Creative Recruitment
Senior SQL Server Developer
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Senior SQL Server Developer
Salary - £75,000
Location: Fully remote - going into the Oxford office when required
The Role
We are seeking an exceptional Senior SQL Server Developer with deep expertise in building high-performance, scalable, and mission-critical database solutions. This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes SQL Server, understands data at a granular level, and can solve complex database challenges with elegance and precision whilst ensuring high-level performance and best practices.
While SQL Server mastery is the core requirement, experience with .NET (C#, ASP.NET, EF, or related frameworks) is a strong advantage. You will have the opportunity to work on large-scale, performance-heavy systems in a collaborative engineering culture where technical excellence is valued.
As an experienced developer, you will have worked on a variety of highly available applications and have experience with high volume databases. You will be confident collaborating with engineering teams around the world to design and launch ground-breaking features.
You will have the experience and knowledge to make sound technology decisions and participate in architecture discussions, advocating best practices across the teams you work with. You will act as an example and data leader for less data experienced team members to learn from and have an ability to communicate at all levels with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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You will be a highly analytical and detail-oriented individual comfortable with tools such as Elastic Search, Rollbar, Jira, etc. as well as having a propensity for learning and enhancing your skillset, with a mindset tuned to understand root-causes. As a database expert, you will have extensive experience in, and thrive in, designing, developing, and optimising complex T-SQL stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers. You will own the database performance, including indexing strategies, query tuning, execution plan analysis, statistics, partitioning, etc. and so will take pride in producing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
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You will collaborate with software developers, architects, and DevOps to deliver robust, efficient backend systems. You will be expected to have deep experience of conducting root-cause analysis on performance bottlenecks and database-related production issues, ensuring data integrity, security, compliance, and efficient resource utilization. You will, as a part of the development team, participate in schema design, capacity planning, and database lifecycle management.
Your experience will mean that less experienced developers will look to you for guidance as a subject-matter expert for SQL Server.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of hands-on SQL Server experience (SQL Server 2016 or later).
- Strong and demonstrable experience writing and optimising advanced queries, stored procedures, functions, tables, etc.
- Excellent experience in tuning and optimising performance to ensure all database code paths are optimal and performant.
- Experience in using execution plans to understand and improve code execution.
- Thorough comprehension of indexing strategies, concurrency, and locking to ensure optimal performance.
- Broad understanding and experience with SSIS.
- Understanding of service brokers and message queues (SSSB, Kafka, etc).
- Knowledge of database security and roles, as well as security and database best practices.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD tools (TeamCity).
- Solid experience working with source control platforms and tools such as GIT.
- Experience with Cloudflare, AWS, Terraform (nice to have).
- Writing database-specific unit tests experience with .NET (C#, ASP.NET, EF, or related frameworks) (nice to have).
- Experience with logging tools (Elasticsearch, Rollbar, Sentry).
- Great communication skills as a core member of an internationally-based team.
- Passion for data and databases with a desire to remain up to date with the latest skills.
- Experience working on high-traffic 24/7, performant data-backed systems.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Sprints, Scrum, Stand-Ups).
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