Lead Technical DBA - Azure

Who We Are

As the largest private-sector power producer in the world and the nation's largest producer of clean and reliable energy, Constellation is focused on our purpose: lighting the way to a brilliant tomorrow for all. We have been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade, and we are cultivating a workplace where our employees can grow, thrive, and contribute.

Now integrated with Calpine, our portfolio includes 55 gigawatts of capacity from nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, hydro, wind and solar facilities, with the generating capacity to power the equivalent of 27 million homes.

Our culture and employee experience make it clear:
We are powered by passion and purpose. Together, we re creating healthier communities and a cleaner planet, and our people are the driving force behind our success. At Constellation, you can build a fulfilling career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact. By doing our best work and meeting new challenges, we can accomplish great things. Join us in meeting the country s energy needs today and tomorrow.

Constellation offers an extensive selection of benefits and rewards to help our employees thrive professionally and personally. We provide competitive compensation and a wide-range of benefits that support both employees and their families, helping them prepare for the future. In addition to highly competitive salaries, eligible employees are offered a bonus program, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program; comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, including robust wellbeing programs;

disability and life insurance benefits; paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick days; and much more.

Expected salary range of $144,000 to $160,000, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401(k).

Provide deep technical expertise to support delivery and maintenance of IT solutions. Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology standards, market availability of products, and risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT needs. Significant customer engagement, work planning, project management services provided to IT customers. Expected to work under minimal supervision.

• Undertakes complex database projects requiring specialized technical knowledge. Makes well thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous database issues.
• Provide technical database expertise and/or solution delivery support for maintaining performance and reliability of database solutions.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners to determine requirements in support of service levels and project commitments.
• Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities and assists in development of analysis for business and/or IT clients.
• Participate in relevant IT Architecture Domain Groups to appropriately review and plan the introduction of new database technologies. Ensure appropriate implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments. Establishes and communicates common technical goals/direction for team.
• Provide performance evaluations, career development feedback, and recognition. Acts as a source of direction, training and guidance for less experienced staff.
• Investigate and resolve database incidents involving performance issues, failed jobs, data replication/CDC processes, user access, and application connectivity.
• Execute database maintenance, refreshes, deployments, partition management, statistics maintenance, and production support activities following change management processes
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and data teams to improve database reliability, monitoring, automation, and operational maturity across enterprise platforms

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related discipline and typically 8+ years hands-on experience in one or more database technologies (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Broad technical expertise with deep technical knowledge in one or more database technologies (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Excellent communications skills
  -Able to effectively communicate highly technical information in nontechnical terminology (written and verbal)
• Understanding of change management principles associated with new technology implementations.
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Understands and applies project management principles when leading and directing work

• Experience supporting and administering SQL Server 2022/2025, Azure SQL Managed Instances, and hybrid database environments with a focus on availability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks and modern data platform technologies supporting data ingestion, analytics, and enterprise data…