Role overview Work time zone
- U.
S. Central / Mountain hours This role is the senior authority on our Microsoft SQL Server estate. It covers mission-critical, multi-tenant production databases that serve mortgage lenders and financial institutions. You will own the architecture of the platform, including HA/DR design, performance standards, security controls and change governance. You will also lead the database workstream of our migration to new hosted private-cloud and Azure environments, from planning and rehearsals through production cutover and stabilization. You will act as technical lead and mentor for a team of contract DBAs. You will be the final escalation point for database incidents and the person customers, auditors and leadership rely on database answers. The role includes a structured handover from the current senior DBA through December 31, 2026.

Key responsibilities
Architecture and platform ownership
• Own the target-state architecture for SQL Server 2019/2025 and Azure SQL (Database, Managed Instance, SQL Server on VMs) across production, DR and non-production.
• Design, build and govern Always On Availability Groups, WSFC and log shipping; set and prove RTO/RPO for every production tier through scheduled failover and recovery drills.
• Define database standards: instance configuration, patching cadence, backup policy, index and statistics maintenance, and naming and security baselines.
• Lead capacity planning and storage forecasting; present growth and cost projections to IT leadership. Migration leadership
• Lead the database workstream of the data center and cloud migration: inventory, dependency mapping, sequencing, runbooks and go/no-go criteria.
• Plan and run migration rehearsals, data freezes, replication and synchronization, validation and reconciliation, cutover, and rollback.
• Keep customer-facing downtime within approved maintenance windows; act as database lead on cutover bridges.



Performance engineering
• Be the escalation point for the hardest performance problems: execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, Extended Events and DMVs.
• Work with development teams to fix ORM anti-patterns, N+1 queries, blocking chains and lock contention at the code and schema level.
• Set performance baselines and SLA-aligned alerting thresholds. Security, compliance and governance
• Own database security design: role-based access, least privilege, auditing, TDE and encryption, and AD/Kerberos authentication.
• Produce database evidence for client due diligence, SOC 2 and security questionnaires.
• Approve schema migrations, deployment scripts and production changes through the formal change management process. Leadership and operations
• Act as technical lead for contract DBAs: assign work, review changes and runbooks, and coach on standards.
• Serve as final escalation in the on-call rotation; lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews for database outages.
• Drive automation of routine DBA work with PowerShell (dbatools), SQL Agent and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks and the team knowledge base. Required skills and experience
• 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience, including 3+ years as senior or lead DBA for mission-critical production environments (financial services strongly preferred).
• Expert-level SQL Server 2019/2022/2025 on Windows Server 2019/2022, including installation, configuration, patching and version upgrades.




• Has designed (not only supported) Always On Availability Groups and WSFC across production and DR sites, including multi-subnet and failover testing.
• Has led at least two production database migrations of multi-terabyte or 50+ database scale, on-premises to cloud or between data centers, including cutover and rollback planning.
• Advanced T-SQL and performance tuning: execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, Extended Events, DMVs, index design and partitioning of very large tables.
• Backup and recovery design with proven point-in-time restores and DR exercises against defined RTO/RPO.
• Windows Server administration, Active Directory and Kerberos authentication (SPNs, delegation) for SQL Server.
• Hands-on Azure SQL experience (Managed Instance and/or Azure SQL Database), including hybrid connectivity.
• PowerShell automation for DBA tasks at scale.
• Has led and mentored other DBAs, including reviewing their work and setting standards.
• Works within ITIL change, incident and problem management; comfortable presenting to customers and auditors. Desirable qualifications
• Microsoft DP-300 (Azure Database Administrator Associate), legacy MCSE Data Management & Analytics, or Azure Solutions Architect certification.
• DBA tools, Redgate SQL Monitor, SolarWinds DPA, SentryOne or equivalent monitoring platforms.
• APM tools (Dynatrace, Recent Relic, Datadog) and correlating application traces with database diagnostics.
• Database CI/CD (Flyway, Liquibase, Redgate Deploy, Azure DevOps).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep) for database platforms.
• SSIS in a data warehousing or reporting context.
• Experience with mortgage, banking or other regulated financial data, and with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI or GLBA controls.
• Secondary platforms such as PostgreSQL or Oracle.

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