Senior Data Platform Engineer: SQL & Tableau, Onsite

Christ Panos Foods Inc.; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Panos Foods is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to manage and optimize our Microsoft SQL Server environments and enterprise reporting systems.

The role focuses on database administration, performance tuning, reliability, and troubleshooting in a production environment, with hands-on Tableau Cloud support and data pipelines. The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and capable of independently diagnosing complex issues.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration in production environments.
• Advanced SQL skills, including query optimization, execution plan analysis, and performance tuning.
• Experience with database maintenance, backups, recovery, security, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on Tableau Cloud administration, including data extracts, refreshes, permissions, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing or troubleshooting row-level security in Tableau and SQL Server.
• ETL development using SSIS and/or Azure Data Factory.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments.
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues via queries, execution plans, indexes, and server resources.
• Manage backups, recovery, security, data integrity, and high availability.
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, migrations, and ongoing performance optimization.
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
• Administer Tableau Cloud including data sources, extracts, refresh schedules, permissions, and performance.

Skills

MS SQL Server administration

SQL query optimization

Performance tuning

Backups and recovery

Row-level security

ETL with SSIS/ADF

Analytical problem solving

Communication to stakeholders

Tools

Tableau Cloud

Job description

Panos Foods is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to manage and optimize our Microsoft SQL Server environments and enterprise reporting systems.

The role focuses on database administration, performance tuning, reliability, and troubleshooting in a production environment, with hands-on Tableau Cloud support and data pipelines. The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and capable of independently diagnosing complex issues.