team. As Trella Health’s first Database Administrator, you will play a critical role in building the foundation for Trella’s future data strategy. This is not just an operations role: you will drive proactive architectural database design decisions, lead database optimization efforts, and partner with our Data Engineering and Software Engineering teams to standardize and scale how we manage and govern data. If you have a passion for data and technology, a strong analytical mindset, and the ability to help establish data management and maintenance processes, we hope you apply!
Location: This is a remote-first position. While we have a strong preference for candidates located in or near our regional hubs (Atlanta, Nashville, Philadelphia), we will consider qualified applicants based in other U.S. locations.
Reports to: Director, IT Operations
As a Senior Database Administrator at Trella, you will:
- Own the full lifecycle of database administration for mission-critical systems: designing, installing, configuring, and maintaining database systems in Snowflake and Postgres, including monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting issues.
- Lead performance tuning, index optimization, and capacity planning initiatives.
- Provide a seamless flow of information by keeping the database running smoothly.
- Design and implement data security and integrity controls, including implementation of access controls, backups, and recovery plans.
- Identify and implement database requirements for new or existing applications by working collaboratively with other teams.
- Optimize database performance and efficiency by evaluating and recommending new database technologies.
- Support users and developers by resolving data-related technical issues and troubleshooting queries by guiding them with best practices.
- Execute regular database maintenance tasks, including database defragmentation, backups, and database replication.
- Help guide long-term data architecture, governance, and compliance best practices.
- Design and execute disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure database availability during system outage.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including data standards, procedures, and definitions to scale institutional knowledge.
This job might be a fit for you if you have:
- 7+ years of experience in database administration or in a similar role.
- Experience in database backup, disaster recovery planning, performance optimization, and data security.
- Knowledge of database management systems such as MySQL, MariaDB and Postgres. Experience with Snowflake is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to provide quick solutions to issues.
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills to work in a team environment.
- Experience in cloud database technologies, such as Amazon RDS is preferred.
- Knowledge of AWS Lake Formation is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent years of experience.
About Trella Health:
Trella Health provides unmatched, actionable market intelligence to post-acute care and value-based care providers of all sizes. Our industry leading analytics paired with CRM and EHR integration workflows positions us as the most advanced sales enablement platform for the post-acute care market. One of only a few companies to be deemed both a Qualified Entity by CMS and an Innovator under its Virtual Research Data Center Program, Trella has elite access to billions of performance metrics and referral data to enable competitive positioning across the market. Its standardized insights, representing 90% of all lives 65+ U.S. population, help customers identify, engage, and manage critical relationships and advance their organizations with certainty.
Since launching our first product in 2016, we have experienced tremendous growth and have highlighted a few key data points to get an at-a-glance view of Trella:
- Over 900 customers including 10 of the top 10 post-acute providers and 4 of the top 10 health systems
- Over 120 team members and growing
- Recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Best Places to Work” in consecutive years and were ranked in the Top 50 startups in the US by LinkedIn
- Headquartered in Atlanta, GA with remote hubs in Nashville, Philadelphia, the Philippines, and Latin America.
The Trellavator Experience:
At Trella Health, you can expect to join a welcoming team that truly embodies our core values. Our collaborative culture is anchored by trust, transparency, and inclusion—and we also have a lot of fun. No matter where you work, at Trella Health you can expect an awesome team, frequent virtual gatherings, engaging events, casual attire, and more.
We offer competitive salaries with a comprehensive benefits package to all employees and provide an environment that fosters work-life harmonization with Flexible Paid Time Off, along with remote-first work arrangements. As we continue to see exponential growth, our goal is to continue to put team members first and strive to offer our team members the best culture and benefits possible. Some of the benefits we provide are:
- Health, Dental, Vision & Voluntary Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Bonus Plans
- 401k Retirement Savings
- Flexible PTO & 10 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Hours
- Equity Shares
- Paid Leave Programs
- Marketplace for discounted retail and entertainment
Equal Opportunity Employer
Trella Health is an equal opportunity employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, handicap, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status as recognized by federal, state, or local laws.
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