SQL DBA Developer

About Employee Navigator

Employee Navigator is a rapidly growing and highly profitable $100M ARR SaaS insurance & HR technology company that works with the nations leading insurance carriers payroll companies & insurance brokers. Our products are designed to make it easier for our customers to manage the complexity of employee benefits & HR including benefits administration employee onboarding and much more. Employee Navigator is the leading broker-centric benefits administration and HR platform in the US serving over 175000 companies.

Weve been recognized as one of The Washington Posts Top Workplaces for eight consecutive years and in 2025 we proudly earned our first Top Workplace award in Salt Lake City in our very first year of eligibility. Join us to help carry on our award-winning culture and be part of building something new and meaningful here!

About the Role

Employee Navigators success is powered by a highly available scalable and performant SQL Server infrastructure that grows every year to meet increasing demand. Our databases run on a mix of Azure VMs Managed Instances and Azure SQL DBs designed to handle mission-critical workloads in a multi-shard architecture.

We are seeking a Mid to Senior Level SQL Server DBA and Developer to join our core Database Engineering team. You will handle day-to-day administration tuning and optimization of our SQL Server environments while contributing to ongoing modernization efforts including SQL Server version upgrades automation performance scaling and best practice enforcement.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to own their work grow technically collaborate across teams and play a key role in a high-performance data-driven environment.

Location : Onsite at our Bethesda MD headquarters.

Heres What Youll Do Day-to-day

• Manage and maintain SQL Server databases () across multiple shards and environments (Development QA Staging Production).
• Configure monitor and support Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) and Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Monitor performance and identify bottlenecks using tools like Idera Extended Events WorkloadTools Query Store and wait statistics.
• Hands-on experience with performance tuning indexing strategies and execution plan analysis.
• Collaborate with developers to review SQL code enforce best practices and eliminate issues like parameter sniffing and implicit conversions.
• Automate recurring tasks and deployments using t-sql PowerShell dbatools and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Participate in the SQL Server 2022 upgrade initiative by validating workloads and optimizing compatibility levels.
• Support and fulfill ad-hoc data requests and data fixes while ensuring accuracy compliance performance and data security.
• Maintain documentation for environments jobs issues and recovery procedures.
• Contribute to regular team discussions share lessons learned and help evolve database coding and review standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Security Infrastructure and Development teams to ensure a secure scalable and reliable environment.

Heres What Youll Need

Bonus Points

The expected hiring range for this position is $80000-$180000 p / year. This range represents the companys good-faith estimate of the salary at the time of posting. The actual pay may vary based on factors such as the candidates experience skills qualifications and location as well as internal equity.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees professional growth and personal well-being. Our benefits include paid time off Volunteer Time Off 401(k) with company match medical dental and vision insurance disability coverage educational reimbursements and paid parental leave. To learn more about our benefits visit our careers page.

Employee Navigator does not discriminate based on race religion sex sexual orientation age disability or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Skills

Databases,SQL Server Management Studio,SQL,.NET,Microsoft SQL Server,ssrs,TFS,Database Design,Performance Tuning,SSIS,T Sql,Data Warehouse

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 6 - 10