Senior SQL Server Developer
Posted 4 days 11 hours ago by McNally Recruitment Ltd
Our client is seeking a 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.
The client is based in Oxford, UK, and you will be required to work in the office 1 day per month; otherwise, you will be working remotely.
Mandatory Skills- 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)