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Position: Senior SQL Server Developer — Production SQL Owner Focus: Hands-on T-SQL development + live production performance troubleshooting, NOT a BI / ETL / Data Warehouse role, NOT a monitoring-only DBA role Experience: 8+ years Work Hours: 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM IST during the initial onboarding and transition period (1–2 months), and 6:00 PM – 3:00 AM IST upon transitioning to the Production SQL ownership role to support US business hours. Location: Pune Environment: Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) on AWS RDS, live transactional healthcare SaaS Start: Immediate Joiners Preferred / As soon as available Role Overview • We are looking for a highly reliable senior SQL Server developer to serve as the primary Production SQL Owner for our healthcare SaaS platform running on AWS RDS for SQL Server. • This is a dual-skill, hands-on role: (1) designing, writing, and optimizing complex T-SQL stored procedures that power critical business workflows, and (2) diagnosing live production performance problems — blocking, high CPU, memory pressure, slow queries — in real time on a busy OLTP system while US customers are online. • You will not just monitor or observe — you will develop, fix, tune, and own production SQL end to end, and serve as the trusted escalation point during US business hours. • This is a dedicated contractor role focused on long-term ownership of production SQL operations Key Responsibilities SQL Development • Design, write, debug, and maintain complex T-SQL stored procedures used in critical business workflows • Deliver new database logic and enhancements as part of the product development cycle, working with engineering teams • Refactor and optimize existing stored procedures: query rewrites, execution plan analysis, indexing strategy, statistics, and parameter sniffing fixes • Perform controlled, well-documented production data fixes and investigate data discrepancies Requirements • 8+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server development experience on high-volume OLTP / transactional application databases (not data warehouse / BI) • Expert-level T-SQL: complex stored procedures, functions, transactions, error handling, writing new logic, not just reviewing it • Proven real-time production diagnosis skills: blocking chains, wait statistics (sys.dm_os_wait_stats), deadlock analysis, lock contention • Demonstrated experience root-causing high CPU, high memory utilization, and slow query incidents on live systems using DMVs, Query Store, and execution plans • Strong indexing strategy skills, including diagnosing and mitigating parameter sniffing • Proven experience performing safe, audited production data fixes in a live transactional environment • Strong production support and incident response experience • Experience working in US shift or global support environment Strongly Preferred • AWS RDS for SQL Server experience • Experience with sp_WhoIsActive, Extended Events, or equivalent live-diagnostics tooling • Experience with ADO.NET -based application stacks • Healthcare or transactional SaaS domain experience • Strong hands-on T-SQL development is mandatory. • must be comfortable diagnosing live production incidents in real time. • Candidates whose recent 3+ years are primarily BI pipelines, ETL, data migration, report development, or pure DBA administration
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