Job Description

Within the Digital Program at MSI IT, we're passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our Sr. Database Development Lead (DDLs) to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand our customer deployments, we are currently seeking a DDL to understand our IT systems and applications data requirements and help build recent applications or enhance existing applications databases. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction. As a DDL, you will be responsible for business and IT stakeholders interaction, requirements analysis, designing the systems, lead the development efforts and of the Digital Transformation platform & help us meet the business requirements, enrich the customer experience and satisfaction and improve the quality and integrity of the software applications and associated data.

Objectives of this Role:

- Interact with various IT and business stakeholders, teams to understand various applications and data flow.
- Identify business and IT needs and translate them into the technical and functional requirements.
- Develop software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications data
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions and associated data.
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continuous improvement




- Provide support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications and databases.
- Keep applications, software, hardware and databases up to date.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

- Partner with development teams to deliver the planned deliverables
- Meet with IT leaders to discuss project goals, solution quality, schedule and progress, and the overall client relationship.
- Estimate the work required to implement a module of a project and its data needs.
- Test your work and review team members work and give constructive feedback on improvements.
- Serve as the technical lead on multiple active project initiatives.
- Assist in the creation of design documents and key artifacts for the project.
- Leverage internal tools, standards, and processes for the development work.
- Help peers and junior team members debug code or resolve technical problems.
- Drive client satisfaction through repeated project delivery successes and strategic engagement.

Additional Accountabilities:

- Complex Issue Triage (Across multiple technology platforms and vendors)
- Database performance improvement and data cleanup
- Establish best practices for performance and stability
- Conduct monthly reviews to review trends and change recommendations
- Review and maintain list of corrective actions





Basic Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline.
- 9+ years of software development experience using PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL databases.
- Extensive RDBMS database working knowledge on DDL, DML SQLs, Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, views development in various databases.
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
- Expertise in various DB administration and development tools such as Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Workbench, Oracle Toad, SQL Plus, pgAdmin4, Flyway, and DBeaver.
- Experience in developing, testing/debugging database scripts/jobs in e-Commerce, Services, finance, billing and payment, user and account management, insurance, banking domains.
- Experience in developing, testing/debugging various database objects.
- Hands-on experience of database migrations and upgrades.
- Familiarity with responsive design/development best practices.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS.
- Exposure to lead the software development team and mentor them to build a high performing team.
- Should be able to manage work independently.
- Must be familiar with various types of testing, defect prevention activities & Quality Management.
- Hands-on experience in various AI tools like GH Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Cursor, etc.
- Well aware of CI/CD processes and having experience using DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Git, Confluence, version control, etc.

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