SQL Platform Leader: Scale Systems & Grow Your Team

Aeroflow Inc.; Asheville (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

Aeroflow Health is seeking an SQL Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for the Microsoft SQL Server platform powering core applications. You will partner with Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, and Product to ensure reliability, scalability, and secure data delivery while guiding architectural decisions.

The role emphasizes leadership (70%) and technical guidance (30%), with responsibilities spanning people development, strategic roadmapping, and hands-on

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or managing database or software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing SQL Engineering team.
• Create clear expectations through regular feedback, career development, succession planning, and performance management.
• Recruit, hire, and retain exceptional engineers while fostering accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Build an environment where engineers are empowered to make decisions while maintaining high technical standards.
• Build trusted partnerships across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Infrastructure, DBA, and business teams.
• Balance roadmap initiatives, operational support, technical debt, and platform improvements against business priorities.
• Clearly communicate priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner across teams to define practical solutions that improve both technology and business outcomes.
• Provide architectural leadership across Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission-critical business systems.
• Guide database architecture, schema design, T-SQL development, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
• Establish practical standards around source control, peer review, testing, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Improve platform reliability through root-cause analysis, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering and Product teams to establish reliable data contracts and protect downstream systems during database changes.

Skills

SQL Server

T‑SQL development

Database architecture

Leadership/People management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Git / Source control

Monitoring tooling

Automation tooling

Azure SQL / AWS RDS for SQL Server

Job description

Aeroflow Health is seeking an SQL Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for the Microsoft SQL Server platform powering core applications. You will partner with Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, and Product to ensure reliability, scalability, and secure data delivery while guiding architectural decisions.

The role emphasizes leadership (70%) and technical guidance (30%), with responsibilities spanning people development, strategic roadmapping, and hands-on