SQL Server Database Senior Developer, Vice President
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group4 months ago
Base Salary
$147k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead SQL Server database performance tuning and optimization.
- Resolve query bottlenecks, slow queries, blocking, deadlocks, and production performance issues.
- Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, batch-processing jobs, execution plans, and indexing strategies.
- Monitor and troubleshoot I/O, memory, and CPU bottlenecks using SQL Server tools such as SQL Profiler.
- Collaborate with application development teams, business partners, infrastructure groups, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Quality Engineering.
- Gather, analyze, and document data and performance requirements.
- Coordinate testing and implementation of database changes according to bank policies and standards.
- Organize technical workstreams and communicate status, risks, and dependencies using JIRA and Confluence.
- Provide guidance to junior developers or database team members.
- Participate in production support and critical issue resolution.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on SQL Server database development and performance-tuning experience.
- Deep expertise in query optimization, execution plan analysis, index design and tuning, and stored procedure optimization.
- Strong knowledge of SQL Server internals, including locking, blocking, deadlocks, TempDB usage, and indexing strategies.
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues in production environments and working with large datasets and high-throughput batch-processing systems.
- Familiarity with at least one programming language, such as C#, .NET, Java, or Python, for integration purposes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and dependable.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
- Preferred: experience supporting loan systems, corporate and investment banking or capital markets platforms, Agile development environments, enterprise architecture, production support, financial-services security controls, and mentoring junior team members.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule requiring four days per week at an MUFG office or client site and one remote day.
- Base pay range of $147k-$205k, plus potential discretionary performance-based bonuses or incentive compensation.
- Health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs.
- Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.
About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is a publicly traded Japanese banking group headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, offering commercial and investment banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing to consumers, corporations, and institutions. It generates revenue from lending interest, transaction fees, and investment services. Formed in 2005 through the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and UFJ Holdings, MUFG operates globally across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific markets.