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Zensar

Global IT services for digital transformation

SQL DB Engineer

Database AdministrationUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeIndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of hands-on SQL Server database engineering or development experience in enterprise environments.
  • Advanced skills in T-SQL, stored procedures, functions, indexing, data modeling, and query optimization.
  • Deep knowledge of SQL Server execution plans, Query Store, cardinality estimation, statistics, locking and blocking, waits, parallelism, memory grants, and tempdb.
  • Experience tuning high-volume transactional and batch-processing workloads with measurable before-and-after validation.
  • Experience with SQL Server upgrades, configuration assessment, performance testing, and production troubleshooting.
  • Working knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, SQL Agent, replication, backup and restore, maintenance, and operational monitoring.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, collaboration, and incident-management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, review, and optimize complex T-SQL, stored procedures, functions, views, tables, indexes, and data-access patterns.
  • Analyze execution plans, Query Store data, waits, blocking, memory grants, parallelism, CPU, input/output, tempdb usage, and transaction-log behavior to isolate and resolve performance issues.
  • Refactor row-by-row and scalar-function-heavy processing into efficient set-based designs, including appropriate use of inline table-valued functions, temporary staging, indexing, and early filtering.
  • Tune long-running batch, snapshot, compliance, reporting, and data-export workloads while preserving data integrity and output equivalence.
  • Design and validate database structures, keys, identity strategies, data models, and replication patterns for large, tightly coupled transactional workloads.
  • Support SQL Server upgrades and configuration changes through representative performance testing, execution-plan comparison, regression validation, and documented rollback or fix-forward plans.
  • Engineer and support high availability, disaster recovery, transactional replication, monitoring, maintenance, archival, purge, and capacity-management practices.
  • Troubleshoot production incidents with application, infrastructure, site reliability engineering, quality assurance, and vendor teams; preserve evidence and translate findings into durable corrective actions.
  • Contribute to cloud and platform modernization involving Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL, data pipelines, and workload offload from monolithic SQL platforms.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, standards, documentation, mentoring, and knowledge transfer.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database, or SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.
  • Experience with Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric pipelines, Snowflake, or reporting and data-platform modernization.
  • PowerShell or other automation for database deployment, validation, monitoring, or maintenance.
  • Experience with financial-services transaction, compliance, reporting, or data-feed workloads.

About the Company

Zensar

Global IT services for digital transformation

Digital solutions and IT services company that partners with global organizations to drive digital transformation. Its offerings include intelligent automation, analytics, hyperconverged infrastructure, and digital application development and maintenance, delivered through long-term contracts, project-based engagements, and managed services. Indigo Slate handles virtual event creation. Zensar’s Living AI integrates artificial intelligence into business processes to boost outcomes. Unlike many competitors, it emphasizes reducing capital expenditure (Capex) and operating expenditure (Opex), simplifying vendor management, and improving efficiency through automation. The overall goal is to help clients adapt to the digital landscape, optimize technology infrastructure, and achieve higher operational efficiency.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Pune, India
Founded
1991

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