Technical Lead/Team Lead – Database Technologies

Standout IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Standout IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Trivandrum seeks a Technical Lead/Team Lead for Database Technologies with 7–10 years of experience to drive the design and delivery of critical data systems.

You will mentor the database team, optimize SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL deployments, oversee performance tuning, and coordinate with clients across time zones, including night shifts. This role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and the ability to set engineering standards while

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of database technology experience.
• Strong fundamentals in database design and development.
• Hands-on with SQL Server (2012+).
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other RDBMS.
• Proficient in SQL, stored procedures, triggers, functions, views, indexes, normalization and transactions.
• Knowledge of CDC, SSIS, SSRS desirable.
• Experience in performance tuning and query optimization.
• Ability to design complex technical solutions and manage multiple environments (DEV/QA/Integration/UAT/Production).
• Experience in data porting and loading data from varied sources.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the database team.
• Plan and schedule work, prioritize workload, and ensure code quality.
• Review code and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with other platform leads to align SDLC practices.
• Interact with clients during calls and provide status updates.
• Coordinate with managers and report progress daily/weekly.
• Participate in technical sessions for appropriate audiences.

Skills

Database design

SQL Server

MySQL / PostgreSQL

SQL / Stored Procedures

Query optimization

ETL loading

Team leadership

Client communication

SDLC adherence

Job description

Technical Lead/Team Lead – Database Technologies Start Date 2016-02-01 End Date 2027-02-28 Location Trivandrum – Technopark Job Information

Desired Experience Level

7 – 10 Years

Tehnical

Essential Skills-

• Strong fundamentals in Database Design & Development.
• Good knowledge in MS SQLServer (including SQLServer 2012).
• Broad knowledge of other RDBMS technologies, particularly MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL. Significant experience of more than one of these.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL, Stored Procedure, Triggers, Functions, Views, Indexes, Normalization , Transactions, Distributed Transactions.
• Knowledge of CDC , SSIS, SSRS is desirable.
• Should have experience in performance optimization, query tuning and optimization.
• Ability to design complex technical solutions.
• Knowledge on working with various environments (DEV, QA, Integration, UAT, Production etc) and knowledge on deployment of database objects.
• Porting of data from one environment to another.
• Loading data of various formats from various sources into database.

Others

• Attention to detail.
• Proactive in prioritizing work and balancing work-load across the team.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral, and proven ability in producing documentation for a technical audience.
• Will have to schedule and participate in calls with the client on a periodic basis.
• Leadership and organizational skills with the ability to provide technical leadership & mentoring.
• Should be able to arbitrate disagreements among team members and make decisions where needed without damaging relationships.
• Responsible for code quality and code review, continuously evolving the organization level coding standards and development best practices.
• Will co-ordinate with Technical Lead/Team Leads of other platforms to continuously revise and monitor the code quality, best practices and SDLC methodologies.
• The development team would be working during night shift as well as Saturdays. Will have to remote manage the team over the phone in case of urgent situations.
• Client calls can be expected during the business hours of the client (US EST, CST & PST time zones) and therefore the Lead should be open to taking such calls during this time window.
• Ability to estimate effort is mandatory.
• Responsible for all deliverables to the client.
• Reports to Manager and the client with status reports on a daily and weekly basis.
• Conducting technical sessions for the appropriate audience

Desired Skills-

• A good techno-managerial experience would be ideal.
• Should be able to handle pressure and should have experience working in a very challenging environment.
• Experience in conducting technical interviews and recruiting technical resources.
• The ability to respond accurately to questions relating to policy and practice.