Data Platform & Database Developer

Department: Information Technology
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Director of IT

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented
Data Platform & Database Developer / Administrator to join a growing IT team. This hands-on technical role is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and optimizing the data infrastructure that supports business applications, reporting, analytics, and emerging AI technologies.

The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in SQL, relational database design, data integration, and database administration, along with a practical approach to solving complex data challenges.

This individual will collaborate with IT leadership, application developers, and cross-functional business teams to ensure critical business data is accurate, secure, accessible, and efficiently integrated across systems.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically driven professional who enjoys taking ownership of data platforms, improving existing infrastructure, and developing scalable solutions that support business growth.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize production databases and shared data environments.

Manage database architecture, schemas, indexing, query performance, and overall database reliability.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database performance issues to maintain system efficiency.

Establish and maintain database security, access controls, and data integrity standards.

Define database backup and recovery requirements and collaborate with infrastructure teams to validate restoration procedures.

Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for database structures, configurations, and recovery processes.

Identify opportunities to modernize legacy databases and improve long-term maintainability.

Design, build, and maintain data integrations between enterprise applications, ERP systems, warehouse management systems, ecommerce platforms, and third-party services.

Develop and support APIs, ETL/ELT processes, scheduled data jobs, and automated imports and exports.

Implement data validation, logging, reconciliation, monitoring, and error-handling procedures.

Map data sources, system dependencies, and information flows to ensure reliable data movement across platforms.

Develop reusable data services, database views, and pipelines to support business applications and reporting tools.

Reduce manual data transfers, duplicate data storage, and inefficient integrations.

Troubleshoot integration issues and implement solutions to improve data accuracy and system reliability.

Establish and maintain technical controls that improve data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and availability.

Identify and resolve duplicate, conflicting, or incomplete data records.

Collaborate with business stakeholders to establish data definitions, ownership responsibilities, and source-of-truth standards.

Implement data validation, traceability, and access controls to support effective data governance.

Ensure data structures and processes align with organizational security and operational requirements.

Develop documentation and standardized processes to improve data transparency and reduce reliance on undocumented workflows.

Evaluate and enhance existing data models, databases, and integration processes.

Support modernization initiatives involving legacy data systems and business-critical information.

Develop scalable data structures to support product information, customer records, operational data, and other enterprise datasets.

Improve the accessibility and usability of data for internal applications, reporting, analytics, and AI-driven…