Senior Azure Database Engineer

MasterApp Labs LLC; Town of Lansing (NY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

MasterApp Labs LLC in Lansing, MI is seeking a Senior Azure Database Engineer (contract, hybrid onsite from day 1, two onsite days a week). This SME role focuses on CEPI SLDS data warehouse, data administration, and coordinating ETL migration to cloud environments.

Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, data analysis, modeling, security, and disaster recovery, while collaborating with developers and stakeholders to deliver robust, high‑quality data solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in database engineering and data warehousing.
• Strong experience with SQL Server, ETL, and data modeling.
• Experience with CEDS standard is a plus.
• Ability to design and implement data pipelines and ensure data quality.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and expands data pipelines with ETL activities.
• Data analysis, data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning.
• Uses SQL to define objects and control access; tests and refines changes.
• Directs programmers and analysts to modify the database system and ensure data integrity.
• Develops ETLs and data models; coordinates data loading and transformation tasks.
• Supports disaster recovery and enforces database security standards.

Skills

Azure Database services

SQL Data Modeling

ETL development

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Scrum

Tools

SQL Server

SQL Reporting Services

Job description

Job Title: Senior Azure Database Engineer

Location: Lansing, MI, (Hybrid)-Onsite from day 1, two days a week. Required onsite days are Wednesdays and Thursdays

Position Type: Contract

Interview Mode: 1st round MS Teams & may be a 2nd round of interviews held in person

Additional Requirements

References are required for this position. Please include a separate attachment with your submission that includes 2-3 professional references. Each reference should include the name, email, phone number, and their position title/company name.

The Database Environment Includes

• Multiple SQL Server instances
• Multiple Collection Environments (Development, Quality Assurance/Testing, Pre-Release, and Production)
• Numerous SQL Reporting Services Servers
• 35+ collection databases
• 100+ analysis databases

This position is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the CEPI SLDS data warehouse and requires considerable independent judgment directing and coordinating the appropriate data administration and management methods, practices, procedures and tools, to complete the required assignments. Expertise is required in Microsoft SQL Server database support, and professional knowledge on CEDS standard.

This position is heavily involved with strategic and tactical information design, the analysis of business areas, security, and data modeling to meet data collection needs and the transition of ETL process from on premise to cloud servers. Responsibility includes the identification, analysis, categorizing, synthesis, design, and productive use of business information. In addition, this position is responsible for enforcing/ensuring that the architectural frameworks are properly implemented and enforced, monitoring and upgrading the server infrastructure that supports the database environment.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and continuously expands/maintains data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities. Responsible for data preparation jobs, data analysis and data reporting. Performs technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis and provides technical expertise for ETL jobs. Collaborates with developers. business and other team members to design and deliver correct high-quality data and to provide advice and support.
• Responsible for data analysis and database management. Involved in maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning. Knowledge of the utilities and production tools used for data storage management to support the Application Team. Coordinates physical changes to computer databases; codes, tests, and implements physical database, applying knowledge of data base management system.
• Establishes physical database parameters. Uses structured query language (SQL) to define database objects using database definition language (DDL) and control access to database objects using data control language (DCL). Tests and corrects errors and refines changes to database.
• Enter SQL to create production data base. Uses database utility programs and 3rd party utilities to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems.
• Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and prototyping. Responsible for the development of ETLs. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures.
• Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.

Top 3 skills needed:

Azure Database services, SQL Data Modeling/structure, Extensive ETL development experience.

Minimum Years experience required: 12

Required / Must Have

• TSQL: 8-10 years
• ETL development: 6-8 years
• PowerShell: 5 years
• Azure DevOps: 5 years
• Scrum: 5 years