Database Engineering Senior

eClinical Solutions is transforming clinical development with elluminate®, our Clinical Data Cloud, helping life sciences organizations unify, analyze, and unlock the value of their data faster than ever before. By combining a modern cloud platform with expert data services, we empower smarter decisions across the clinical trial lifecycle—accelerating innovation that ultimately improves patient outcomes.

Our engineering teams build enterprise-grade, revenue-generating products at the intersection of cloud, data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies. If you’re excited about building sophisticated software that makes a real-world impact in healthcare, this is the place to do it.

As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be a key member of the elluminate product development team. You will ensure that the data layer of our next-generation cloud platform is optimized for performance, scalability, and security. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining our SQL Server databases, supporting data integrations, and working closely with software engineers to develop and maintain robust and efficient data architectures.

Manage, maintain, and optimize SQL Server databases, ensuring performance, availability, and security

Manage, maintain, and optimize Databricks databases, ensuring performance, availability, and security

Manage, maintain, and optimize document databases, ensuring performance, availability, and security

Collaborate with the Software Engineering team to design and implement database structures and queries that meet the needs of our applications

Review and analyze query code to identify and resolve performance issues, ensuring efficient database operations

Monitor and tune database systems for optimal performance and reliability

Conduct database migrations, upgrades, backups, and recovery processes as needed

Assist the development team in troubleshooting and optimizing queries, stored procedures, and performance bottlenecks

Contribute to database design and data modeling to support application features and data integrity

Ensure database systems comply with security standards, particularly in highly regulated environments like life sciences

Provide technical support for existing elluminate product releases, diagnosing and resolving database-related issues

Assist in developing and documenting database management best practices

Support software developers in integrating C# and Entity Framework solutions with SQL Server databases (nice to have)

Implement backup and recovery strategies to protect data and ensure business continuity

Conduct regular database health checks, performance tuning, and maintenance tasks to optimize system performance

Stay updated with the latest database technologies and trends, recommending improvements to enhance database performance and security

Document database processes, procedures, and architecture to ensure knowledge transfer and continuity

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred

5+ years of experience in SQL Server database administration, including performance tuning, backups, restores, and replication preferred

Experience with cloud databases and data architecture in distributed/HA environments is a plus

Excellent knowledge of English

Strong knowledge of database management principles, relational data models, and T‑SQL for creating complex queries and stored procedures

Experience with database design, implementation, and optimization

Knowledge of C# and Entity Framework is a nice-to-have, providing additional value for collaboration with development teams

Familiarity with database security best practices, particularly for sensitive data in clinical trials and life sciences

Proficient in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries and stored procedures

Ability to identify performance issues and implement effective solutions for SQL Server, Databricks, and document database performance tuning

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