Senior SQL Server Data Engineer — Cloud & Performance

U.S. Bank; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 112,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick and Safe Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to architect, optimize, and modernize enterprise SQL Server platforms supporting high-volume transactional systems.

The role emphasizes database performance engineering, automation, cloud integration, and scalable data architecture rather than traditional DBA tasks. Responsibilities include designing databases, tuning performance, resolving concurrency issues, and implementing features like Query Store, CDC, and In-Memory OLTP, while driving CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop SQL Server databases, stored procedures, functions, views, and ETL solutions.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve locking, blocking, deadlocks, concurrency, and performance bottlenecks.
• Design scalable data models and database architectures for large-scale OLTP environments.
• Collaborate with application teams on database design, data access patterns, and performance best practices.
• Implement modern SQL Server capabilities including Query Store, Columnstore Indexes, CDC, Temporal Tables, and In-Memory OLTP.
• Drive database automation, CI/CD deployments, and modernization initiatives using DevOps tools.
• Lead production issue resolution, root cause analysis, and establish database engineering standards.

Skills

SQL Server

T-SQL

Query optimization

Performance tuning

Indexing

Partitioning

OLTP systems

Azure SQL

Microsoft Fabric

Cloud database platforms

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

PowerShell automation

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Databricks

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL Server 2019/2022/2025

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to architect, optimize, and modernize enterprise SQL Server platforms supporting high-volume transactional systems.

The role emphasizes database performance engineering, automation, cloud integration, and scalable data architecture rather than traditional DBA tasks. Responsibilities include designing databases, tuning performance, resolving concurrency issues, and implementing features like Query Store, CDC, and In-Memory OLTP, while driving CI/CD