Senior Database Architect: SQL Server, Azure & Data Fabric

Energy Bay Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive training and mentorship

Job summary

Energy Bay in Sydney seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own the SQL Server estate, oversee the Fabric data workspace, and lead cloud migration initiatives with the Infra team. You’ll ensure secure, reliable data for core systems and BI reporting while guiding ETL pipelines and data quality practices.

You’ll bring 5+ years in a senior DBA role, strong T-SQL and data modelling, plus experience migrating to Azure and working with Fabric/Data Factory to support enterprise reporting needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years with Microsoft SQL Server in a senior DBA or data platform role.
• Experience migrating databases to Azure and building ETL pipelines in Fabric or Data Factory.
• Strong T-SQL, data modelling and reporting support with Power BI.
• Ability to define data standards, access controls and data quality processes.
• Excellent communication, able to explain data to non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Own the SQL Server estate: performance, availability, backup, recovery and security.
• Own the Fabric workspaces: data, pipelines and scheduled refreshes.
• Monitor capacity, cost, tune queries and indexes across SQL and Fabric.
• Plan and deliver SQL Server migration to Azure SQL/MI with the infra engineer.
• Test, validate and cut over databases with no data loss.
• Design and maintain ETL pipelines, dataflows and notebooks in Fabric/Data Factory.
• Define and manage raw, cleansed and curated data layers for reporting.
• Monitor pipelines/refresh runs and resolve failures quickly.
• Set data standards, access controls and data quality checks; maintain data dictionaries.
• Collaborate with Dev team on schema design, releases and data requirements.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL

Data modelling

Power BI

Data governance

Data quality

Security & backup

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science

Azure DP-300 desirable

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure SQL / Managed Instance

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Energy Bay in Sydney seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own the SQL Server estate, oversee the Fabric data workspace, and lead cloud migration initiatives with the Infra team. You’ll ensure secure, reliable data for core systems and BI reporting while guiding ETL pipelines and data quality practices.

You’ll bring 5+ years in a senior DBA role, strong T-SQL and data modelling, plus experience migrating to Azure and working with Fabric/Data Factory to support enterprise reporting needs.