Database Engineer

Join the Leader in Healthcare Communication Technology

At Rauland, we're proud to be the leading provider of Nurse Call Systems in the United States , delivering technology that helps care teams communicate quickly and provide timely, life-saving care across both acute and post-acute settings. Our solutions support clinicians and patients when it matters most, and data is at the heart of everything we build.

We're expanding our software organization and seeking a Database Engineer to join our team who is passionate about building reliable, high-performance systems that power mission-critical healthcare applications and play a critical role in the design, optimization, and support of our data platforms. This position blends hands-on SQL development with database engineering responsibilities, offering the opportunity to build and enhance database solutions that power business-critical applications. You will partner closely with Product Owners, software engineers, and cross-functional teams to design scalable data solutions, optimize performance, modernize existing architectures, and ensure the reliability of production systems. The ideal candidate enjoys both developing robust T-SQL solutions and solving complex database infrastructure, performance, and operational challenges.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Teams, and stakeholders to understand business requirements and design effective, scalable database solutions that support application and reporting needs.
• Identify and drive opportunities to modernize and optimize data platforms through improvements to ETL processes, database architecture, data models, and data warehouse design.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain high-quality T-SQL code, including stored procedures, views, functions, and schema changes that align with evolving application requirements.
• Mentor and support software engineers in database development best practices, including stored procedure design and SQL performance optimization.
• Analyze and improve database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and optimization of stored procedures.
• Design, build, and support ETL processes, including incremental data loads, logging frameworks, error handling, and data quality validation.
• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot SQL Server Agent jobs and scheduled processes to ensure reliable and efficient data operations.
• Partner with Production, Field Service, and Technical Support teams to diagnose and resolve database-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, blocking, deadlocks, timeouts, and job failures.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks, data flow diagrams, operational procedures, and release readiness checklists to support knowledge sharing and system reliability.
• Participate in Agile development activities, production support rotations, business continuity testing, and cross-functional collaboration with teams across the U.S. and global locations while adapting to changing priorities and business needs.

Do You Have?...

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a relevant Technical / Business field.
• 2+ years of Microsoft SQL Server development (T-SQL, schema changes, basic data modeling)
• Experience tuning queries using execution plans and indexing fundamentals
• Exposure to SSIS tool or ETL/ELT processes (development, support, migration from one tool to another; and troubleshooting)
• Willingness to learn and apply scripting/automation (e.g., PowerShell with SQL Agent or other database-related automation)
• Comfortable supporting production issues in a team environment (triage, communication, documentation)
• Works well in Scrum/Agile: can break work into stories/tasks and communicate status clearly
• Communicates tradeoffs and asks good questions (scalability, performance, reliability, deployment risk, maintainability)
• Collaborates with engineers through code reviews, and sharing SQL best practices
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-marking, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs

Got This? Even Better...

• Exposure to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (monitoring, basic troubleshooting, participation in failover tests)
• Familiarity with data warehouse concepts (facts/dimensions, incremental loads, SCD awareness)
• Familiarity with SSIS, python, dbt or similar ETL/ELT processes
• Familiarity with source control for database scripts (Git/Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity with ticketing/work tracking tools (Azure DevOps/ADO, Jira, or similar)
• Familiarity with or willingness to learn Power BI or similar reporting/BI tools (e.g., SSRS, Tableau)

Why Us?

Rauland, a division of AMETEK, is a business unit in the Measurement, Communications and Technologies division of AMETEK. We are a leader in integrated communications technology, designing and manufacturing Nurse Call Systems for the medical industry and school critical communication systems for the education K-12 market.


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Compensation

Employee Type: Salaried


Currency: USD


Salary Minimum: 120,000


Salary Maximum: 140,000


Incentive: No


Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.

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AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.

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