[Hiring] Database Lead @SupplyLogic

Role Description

The Database Lead is a working lead who both manages and actively contributes to the SQL Developer team. This role is responsible for the team's day-to-day management — including assigning and prioritizing work, overseeing performance, and supporting the growth of each team member — while also personally designing, architecting, and optimizing SQL Server database solutions that support ERP and business applications. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, reliable, and well-monitored software solutions.

Qualifications

• Prior experience leading, mentoring, or providing direction to other developers, ideally in a working/hands-on lead capacity.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience conducting code reviews and establishing or enforcing development standards and best practices.
• 10+ years of professional experience in application and database development with relational databases.
• Strong SQL and T-SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, set-based logic, stored procedures, and views.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server (2014–2022).
• Experience building and maintaining reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT processes using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
• Familiarity with indexing strategy, query execution plans, and performance-tuning tools.
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting/BI tools.
• Skills and interest in working on a data lake solution, such as Snowflake.
• Ability to work in Windows and/or Linux server environments, with comfort performing basic database administration tasks (backups, restores, user permissions).
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and ability to work with spreadsheets for data analysis.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision.
• Python experience is a plus, particularly for scripting data pipelines, automation, or lightweight ETL tasks.
• Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar) to accelerate development, review code, and improve productivity.

Requirements

• Directly manage the SQL Developer team, including assigning and prioritizing work, setting expectations, and overseeing day-to-day workload across the team.
• Own performance management for the team, including regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal-setting, and contributing to performance reviews.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance, mentorship, and support to SQL Developers, helping them grow their skills and resolve technical blockers.
• Lead code reviews and establish coding standards, patterns, and best practices across database development.
• Lead onboarding and training for new developers, including training on Supplylogic's systems, tools, and domain knowledge.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex technical issues and production incidents, guiding troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to technical design decisions and architecture direction in collaboration with the team.
• Report on team progress, capacity, and risks to the VP-Development, and represent the team in cross-functional planning discussions.
• Design scalable SQL Server database architectures supporting ERP and other application data.
• Develop and manage conceptual, logical, and physical data models for all custom-built applications.
• Establish database standards, indexing strategies, naming conventions, and best practices.
• Design, develop, manage, and optimize tables, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, and T-SQL code.
• Manage and monitor SQL Agent jobs.
• Partner with the Infrastructure team on backups, restores, server permissions, and HIPAA compliance.
• Monitor and tune database performance, including execution plans, indexing, blocking, and deadlocks.
• Support ERP modules data replication, including Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Finance, AR, AP, Shipping, and Warehouse Operations.
• Design and support SSIS, SSRS, and other database integrations.
• Build reporting-friendly structures for Power BI and SSRS.
• Ensure data integrity, validation, security, and auditability.
• Partner with application developers, business analysts, and infrastructure teams on all data initiatives.
• Support evaluation and implementation of data lake solutions, such as Snowflake.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.