Job Description & Responsibilities
SQL Server & Database Development
- Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft SQL Server (2016/2017/2019).
- Expertise in T‑SQL development including complex queries, joins, subqueries, CTEs, and window functions.
- Experience in writing and optimizing stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers.
- Strong understanding of database normalization and schema design.
- Ability to analyze and improve query performance using execution plans.
- Experience with indexes, partitioning, and performance tuning techniques.
- Knowledge of transactions, locking, blocking, and isolation levels.
- Familiarity with tempdb usage and optimization.
- Experience in handling large datasets and high‑volume transactional systems.
- Understanding of data security, roles, permissions, and encryption.
SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
- Strong hands‑on experience in SSIS package development.
- Experience in building ETL pipelines for data extraction, transformation, and loading.
- Proficiency in using Data Flow Tasks, Control Flow Tasks, and Containers.
- Experience with Lookup, Merge, Conditional Split, Derived Column, and Aggregate transformations.
- Ability to handle incremental and full data loads.
- Experience in error handling, logging, and checkpoint implementation in SSIS.
- Knowledge of SSIS parameters, variables, and expressions.
- Experience deploying SSIS packages using SSIS Catalog (SSISDB).
- Familiarity with SSIS package scheduling via SQL Server Agent.
- Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning SSIS packages.
- Knowledge of Flat File, Excel, XML, and JSON data sources.
- Experience with FTP/SFTP integration in SSIS.
- Understanding of data validation and reconciliation techniques.
Deployment, Monitoring & Support
- Experience with job scheduling and monitoring via SQL Server Agent.
- Ability to support production deployments and incident resolution.
- Experience in version control systems (Git, TFS, Azure DevOps).
- Knowledge of deployment best practices across Dev, QA, and Prod environments.
- Experience working with DBA teams for performance and capacity planning.
- Ability to prepare technical documentation and SOPs.