Lead sql server database administrator

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We Are Modernizing Medicine (WAMM)! We're a team of bright, passionate, and positive problem-solvers on a mission to place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform. Our vision is a world where the software we build increases medical practice success and improves patient outcomes. Founded in 2010 by Daniel Cane and Dr. Michael Sherling, we have grown to over 3400 combined direct and contingent team members serving eleven specialties, and we are just getting started! ModMed's global headquarters is based in Boca Raton, FL, with a growing office in Hyderabad, India, and a robust remote workforce across the US, Chile, and Germany.

ModMed is hiring a driven Lead Database Administrator responsible for architecting, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing the company's SQL Server database systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in application performance tuning, database optimization, and troubleshooting, as well as experience guiding best practices across development and infrastructure teams. As the lead DBA, you will provide both technical leadership and strategic direction for our database environments, ensuring stability, scalability, and high performance across mission-critical applications. This role is based at our HQ in Boca Raton, FL.

Your Role:

• Lead the design, administration, maintenance, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server databases.
• Collaborate closely with application developers and architects to optimize queries, stored procedures, and overall application/database performance.
• Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot performance issues across the full database and application stack.
• Design and implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions and oversee backup and recovery strategies, security compliance, and database capacity planning.
• Define and enforce database standards, processes, and best practices across our engineering organization.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other DBAs and engineering teams.
• Stay current with SQL Server advancements, performance tuning tools, and emerging database technologies.

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields.
• 10+ years experience in developing and maintaining database applications on any platform.
• 8+ years experience in an operations environment, supporting live production Microsoft SQL Server databases and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• 2+ years of experience using cloud-native SQL database solutions, such as Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, or similar.
• Strong database design and development skills.
• Proven expertise in performance tuning and optimization using native monitoring tools, DMVs, execution plans, and third-party utilities.
• Strong T-SQL development skills with experience optimizing queries, indexing strategies, and schema design.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server 2016 and later, including Always On Availability Groups, Replication, and Partitioning.
• Proven experience in supporting enterprise-level database applications, including proficiency with backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Solid understanding of Windows Server, networking, and storage concepts as they relate to SQL Server performance.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Unshakable commitment to quality
• Microsoft Certifications in Database Administration or Data Management are a plus.

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ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it's important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

India

• Meals & Snacks: Enjoy complimentary office lunches & dinners on select days and healthy snacks delivered to your desk,
• Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health, accidental, and life insurance plans, including coverage for family members, all at no cost to employees,
• Allowances: Annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and productivity,
• Earned, casual, and sick leaves to maintain a healthy work-life balance,
• Bereavement leave for difficult times and extended medical leave options,
• Paid parental leaves, including maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, and abortion leave,
• Celebration leave to make your special day even more memorable, and company-paid holidays to recharge and unwind.

United States

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

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