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SQL Server Database Architect
Echo IT Solutions, Inc
Location not stated
Remote
1 month ago
- Microsoft SQL Server
- T-SQL
- CI/CD
- SQL
- Azure SQL
- AWS
- RDS
- IaC
- Devops
- ETL
- Microsoft Access
- AI
1 month ago
Role: SQL Server Database Architect
Location: 100% Remote
Duration:12+ Months
Experience required: 10+ years
Hourly rate: $90/hr. W2 no benefits
Technical Leadership
- 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 for Success
- Builds high-performing engineering teams through coaching, accountability, and trust.
- Demonstrates excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
- Makes thoughtful technical decisions that balance innovation with operational stability.
- Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to technical and business audiences.
- Creates predictable engineering execution through prioritization, planning, and strong operational discipline.
- Understands how database architecture, application behavior, infrastructure, and business processes work together.
- Promotes continuous improvement without introducing unnecessary complexity.
- Remains calm and decisive when navigating competing priorities and production challenges.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, or managing database or software engineers.
- Demonstrated success with hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, and difficult conversations.
- Deep production experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including database architecture, schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and T-SQL development.
- Experience establishing engineering standards across enterprise SQL environments.
- Experience improving engineering workflows through source control, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational tooling.
- Experience leading delivery across roadmap initiatives, operational support, technical debt, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Experience partnering effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to influence priorities across multiple teams and build trusted working relationships.
You Might Also Have
- Experience leading database modernization or platform transformation initiatives.
- Experience with Azure SQL, AWS RDS for SQL Server, Infrastructure as Code, or DevOps automation.
- Experience supporting highly available or regulated production environments.
- Knowledge of data warehousing, ETL, analytics platforms, or enterprise Microsoft Access applications.
- Experience implementing data contracts or API-style interfaces between transactional databases and downstream systems.
- Experience responsibly leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software development or operational workflows.
What We Look For
- We're looking for a leader who is equally comfortable coaching an engineer, influencing a stakeholder, and making a difficult technical decision.
The strongest candidates will:
- Develop engineers while maintaining high performance standards.
- Build trust across technical and business teams.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions grounded in business value.
- Balance operational excellence with thoughtful modernization.
- Communicate directly, collaborate effectively, and lead with humility.
SQL Server Database Architect · Echo IT Solutions, Inc