SQL Developer DBA

Overview

UNIFY Financial Credit Union is one of the nation’s largest credit unions with a reputation for being innovative, financially sound and growth oriented. At UNIFY, our team members work together to strive toward a common goal, “providing superior service to our members.” And we are #hiring.

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SQL Developer/ Database Administrator (Temporary project role)

Do you thrive on building, tuning, and optimizing data environments to power real-world business decisions? Join the Data & Analytics team at UNIFY Financial Credit Union
, where your work directly supports critical insights across the organization.

This is a 6-month temporary/contract role
, reporting daily onsite (M-F 9:00AM – 6:00PM CST) at UNIFY’s Operations Center in Allen, TX. Qualified candidates must be local to the Dallas/ Ft. Worth metroplex and commutable to Allen for interviews and daily to work the role (if offered).

As a key member of the Data & Analytics team, you’ll help ensure that data flows smoothly and securely across the organization. Your work will focus on maintaining, optimizing, and expanding our data pipelines and administering a large SQL Server environment. You will also be consolidating and optimizing two, disparate data environments into one.

• Build, manage, and document SSIS packages for enterprise-level data ingestion, transformation, and load processes
• Troubleshoot and tune workflows for performance and reliability
• Adapt pipelines to meet evolving business needs
• SQL Server Administration
  • Administer multiple VM-based SQL Server instances and Azure SQL Managed Instances
  • Monitor and optimize performance — queries, indexes, stored procedures
  • Implement and enforce security, access control, and encryption best practices
• Analytics Platform Integration
  • Collaborate with analysts and developers to deliver accurate, timely data to Power BI datasets and SSRS reports
  • Contribute to semantic model design and refresh performance
  • Support data validation, governance, and documentation initiatives

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and managing data pipelines on Microsoft SQL Server, including SSIS and SQL Agent
• Strong T-SQL skills and stored procedure optimization experience
• 3+ years administering SQL Server environments
• Experience supporting analytics platforms such as Power BI or Tableau
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• (preferred) Familiarity with Azure SQL (Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database)

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Formal Job Profile:

UNIFY Financial Credit Union is one of the nation’s largest 100 credit unions with a reputation for being financially sound and growth-oriented. We’re expanding rapidly to meet the needs of a growing member base. At UNIFY, our team members work together to strive toward a common goal, “providing superior service to our members.” In doing so, we promote a culture where your ideas matter, your growth matters, and you matter.

We encourage all team members to challenge and encourage themselves and their teammates to work smarter and to be more successful

Summary:

Install, maintain and monitor UNIFY Financial Credit Union’s Structured Query Language (SQL) database environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with system engineers to install, configure & fine-tune SQL Servers on physical and/or virtual machines, to ensure data security & availability and meet the necessity of database setup and refresh in development and live environments.
• Creates and operates redundant data centers.
• Implements and administers Microsoft native high availability /replication technologies.
• Create, administer and fine tune database backup, restore and archive strategies and processes.
• Designs and implements database tuning and optimization such as routine review and refining of indexing strategies; plans and applies index defragging and statistical update policies.
• Performs database diagnostics and query optimizations and monitoring, monitors database capacity.
• Develops automated database maintenance utilities.
• Ensures security…