SQL Engineering Manager

People Leadership

Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing SQL Engineering team through coaching, accountability, hiring, and career development.
Create clear expectations through regular feedback, career development, succession planning, and performance management.
Recruit, hire, and retain exceptional engineers while fostering accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Build an environment where engineers are empowered to make decisions while maintaining high technical standards.

Stakeholder Leadership

Build trusted partnerships across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Infrastructure, DBA, and business teams.
Balance roadmap initiatives, operational support, technical debt, and platform improvements against business priorities.
Clearly communicate priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Partner across teams to define practical solutions that improve both technology and business outcomes.

Technical Leadership

Provide architectural leadership across Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission-critical business systems.
Guide database architecture, schema design, T-SQL development, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
Establish practical standards around source control, peer review, testing, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Improve platform reliability through root-cause analysis, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Analytics Engineering and Product teams to establish reliable data contracts and protect downstream systems during database changes.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or managing database or software engineers.
• Demonstrated success with hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, and difficult conversations.
• Deep production experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including database architecture, schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and T-SQL development.
• Experience establishing engineering standards across enterprise SQL environments.
• Experience improving engineering workflows through source control, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Experience leading delivery across roadmap initiatives, operational support, technical debt, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience partnering effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to influence priorities across multiple teams and build trusted working relationships.

What We Look For

The strongest candidates will:
Develop engineers while maintaining high performance standards.
Build trust across technical and business teams.
Make pragmatic technical decisions grounded in business value.
Balance operational excellence with thoughtful modernization.
Communicate directly, collaborate effectively, and lead with humility.
Leave teams, systems, and processes stronger than they found them.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

• A more capable, engaged, and accountable SQL Engineering team with clear expectations and development plans.
• Strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders.
• Improved platform reliability, maintainability, and operational maturity.
• Predictable engineering standards that improve quality, predictability, and deployment confidence.
• A prioritized, business-aligned roadmap for platform modernization that balances technical debt, operational risk, and long-term scalability.

Compliance

Employee has an individual responsibility for knowledge of and compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. Compliance is a condition of employment and an element of job performance.