Salary: $3,336.75 - $4,591.50 Biweekly
Location : Juneau or Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 55789
Department: Health
Division: DSS-IT Business Applications
Opening Date: 10/26/2026
Closing Date: 11/9/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: DSS - IT Business Applications
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 21,23,25
This position will be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 level, depending on the applicant's qualifications and job experience.This position is currently located in Juneau. The position may be in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau, depending upon the location of the most qualified candidate.What you will be doing:- Lead design, development, and optimization of enterprise health data pipelines, models, and databases that support public health programs and CDC Data Modernization Initiative priorities.
- Architect and maintain advanced Power BI semantic models, DAX calculations, dashboards, and automated report delivery systems for statewide decision-makers.
- Integrate data from diverse systems-including EHRs, vital records, surveillance platforms, and registries-into cohesive, high-quality structures that improve access, analytics, and interoperability.
- Partner with program staff to translate complex public health workflows into technical requirements and deliver scalable, reliable data solutions.
- Drive modernization of departmental data infrastructure by implementing best-practice engineering, governance, security, and cloud-first design standards across the enterprise.
Our organization, mission, and culture:The Department of Health's (DOH) mission is to promote the health, well-being, and self-sufficiency of Alaskans. Our vision is to have interoperable information systems, tools, and standards that provide timely, reliable, and consistent information. Guided by principles of integrity, reliability, transparency, trust, and consistency, we aim to leverage modern data technologies to ensure our department's health initiatives are informed by accurate and accessible data, thus enhancing the health of Alaskans and their communities.
The benefits of joining our team: Work with modern data platforms and engineering tools while contributing to statewide CDC Data Modernization Initiative projects that directly improve public health.
Enjoy flexible work scheduling and telework options that support balance and autonomy.
Join a collaborative team that empowers independent decision-making and values technical leadership.
Access continuous learning opportunities, including enterprise subscriptions to Pluralsight, Microsoft training, and national communities of practice.
Make a meaningful impact by helping modernize Alaska's health data systems and enabling better insights, faster decisions, and stronger outcomes for communities statewide.
The working environment you can expect:This position is located at
350 Main Street in Juneau, with optional work sites in Anchorage or Fairbanks. The daily environment is collaborative, technical, and forward-looking, where you'll provide data solutions across diverse public health programs and help strengthen Alaska's statewide data infrastructure.
Who we are looking for: The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:
Applies Technology to Tasks: Selects and understands procedures, machines, or tools that will produce the desired results; identifies or solves problems in machines, computers, or other technologies as they are related to performing tasks.
Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of the concepts, practices, and techniques used to identify, engage, influence, and monitor relationships with individuals and groups connected to a work effort; including those actively involved, those who exert influence over the process and its results, and those who have a vested interest in the outcome (positive or negative).
To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Database Administrator 1/2/3: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs.
Minimum Qualifications Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications InstructionsThis job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.
Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Database Administrator 1Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Data Management: Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and tools of data management, such as modeling techniques, data backup, data recovery, data dictionaries, data warehousing, data mining, data archiving, data disposal, and data standardization processes.
- Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Learning: Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
- Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.
Database Administrator 2Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
- Data Systems: Knowledge of computer hardware and software development and systems as they apply to the conception, specification, analysis, planning, development, installation, test, modification and use of data handling and computing systems in support of aerospace flight and ground systems.
- Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.
Database Administrator 3Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Critical Thinking: Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Database Administration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for automating, developing, implementing, or administering database systems.
- Database Management Systems: Knowledge of the uses of database management systems and software to control the organization, storage, retrieval, security, and integrity of data.
- Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Information Technology Architecture: Knowledge of architectural methodologies used in the design and development of information systems, including the physical structure of a system's internal operations and interactions with other systems.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training and/or education in computer science, software engineering, database administration, data analysis, information technology, or similar area or experience in computer programming, designing database queries, data analysis, and/or database administration.
Special Note: "Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
"Training" and "education" are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.
"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class. Additional Required Information At the time of the interview, please provide the following: - Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
- Current performance evaluation, if available.
- A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.
Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS For your application to be evaluated, you
must answer the Supplemental Questions.
FLEXIBLY STAFFEDThis position is flexibly staffed. This vacancy may be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 levels, depending on the applicant's training and/or experience. The full range of salaries is listed above. The starting salary will be determined by the position level. If filled at a lower level, promotion to the higher level will only occur upon successful completion of the probationary period and the required training, provided the applicant meets the minimum qualifications of the higher job class and receives final approval from the supervisor.
EDUCATIONTo verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATIONIf education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.
It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.
WORK EXPERIENCEWhen using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, a
