Database Engineer - Single Digital Patient Record
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Salary: Up to $144,444.00 + 11.5% super, salary packaging, discounted fitness passport and additional days off!
Award Level: Health Manager Level 3
Location: Chatswood Office with access to offices in St Leonards and Charlestown
Applications Close: 11:59pm, Tuesday 8th July 2025
About Us – Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR), NSW Health
Be part of the team leading the largest digital transformation in Australia’s public health history. NSW Health’s SDPR program is transforming the way patient care is delivered and experienced - creating a single, secure, holistic, and integrated view of patient information across the entire state.
By connecting every corner of the NSW public health system, this groundbreaking program empowers clinicians and care teams with real-time access to unified patient data - enabling safer, more transparent, and quality care for every person, anywhere.
Join us now and contribute to the millions of ways we're enriching health every day.
About the Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity in our Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority (SDPRIA), for an Engineer - Database.
The SDPRIA Cloud Hosting Team is building the new mission critical system which clinicians across NSW Health rely on to provide 24 x 7 critical care. A key aspect of the role will be to contribute to a team supporting the core technology infrastructure for our new Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) electronic medical record, with a focus on the Amazon Web Services tier, which is the foundation application hosting platform for the SDPR program. SDPR will provide a secure, holistic, and integrated view of the care a patient receives across the NSW Health system, enabling clinicians to access a patient's medical information in real time from a single source.
In this role, your team will:
Support the core technology infrastructure for SDPR by:
- Taking accountability for the design, implementation, and operations of hosting the Epic software solution on the Amazon Web Services Public Cloud platform.
- Supporting the SDPR program's capability to deliver subsequent implementation schedules to time, budget, and quality.
- Deliver complex systems architecture and ensure the successful building, operating and running of products or platforms in alignment with relevant roadmaps.
- Deploy, and manage the foundational infrastructure for robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Account for optimisation, cost efficiency, integrations, and automation.
- Collaborate with the team to achieve cross-functional synergy, lifting the overall capability of the SDPR platform.
- Collaborate with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, including platform and product owners, solution architects, engineers, project team members, and SMEs from our partners.
More information about the Engineer – Database role, can be found in the POSITION DESCRIPTION.
About You
We are looking for someone who:
- Demonstrated experience in build and support of enterprise services on public cloud platforms in a shared services environment. Expertise in operating databases such as Oracle or SQL including monitoring, performance management, backups, ETL processes, operating systems (Windows or Linux) and public Cloud (Azure or AWS).
- Demonstrated experience with leading modern ICT Delivery and operational practices, including associated operating methodologies (such as Agile).
Need more information?
- Check out our diversity and inclusion commitment
- Learn more about our Single Digital Patient Record Program
Working at SDPRIA
Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:
- Flexible work options
- Professional growth and career development
- Allocated day off per month
- Salary packaging
- Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team
How to apply
Share with us your most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience along with responses to the following targeted question:
- Provide an example where you upgraded or migrated services to the Cloud. What problem were you solving through this process?
We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we welcome their use, we’re eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!
Role-specific enquiries: If you have any questions about the role, please contact the hiring manager Michael Ormerod via Michael.Ormerod@health.nsw.gov.au
General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: If you require assistance, have any questions about the recruitment or require adjustments to the recruitment/interview process, please contact Taylah Lagos via taylah.lagos@health.nsw.gov.au
Additional information
- This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
- To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
