Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer

Deep and current Microsoft SQL Server administration — this is the core of the role

Recent hands-on experience with full SQL Server installation and configuration on a server you manage yourself — Windows Server on EC2 or on-premise — not a managed service such as RDS or Azure SQL. Must include OS-level work beneath a live production instance.

Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations

Most recent SQL Server upgrade performed, stated on the profile: source and target versions, in-place or side-by-side, year, and the Windows Server version pairing. Career-span claims without versions will not be considered.

SQL Server high availability — Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering

MySQL administration

AWS — EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch

AI proficiency (e.g. Claude) applied to day-to-day work

7+ years of experience

Prior end-to-end ownership of a production database estate, including assessing an inherited environment and driving it to a measurably better state

Experience setting data standards and reviewing schema and data-access design across application teams

Snowflake administration and development — preferred; our data engineering team covers Snowflake day to day

ETL pipelines and tools (e.g. Rivery, dbt)

Data warehouse design and development

Data lake on S3

BI/analytics and tools (e.g. Metabase, QuickSight)

Data governance and data quality practice

SQL Server migration to a managed service (RDS or equivalent)