Senior Developer DBA: Architecture, Code & Mentorship

Aeroflow Inc.; Asheville, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health plans

401K with company match

Parental leave

Vacation and holidays

Job summary

Aeroflow Health is seeking a Developer DBA to join our Internal SQL Engineering team. You will shape database engineering standards, review code, and guide architecture across production applications and customer-facing systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive improvements in deployment practices, and grow a scalable, reliable data platform while balancing modernization with stability. Hybrid/remote options are supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional SQL engineering experience or 3+ years DBA-focused development.
• Deep production expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, including database architecture, data modeling, T‑SQL development, query optimization, and index optimization.
• Experience reviewing SQL code and establishing or improving engineering and development standards.
• Hands‑on experience with database deployments and modern database engineering workflows, including source control, CI/CD, deployment automation, testing, and monitoring.
• Experience with database modeling and designing maintainable schemas for production applications.
• Experience implementing or working with data contracts, APIs, or other defined interfaces between transactional databases and downstream consumers.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and mentor technical peers.

Responsibilities

• Code Review (~30%): Review SQL engineering work and help establish clear standards for high-quality, maintainable T-SQL, database design, and development practices.
• Architecture & Technical Consulting (~30%): Serve as a senior database resource to our Technology teams, helping engineers make sound decisions around schema design, implementation, performance, and database architecture.
• Coaching & Mentoring (~20%): Help raise the technical capability of the SQL Engineering team through practical guidance, feedback, knowledge sharing, and technical mentorship.
• Hands-On Development (~20%): Remain close to the code through T-SQL development, optimization, database modeling, and targeted platform improvements.
• Partner closely with Database Administration while maintaining a development-focused scope centered on query performance, T‑SQL logic, schema architecture, and reliability.
• Improve database engineering practices around source control, peer review, testing, documentation, CI/CD, deployment automation, and post‑deployment validation.

Skills

SQL expertise

Systems thinking

Pragmatic judgment

Technical influence

Operational discipline

Mentorship

Tools

DataDog

DPA

Flyway

Redgate

Liquibase

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Aeroflow Health is seeking a Developer DBA to join our Internal SQL Engineering team. You will shape database engineering standards, review code, and guide architecture across production applications and customer-facing systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive improvements in deployment practices, and grow a scalable, reliable data platform while balancing modernization with stability. Hybrid/remote options are supported.