Overview
Remote
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
SQL Server
Query Tuning
Stored Procedures
ORM Implementations
EF Core
Dapper
Aurora PostgreSQL
Amazon Q
TSQL
Job Details
Sr. SQL Server Developer / Data Engineer REMOTE Charlotte NC Preferred
About our Customer:
Our direct customer, a global Fortune 500 company & a leader in the Food Services industry is looking for Senior SQL Server Developer / Data Engineer ( to Modernize a legacy SQL Server data layer by translating complex joins and procedures into optimized, scalable patterns for containerized services.
Responsibilities:
- Play a critical role in ensuring high-performance data access and preparing the system for eventual migration to cloud services.
- Refactor SQL stored procedures for performance and maintainability
- Refactor and optimize existing stored procedures for high-throughput workloads on Microsoft SQL Server
- Build repository layers and support ORM implementations (EF Core, Dapper)
- Translate temp-table and batch logic to in-memory or cached patterns
- Prepare data access logic for compatibility with Aurora PostgreSQL
- Collaborate with backend developers to define efficient access patterns
- Monitor, tune, and benchmark critical database queries
Qualifications:
- 5+ years working with SQL Server, query tuning, and indexing strategies
- Expertise in analyzing and optimizing stored procedures and execution plans
- Experience with EF Core, Dapper, or similar ORMs
- Solid understanding of normalized schemas, transactional integrity, and data modeling
- Knowledge of Postgres or Aurora PostgreSQL is a strong plus
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment leveraging Agile principles
- Understand how to write test and structure SQL process query
- Examine execution plans, indexing its choosing, and optimizing the performance of those things
- Development Tools: TSQL development, Visual studio database tools, AI tool - Amazon Q preferred (Any prompting is good)
- Understanding how to understand execution plan
- Look at series of tables, understand the joins, what indexes are appropriate or inappropriate
- Ability to simply complexity
- Strong at using AI for optimizing SQL (amazon Q)
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