Senior Stardog Database Administrator
At a glance
Senior Data Architecture & Governance role at Vizient. Edina · full-time · $102,400–$179,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set up and maintain Stardog across development, test and production, keeping the platform available, secure and responsive
- Tune SPARQL queries, reasoning, indexes and graph workloads, while tracking platform health, capacity and performance
- Build backup, recovery and continuity procedures, and automate deployment, monitoring and routine administration
- Maintain healthcare-focused RDF and semantic models, partnering with architects and governance teams on ontologies
- Connect Stardog with databases, cloud storage and APIs, and support Kubernetes-based deployments and Linux operations
What you bring
- Hands-on ability to administer Stardog environments across development, testing and production
- Practical skill with SPARQL, RDF and semantic modeling, including performance tuning for graph workloads
- Experience with Linux command-line administration and cloud-native tools such as Kubernetes or Docker
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone focused on hands-on graph database administration, healthcare semantic data and platform operations. You’ll work across architecture, governance, data engineering and platform engineering teams.
From the employer
When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
- Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain Stardog environments across development, test, and production.
- Ensure knowledge graph platform availability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
- Administer enterprise knowledge graph solutions supporting healthcare analytics, interoperability, benchmarking, quality reporting, and AI initiatives.
- Develop and optimize SPARQL queries, semantic reasoning performance, indexing strategies, and large-scale graph workloads.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Manage RDF, OWL, RDFS, SHACL, and semantic data models representing healthcare concepts, measures, entities, and relationships.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects and data governance teams to design and maintain healthcare ontologies and semantic models.
- Support data virtualization, graph integrations, and semantic interoperability initiatives.
- Partner with Data Engineering and Platform Engineering teams to support enterprise data platforms.
- Integrate Stardog with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Databricks, cloud storage platforms, APIs, and data integration technologies.
- Develop automation scripts and operational procedures for deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and platform administration.
- Support cloud-native deployments utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and related Azure services.
- Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and operational metrics.
- Perform performance tuning and capacity management for graph database environments.
- Support CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices where appropriate.
- Administer and support platform operations within Linux-based environments using command-line tools.
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.
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