Job Description

Your opportunity
By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe® Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients!
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for the design, configuration, and resilience of our database infrastructure. You will play a critical role in ensuring data integrity and accessibility across our OnPrem and Cloud environments as we scale our operations. This is a senior role where you will use your deep technical expertise to drive architectural decisions, mentor technical peers, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure our data systems support the manufacturing and commercial environment.
Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of
Your responsibilities will include:
• Drive Architectural Strategy: Advise on database architecture and validation strategy decisions for OnPrem (SQL Server) and Cloud (Azure) platforms.
• Ensure High Availability: Design and manage SQL Server clusters and high-availability systems to support critical manufacturing and development operations.
• Execute Technical Projects: Drive complex DB projects where specialized expertise is required, including Data Warehouse expansion and scaling support for new sites and shifts.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Provide technical mentorship and cross-training to peers to build technical redundancy and eliminate single points of failure.
• Optimize Performance: Monitor and tune server-level parameters, indexes, and queries to ensure optimal performance across all client databases.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to identify data requirements and ensure system alignment with operational goals.
• Maintain Data Security: Design and maintain robust backup and recovery strategies, including redundancy plans and encryption, to ensure data protection.
• Compliance and Validation: Ensure all database documentation and changes meet the rigorous standards required for medical device compliance (ISO/FDA).
• Consultancy Coordination: Work with external consultancy support when specialized technical input is needed for strategic initiatives.

What you bring to the team
Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable.
You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration within an enterprise environment.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server (2008-2022), T-SQL, and Azure SQL environments.
• Proven experience managing SQL clusters and high-availability systems in a production-critical setting.
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring technical peers and sharing domain expertise.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to various departments.
• Rigor in maintaining high code quality, technical documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working in a regulated industry (e.g., medical devices, aerospace) where validation protocols are required is a strong asset.

Compensation
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% Retirement Savings Plan contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.
As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.
• $106,000 - $125,000 CAD

Your Benefits & Well-being
The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus an annual contribution to a Retirement Savings Plan account to help support your financial goals.
Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.
Work-day flexibility – we offer a flexible work environment for daily working hours. In addition, we provide 3 personal days per year.
Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.
Family building – we provide top up for maternity leave, adoptive leave, and parental leave for non-birthing parents. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.
Career progression and learning support.
Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium
What makes us a great place to work?
1. Our Purpose
2. Our People
3. Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.
We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Irish ERG, Brazilian ERG, and Early Career at Kardium ERG.
As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!