What types of staffing challenges or headaches have you experienced in the past?Resumes that include extensive details for candidates with limited actual experience.Especially, with candidates who may have worked on many projects but were not required to develop a plan / strategy given the objectives.Recruiters submitting multiple, clearly unqualified candidatesCommuting candidates do not understand the challenges of a mostly onsite position.Candidates are unable to effectively communicate as part of the interview process.Notes to recruiters :Previous experience in health care related information technology, insurance information technology, Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), Medicaid eligibility, or social services eligibility, while not necessary, will be helpful.This position requires excellent communications skills including effective oral and written communication.If a vendor finds it necessary to substantially revise a candidate's resume or add additional or clarifying information at the top of the candidate's resume, then the resume is not yet ready for submission, and the candidate will likely not be a good fit.Resumes limited to 2-4 pagesScope of the project :Various existing solutions plus new development in support of the State of South Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).Daily Duties / Responsibilities :The Senior SQL DBA is responsible for working closely with both the project development team (scrum / sprint teams) and with the Clemson Oracle Database Administrators as well as IDMS DBAs to provide DBA support for numerous application and infrastructure databases.Duties include :Advising development and product teams on best approaches for required data model extensions and / or changes.Hands-on SQLdevelopment and application support in ways that are consistent with Microsfot best practices.Collaboration with Clemson's Oracle and IDMS database administration team to maintain test, staging, production databases and the development of operations procedures for database management.Developing and executing a data migration plan as needed to accommodate data transfers from existing data stores.Coordinating with outside entities, including vendors for other systems / services, providers, professional associations, and other State agencies.Analyze performance data, recommend courses of action and implement best solutions to achieve optimum performance.Participate in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.Other duties as assigned.Clemson is seeking a Senior Microsoft SQL professional with the knowledge and experience along with comparable communication and interpersonal skills to enable success on this high-visibility project.Required Skills (rank in order of Importance) :The Senior SQL DBA role has four major attributes :software development leadership, project management skills, people skills, and domain knowledge in enterprise class multi-tier web-based application development projects.Candidates must display excellence in all areas.Proven DBA experience in supporting enterprise applications in Linux environments, preferably windows and Linux.Experience with Data GuardDemonstrated success in supporting a development team implementing primarily web-based solutions using SQL as the database.Understanding of IT development and implementation projects.Understanding of database scalability and operations.Project planning experience, including effort estimation on technical tasks and resource allocation.Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to give presentations to project management.Strong proficiency in English is required.Impeccable integrity.This project will have very high visibility and will impact significant expenditures of public funds.Candidates must be confident with their abilities to make correct decisions and the courage to speak out when necessary.Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis.Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance) :Understanding of Oracle Enterprise ManagerHealthcare industry experience and / or experience managing PHI / PII dataExperience in data encryption and traffic encryption.Vendor management experience.Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experienceMedicaid operations experience.Public sector experience is a plus.Required Education :Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or related field.Master's degree is desirable.Required Certifications :None required.SQLtraining / certification from a recognized source is beneficial.. Experience: 5 years required