Senior SQL Server Engineer – Cloud & DB Performance

US Bank; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid vacation

Parental leave

401(k)

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, optimize, and modernize enterprise SQL Server platforms. The role focuses on performance engineering, automation, cloud integration, and scalable data architecture for high-volume transactional systems.

Responsibilities include tuning queries, implementing modern features (Query Store, Columnstore, CDC, Temporal Tables, In-Memory OLTP), and driving CI/CD deployments while collaborating with application teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5–6 years of relevant experience in database engineering.
• Strong SQL Server and T‑SQL expertise.

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

Performance tuning

Data modeling

ETL

Azure SQL

CI/CD

PowerShell

DevOps

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

PowerShell

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, optimize, and modernize enterprise SQL Server platforms. The role focuses on performance engineering, automation, cloud integration, and scalable data architecture for high-volume transactional systems.

Responsibilities include tuning queries, implementing modern features (Query Store, Columnstore, CDC, Temporal Tables, In-Memory OLTP), and driving CI/CD deployments while collaborating with application teams across the organization.