Lead MS SQL Developer

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design & development: Build robust schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and ETL/ELT pipelines in Microsoft SQL Server (Azure SQL, Managed Instance).
• Performance & reliability: Profile and tune queries, indexes, and execution plans;
• come up with solutions to improve the performance to meet SLAs.
• Data quality & governance: Implement constraints, validation, and auditing; contribute to data standards, naming conventions, and documentation.
• Integration: Build and maintain integrations with upstream/downstream systems and ensure transactional integrity.
• Collaboration: Work with application engineers and analysts to translate requirements into scalable database solutions; participate in code/design reviews.
• Support: Respond to any production issues with urgency.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in SQL programming.
• Expert TSQL skills (set-based programming, window functions, CTEs, error handling, dynamic SQL, MERGE).
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing, deployment, and documentation activities.
• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing MS SQL Server database objects.
• 8+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including independent analysis, coding, testing, and deployment.
• 8+ years of experience working with SQL Management Studio.
• Experience with ETL/ELT (SSIS or modern alternatives) and scheduling/orchestration.
• 8+ years of combined experience developing solutions with relational database technologies.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Ability to debug complex stored procedures.
• Knowledge of file transmission methods such as SFTP.
• Understanding of batch command /PowerShell scripts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to understand C# code.
• Exposure to NoSQL stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Redis, Couchbase)