Senior Enterprise SQL Developer (Banking & Financial Services)

Location: 100% Remote (Anywhere in the USA), or onsite in NYC / Dallas. (No relocation offered; recent local projects are highly preferred).

Strict Candidate Parameters:

• Enterprise Pedigree: Candidates must have recent experience working within very large, globally recognizable enterprise environments. Resumes lacking highly recognizable corporate brands will not be considered.
• Domain Preference: Banking, Capital Markets, or Financial Services experience is highly preferred and these candidates will receive first priority.
• Communication & Language: Candidates must have English as a first language (native speaker) with exceptional, crystal-clear communication skills for heavy stakeholder interaction.
• Tenure & Stability: Candidates must demonstrate excellent career stability, highlighted by good tenure and a proven history of executing long-term projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• SQL Development: Design, develop, and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, and views to support business and reporting needs.
• Data Integration: Partner closely with SSIS developers to support and troubleshoot ETL packages, data flows, and integration processes.
• Reporting Architecture: Collaborate with Power BI developers to ensure data models and underlying SQL structures support efficient, accurate reporting and dashboarding.
• Quality Assurance: Perform data profiling, validation, and quality checks across source and target systems.
• Performance Optimization: Tune queries and indexes for performance across large, complex datasets.
• Business Alignment: Translate business requirements into technical specifications in partnership with stakeholders across the business and technology teams.
• Maintenance: Document data flows, schema changes, and technical processes for ongoing maintainability.
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and resolve data discrepancies, performance issues, and pipeline failures.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 10+ years (15+ years highly preferred) of hands-on experience writing and optimizing complex T-SQL (SQL Server preferred).
• Enterprise Scale: Proven, recent experience working within very large, widely recognizable enterprise organizations.
• Stability: A track record of long-term consulting projects or excellent full-time tenure; ability to work independently in a long-term capacity, managing competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.
• Language & Communication: English as a first language with strong communication skills, possessing the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated experience working alongside SSIS developers on ETL/data integration processes and Power BI developers, with a deep understanding of how data models feed reporting layers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry Domain: Financial services experience (Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Hedge Fund, Private Credit, or related) is a strong plus and will be given priority consideration.
• Data Architecture: Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and best practices.
• Operational Support: Experience supporting front-, middle-, or back-office reporting functions within financial services.