Senior Database Engineer
About The Position
Catania Oils, a fourth-generation, family-owned business with 125 years of excellence in the edible oils industry, is looking for a passionate and driven Senior Data Base Engineer to join their team. The company values teamwork, respect, continuous improvement, and a culture that blends tradition with innovation. They operate with core values including treating team members like family, taking responsibility, striving for excellence, being customer-focused, and acting with integrity. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, love solving problems, and know how to bring out the best in people.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience with SQL Server (or equivalent RDBMS)
- Strong expertise in query optimization and execution plan analysis
- Deep understanding of indexing strategies and performance tuning
- Proven experience writing and optimizing complex stored procedures
- Experience supporting reporting workloads and data pipelines
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting Power BI or similar reporting platforms
- Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, or modern data platforms
- Exposure to Python or data science workflows (supporting role)
- Experience working in cross-functional teams (database, reporting, applications)
- Experience with industrial data systems or SCADA platforms (e.g., Ignition, Iconics) in PLC-driven environments
Responsibilities
- Analyze and optimize SQL Server performance across production systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks (queries, blocking, deadlocks, IO, memory usage)
- Proactively monitor and tune database systems
- Implement and maintain performance monitoring solutions
- Design, implement, and maintain effective indexing strategies
- Analyze index usage, fragmentation, and performance impact
- Optimize indexing for both transactional and reporting workloads
- Design, develop, and optimize stored procedures, views, and functions
- Refactor legacy SQL code for performance and maintainability
- Establish and enforce SQL coding standards
- Build and maintain optimized data structures for reporting (views, staging tables, semantic-ready models)
- Partner with the reporting developer to ensure efficient data delivery to Power BI
- Improve query performance impacting dashboards and reports
- Support the evolution toward advanced analytics and data science workflows
- Support schema design and data modeling efforts
- Ensure data consistency, integrity, and security
- Assist with data integration and pipeline design
- Contribute to the design and development of the Microsoft Fabric environment
- Support data movement, transformation, and modeling within Fabric
- Help define best practices for hybrid SQL Server and Fabric architecture
- Act as the primary database partner for reporting and analytics
- Work with application teams to support backend data needs
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to database performance
- Document database structures, optimization efforts, and best practices
- Establish governance for SQL development and performance standards
Benefits
- Be part of a company that values teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement
- Work in a culture that blends tradition with innovation
- Make a real impact in a company that’s committed to sustainability and quality.
- We offer competitive pay and benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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