Database Administrator / Data Engineer

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Job Summary:

What you'll do

• Own and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, indexing strategies, and ongoing health monitoring.

• Ensure database reliability and availability through backup/recovery strategies, high availability configurations (e.g., Always On), disaster recovery planning, and incident response.

• Optimize database performance by analyzing execution plans, tuning queries, managing statistics, and proactively identifying bottlenecks across OLTP and analytical workloads.

• Manage security and compliance including role-based access control, encryption, auditing, and adherence to internal data governance standards.

• Design and implement data migration strategies to transition workloads from on-prem or MSSQL environments to modern cloud platforms such as Amazon Redshift and S3-based lake architectures.

• Develop and maintain cloud-native data pipelines, leveraging tools such as dbt, AWS Glue (if applicable), and SQL-based ELT patterns to transform and model data in Redshift and S3 tables.

• Partner with analytics, BI, and data science teams to design scalable, well-modeled datasets that support reporting, forecasting, and advanced analytics use cases.

• Participate in data governance and lake management best practices using AWS Lake Formation, including cataloging, fine-grained access control, and metadata management.

• Contribute to and enhance monitoring, observability, and cost optimization practices across both SQL Server and cloud data platforms to ensure performance, scalability, and efficient resource utilization.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems as needed.

• Document architecture, standards, and operational procedures while contributing to the long-term strategy of modernizing the organization's data platform.

About you

• You are passionate about data and enabling business stakeholders with solutions empowered with data.

• You believe that talent and abilities can be developed through practice and feedback. You proactively explore data and engineering communities for learning opportunities and engage with fellow team members to seek personal and professional growth

• You leverage AI-assisted development tools and automation thoughtfully to improve productivity and engineering quality.

• You have demonstrated experience of modernizing legacy systems and driving measurable business impact through improved data platforms. You've worked with numerous database solutions and have worked to modernize a company's core technology to achieve positive business outcomes

• You are a highly skilled hands-on database administrator with strong data engineering skills, having supported enterprise-class databases, and platforms that are scalable supporting high-volume throughput

• You function well within a team and enjoy collaborating with others, across disciplines, to deliver results

• You understand cloud-native services and partner with the engineering team to optimize cloud database solutions.

• You have experience working within Agile development methodologies and practices (Agile/Scrum, Lean/Kanban, CI/CD) and have participated in team flow and value delivery in previous roles

• You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (preferably engineering, computer science, information systems) or comparable work experience or military experience.

• Microsoft DBA certification preferred.

• Other relevant certifications such as AWS (Cloud practitioner, Data Engineer) are a plus.

Work Experience

• 5+ years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in production environments, including performance tuning, indexing, backup/recovery, and high availability configurations (e.g., Always On, clustering).

• Strong proficiency in T-SQL, including writing and optimizing complex queries, stored procedures, and troubleshooting execution plans.

• Experience managing database security, including role-based access control, encryption, auditing, and compliance best practices.

• Demonstrated experience with database performance monitoring and troubleshooting tools.

• Hands-on experience with AWS data services, including Amazon Redshift and S3-based data storage.

• Experience building and maintaining ELT/ETL pipelines, preferably using SQL-first transformation frameworks such as dbt.

• Working knowledge of data lake architectures, including partitioning strategies, file formats (Parquet, Iceberg, etc.), and metadata/catalog management (e.g., AWS Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog).

• Strong understanding of data modeling principles (dimensional modeling, star schemas, normalization vs. denormalization).

• Experience supporting analytics or BI workloads in a cloud data warehouse environment.

• Proficiency in Python or another scripting language for automation and data processing tasks.

Skills

• Strong organizational and time management skills; detail-oriented

• Project Management capabilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including delivering effective presentations

• Self-starter with a diligent work ethic and demonstrated flexibility

• Able to multi-task and stay calm under pressure

• Able to identify causes of issues and work quickly to resolve them

Competency

• Business Acumen: Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting their business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can't; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

• Innovation Management: Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

• Technical Leadership: Drives technical excellence within their team(s) and provides technological leadership to ensure the right solutions are delivered in a cost effective, timely manner. Brings the most out of our technology and drives toward advancements in our technological landscape.

• Driving Adoption: Focuses on the adoption of technology products, services, and solutions with stakeholders, ensuring that the technology is easily understood, is not intimidating to users, and can be consumed with minimal learning curve.

Physical Demands

The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• Employee must have the ability to sit and/or stand at a desk for a minimum of 8 hours a day and complete tasks requiring repetitive use of hands

• Employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens and to adjust focus

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