Raymond James · 17 hours ago
Senior SQL Server DBA
Southfield, MI
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expRaymond James is a financial services firm seeking a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator. In this role, you will manage complex database systems, ensuring their availability, security, and performance while providing guidance to team members.
BankingFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyInsuranceWealth Management
No H1B
Responsibilities
Ensures availability, security, and integrity of the SQL Server environment
Resolves database performance, capacity, replication, and other distributed data issues
Installs and configures database management software (DBMS) and applicable service packs and/or patches
Develop and implement database maintenance plans, including performing integrity checks, updating statistics, and monitoring security and hardware resource utilization
Establishes regular backups of databases and transaction logs
Manages logins and user accounts, including assigning database object permissions and ancillary privileges
Schedules and manages jobs for data transfers and sundry procedures and monitors performance and impact on operations
Participates in data modeling and database logical and physical design
Participates in application development processes and code reviews of database objects
Analyzes long-term database performance trends to optimize database and application performance
Configures database server to work with middleware, web servers, and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools
Configures, supports and optimizes replication
Performs acceptance testing on computer systems, applications, and hardware
Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualification
Required
More than five (5) years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2017/2019/2022, including Availability groups, Database Mirroring, Transactional replication, and Change Data Capture. Systems preferred
Experience supporting multiple production, QA, and development servers in large environments (400 plus instances). Experience with large databases (> 1 TB)
Good transactional SQL skills – writing and tuning complicated stored procedures and views utilizing inner and outer joins, etc
Experience diagnosing performance issues both at a database and code level, resulting in driving technical solutions to the development team
Experience troubleshooting production issues in a timely, methodical manner that leads to accurate Root Cause Analysis
Capacity planning for all aspects of a database system (storage, computing, memory, etc.)
Experience recovering databases after hardware or other catastrophic failures
General knowledge of Windows Server and hardware
Experience with supporting and developing SSIS packages
Experience with Windows Power Shell
Experience with one or more performance tuning tools – SQL Profiler, SolarWinds
Experience with Query Store and Extended Events
Ability to write efficient stored procedure code, strong understanding of triggers, indexing strategies, and effective database maintenance for optimal performance
Ability to think through problems critically, ask good questions and provide solutions
Able to use and/or create documented standards and apply those standards
Able to multi-task and parallelize work efforts
Willing to learn new technologies and drive to be a change advocate
Good customer service, interpersonal, and communication skills
Willingness to carry on-call support through rotation
Bachelor's: Business Administration, Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science, High School (HS) (Required)
General Experience - 3 to 6 years
Preferred
Strong performance tuning skills help the team be more proactive in solutions and tools
Experience in financial services or other regulated industries is preferred
Strong troubleshooting skills to help the team react faster and more efficiently to issues, identify root causes, and to prevent these issues from recurring
Strong and more profound database administration skills in database management, best practices, high-availability solutions, and strong background working with development teams
Strong focus on automation and tools development
Experience supporting Neo4J a plus
Company
Raymond James
Raymond James provides a range of investment banking services focused on the telecommunications and communications sectors.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.5B2025-09-09Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
1983-07-01IPO
Leadership Team
Paul Shoukry
Chief Executive Officer
James Sickling
COO - Fixed Income
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