Lead SQL Developer
Staples India
5 - 10 years
Chennai
Posted: 10/03/2026
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Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design & development: Build robust schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and ETL/ELT pipelines in Microsoft SQL Server (Azure SQL, Managed Instance).
- Performance & reliability: Profile and tune queries, indexes, and execution plans;
- come up with solutions to improve the performance to meet SLAs.
- Data quality & governance: Implement constraints, validation, and auditing; contribute to data standards, naming conventions, and documentation.
- Integration: Build and maintain integrations with upstream/downstream systems and ensure transactional integrity.
- Collaboration: Work with application engineers and analysts to translate requirements into scalable database solutions; participate in code/design reviews.
- Support: Respond to any production issues with urgency.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
- Proficient in SQL programming.
- Expert TSQL skills (set-based programming, window functions, CTEs, error handling, dynamic SQL, MERGE).
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including design, testing, deployment, and documentation activities.
- 8+ years of experience designing and implementing MS SQL Server database objects.
- 8+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including independent analysis, coding, testing, and deployment.
- 8+ years of experience working with SQL Management Studio.
- Experience with ETL/ELT (SSIS or modern alternatives) and scheduling/orchestration.
- 8+ years of combined experience developing solutions with relational database technologies.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Ability to debug complex stored procedures.
- Knowledge of file transmission methods such as SFTP.
- Understanding of batch command /PowerShell scripts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bacherlor Degree B.E/B.Tech
- Ability to understand C# code.
- Exposure to NoSQL stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Redis, Couchbase)
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