Urgent Hiring | SQL DBA | Gurgaon | Immediate Joiners preferred.

EXL; Pune District, Gurugram District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring program

Training & development

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

EXL Analytics is seeking a seasoned SQL Database Administrator to join our Pune-based team. The role focuses on administering Microsoft SQL Server across development, test and production, ensuring performance, security, backup and disaster recovery, and seamless migrations to cloud platforms.

The candidate will work closely with BI developers and data engineers, optimize ETL and data models, automate routine tasks with T-SQL and PowerShell, and mentor junior DBAs in a fast-paced, offshore

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Required).
• 7+ years hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server (2016+) in enterprise production environments (Required).
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, indexing, execution plans, and troubleshooting blocking, deadlocks, and resource contention (Required).
• Backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery configurations (Always On, clustering) (Required).
• Proficiency in T-SQL and PowerShell scripting for automation, monitoring, and deployment (Required).
• Experience with SSIS, SSRS, or SSAS and BI platforms like Power BI/Tableau (Preferred).
• Experience with Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance or other cloud data platforms (Preferred).
• Familiarity with insurance data domains and ITIL incident/problem/change processes (Preferred).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences (Required).
• Ability to work in offshore delivery model with US overlap; on-call rotations (Required).

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Microsoft SQL Server across environments.
• Monitor database health, availability, and performance; proactively resolve issues.
• Tune queries, indexes, and execution plans; optimize ETL and BI data models.
• Design and test backup, restore, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Manage database security including RBAC, encryption, auditing, and masking.
• Support migrations to Azure SQL/Managed Instance and other cloud platforms.
• Automate routine tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own incident, problem, and change management; provide clear updates during escalations.
• Maintain runbooks, data dictionaries, and data governance.
• Collaborate with BI developers and data engineers; mentor junior DBAs.

Skills

Performance tuning

Indexing strategies

Execution plans

Blocking & deadlocks

Backup & recovery

High availability

Security & compliance

T-SQL scripting

PowerShell scripting

CI/CD automation

Azure SQL / cloud

BI integration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field

Tools

SSIS

SSRS

SSAS

PowerShell

T-SQL

CI/CD tooling

Azure SQL

Job description

SQL Database Administrator (DBA)

EXL (NASDAQ:EXLS) is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps businesses enhance growth and profitability in the face of relentless competition and continuous disruption. Using our proprietary, award-winning Business EXLerator Framework, which integrates analytics, automation, benchmarking, BPO, consulting, industry best practices and technology platforms, we look deeper to help companies improve global operations, enhance data-driven insights, increase customer satisfaction, and manage risk and compliance. EXL serves the insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, utilities, travel, transportation and logistics industries. Headquartered in New York, New York, EXL has more than 24,000 professionals in locations throughout the United States, Europe, Asia (primarily India and Philippines), Latin America, Australia and South Africa.

EXL Analytics provides data-driven, action-oriented solutions to business problems through statistical data mining, cutting edge analytics techniques and a consultative approach. Leveraging proprietary methodology and best-of-breed technology, EXL Analytics takes an industry-specific approach to transform our clients decision making and embed analytics more deeply into their business processes. Our global footprint of nearly 2,000 data scientists and analysts assist client organizations with complex risk minimization methods, advanced marketing, pricing and CRM strategies, internal cost analysis, and cost and resource optimization within the organization. EXL Analytics serves the insurance, healthcare, banking, capital markets, utilities, retail and e-commerce, travel, transportation and logistics industries.

Please visit www.exlservice.com for more information about EXL Analytics.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Microsoft SQL Server instances across development, test, and production environments that support insurance policy, claims, billing, and analytics workloads.


• Monitor database health, availability, and performance using native tools and monitoring platforms, and proactively resolve issues before they affect business users or downstream reporting.


• Tune queries, indexes, statistics, and execution plans, and partner with developers and data engineers to optimize stored procedures, ETL jobs, and BI data models.


• Design, implement, and regularly test backup, restore, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions (such as Always On Availability Groups, log shipping, and failover clustering) to meet agreed RPO and RTO targets.


• Manage database security, including role-based access control, encryption, auditing, and masking of sensitive policyholder and claimant data, in line with client, regulatory, and EXL information security standards.


• Support migration and modernization initiatives, including moving SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, Managed Instance, or other cloud data platforms, and onboarding data to the enterprise data platform.


• Automate routine administration, deployment, and monitoring tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, and CI/CD pipelines, and maintain version-controlled database change management practices.


• Own incident, problem, and change management for database services, perform root cause analysis, and provide clear updates to technical and business stakeholders during escalations.


• Maintain accurate documentation, runbooks, and data dictionaries, and contribute to data governance activities such as ownership, lineage, and data quality controls.


• Collaborate with BI developers, data engineers, and architects on report rationalization and data product delivery, and mentor junior DBAs.

Candidate Profile:

• Immediate Joiners only- those who can join in October.


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (Required).


• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server (2016 or later) in enterprise production environments (Required).


• Strong expertise in performance tuning, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and troubleshooting blocking, deadlocks, and resource contention (Required).


• Proven experience with backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery configurations, including Always On Availability Groups and clustering (Required).


• Proficiency in T-SQL and PowerShell scripting for automation, monitoring, and deployment (Required).


• Working knowledge of database security, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements for sensitive personal and financial data (Required).


• Experience with SSIS, SSRS, or SSAS and with supporting BI and reporting platforms such as Power BI or Tableau (Preferred).


• Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or other cloud data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks, including migration projects (Preferred).


• Familiarity with property and casualty insurance data domains such as policy, claims, billing, and underwriting, and with insurance regulatory expectations (Strongly preferred).


• Exposure to data governance, metadata management, and data quality practices, and to ITIL-based incident, problem, and change processes (Preferred).


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to non-technical audiences (Required).


• Ability to work in an offshore delivery model with overlap with U.S. business hours and to participate in on-call rotations as needed (Required).

What we offer:

• EXL Analytics offers an exciting, fast paced and innovative environment, which brings together a group of sharp and entrepreneurial professionals who are eager to influence business decisions. From your very first day, you get an opportunity to work closely with highly experienced, world class analytics consultants.


• You can expect to learn many aspects of businesses that our clients engage in. You will also learn effective teamwork and time-management skills - key aspects for personal and professional growth


• Analytics requires different skill sets at different levels within the organization. At EXL Analytics, we invest heavily in training you in all aspects of analytics as well as in leading analytical tools and techniques.


• We provide guidance/ coaching to every employee through our mentoring program wherein every junior level employee is assigned a senior level professional as advisors.


• Sky is the limit for our team members. The unique experiences gathered at EXL Analytics sets the stage for further growth and development in our company and beyond.