Working title:

Database Administrator - Ophthalmology

Official title:

SR DATA BASE ADMINSTR(R82BN) or DATA BASE ADMINSTR(R82DN) or ASSOC DATA BASE ADMIN(R82FN)

Degree and area of specialization:

BA/BS in computer science or related field required.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:

3 or more years of a Microsoft SQL Server database administrator/developer
Strong familiarity with OO design
3 or more years of experience data modeling

Preferred:
Familiarity with Standard Life Cycle Development methodology
Medical and/or clinical trial experience
Experience in support enterprise-wide high availability databases, image databases, and data warehouses

Principal duties:

The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS), Fundus Photograph Reading Center (FPRC) provides medical expertise and specialized diagnostic services in support of clinical trials research and epidemiologic studies of eye and retinal diseases. The FPRC serves as on of the top-ranking eye diagnostic service centers within the United States and provides service to the pharmaceutical industry, academic institutions, as well as small business development centers throughout the United States. The FPRC provides medical expertise and support to federally-funded and sponsor-funded research programs and clinical trials studies. The FPRC in partnership with the National Institutes of Health(NIH) has developed accepted scientific methodologies for the analysis of ophthalmic images. Using these methodologies, the FPRC produces data through the analysis of ophthalmic images for emerging treatments of eye diseases.

This position reports to the Sr. Information Processing Consultant DOVS - Fundus Photograph Reading Center

Principal Duties:
- Provide comprehensive support for proprietary ophthalmic image handling systems through collaboration with sponsors to develop requirements and procedures for installing, evaluating, monitoring, using, and troubleshooting database on ad-hoc reporting procedures. Provide database support for a research group conducting large clinical research trials/studies relevant to epidemiologic studies of the eye including retinal diseases, diabetic eye disease, age-related macular degeneration, uveitis, AIDS, retinal vein occlusion and neovascular eye disease.

The qualified candidate will be involved with the scientific research theories relevant to epidemiologic projects.
- Provide consultation and training for faculty, researchers, and staff on hardware and software support, access to database systems, use and data transfer, as well as hardware and software standards for specific ophthalmic research and educational projects to principal investigators and staff.

Maintain and support an environment used for biomedical research, clinical trials and educational projects:
- Conduct and monitor regular data backups; restore data when necessary
- Monitor resource usage; update hard/software
- Assess database security and recommend action on security issues
- Train users on the use of SQL and ad-hoc reporting tools
- Provide consultation and training for faculty, researchers and staff on use and data transfer as well as hard/software standards for specific ophthalmic research including but not limited to retinal diseases, diabetic eye disease, age-related macular degeneration, uveitis, AIDS, retinal vein occlusion and neovascular eye disease, and educational projects
- Maintain and enhance group database infrastructure
- Develop physical and logical database models and accompanying database views to use for image analysis for specific ophthalmic related questions
- Program in SQL including stored procedures and triggers

TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION

Application must be received by: MAY 09, 2008

HOW TO APPLY:

Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #58788 to