SQL Engineering & Data Platforms Manager

Safe-Guard Products International LLC•Atlanta, GA

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Manager of SQL Engineering to lead a global team of SQL Developers and SQL Analysts across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations. This role is responsible for the design, stability, and evolution of our enterprise data platforms spanning SQL Server, PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora), MongoDB, and Amazon Document DB. The team supports mission critical workflows including eCommerce product catalog lifecycle management, relational to relational and relational to‑ ‑NoSQL data transformations, and SQL/data services for all development verticals. The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership, deep knowledge of database architectures, and extensive experience operating modern data platforms across multiple environments and technologies.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in database engineering, data engineering, or data platform roles.
3+ years leading global, distributed technical teams (onshore/nearshore/offshore).
Deep hands‑on experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL/Aurora, MongoDB, and Document DB.
Strong background in database design, normalization/denormalization, schema modeling, and performance tuning.
Experience building and managing data transformation workflows and relational‑to‑NoSQL data pipelines.
Proven ability to manage database changes and data promotion across multiple environments.
Strong understanding of production operations, including backups, monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with high‑volume transactional or eCommerce systems is strongly preferred.
Knowledge of cloud environments (especially AWS), ETL/ELT tooling, and CI/CD processes for database deployments.
Experience with Gen AI solutions (e.g., AI‑assisted SQL optimization, code generation, documentation automation, or data quality intelligence) is a significant plus.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed SQL engineering organization across onshore, nearshore, and offshore talent pools.
Oversee the design, optimization, and maintenance of SQL Server, Aurora/Postgres, MongoDB, and DocumentDB environments.
Own the workflows involving eCommerce rate loading, data ingestion, and large‑scale data transformations.
Ensure data models, schemas, and architectures support scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
Guide data transformation strategies across databases and ensure consistency, and data quality across platforms.
Drive engineering best practices including query optimization, indexing strategies, schema versioning, monitoring, and observability.
Manage data promotion processes across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
Ensure systems meet operational excellence standards including availability, performance, backup/recovery, and security.
Partner with application development teams to optimize queries, APIs, and data access patterns.
Collaborate with CloudOps/DevOps teams to support automation, CI/CD, and environment provisioning for database changes.
Coordinate with global vendors and offshore partners to ensure delivery quality and consistency.
Lead production incident response for data‑related issues, including root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement actions.
Build a strong culture of ownership, quality, documentation excellence, and continuous learning.
Provide coaching, performance management, and career development for SQL engineers and analysts.