Senior Database Developer

Hybrid and Remote Work Eligibility

We are looking for candidates based in or near the Cleveland, Ohio area. This role follows a hybrid schedule with two days per week in our Warrensville Heights office, and local candidates are strongly preferred.

Candidates located elsewhere in Ohio are also welcome to apply and would work fully remote.

For the right candidate outside of Ohio, we are able to consider fully remote applicants from the following registered states:
Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Database Developer. In this senior, hands‑on role, you will design, implement, optimize, and support the databases that underpin our lottery platforms and client solutions. You will help ensure data integrity, performance, security, and scalability across complex, high‑availability systems that support mission‑critical lottery operations.

As the Senior Database Developer, you will serve as the technical authority for client databases, partnering with IT staff, application developers, architects, and implementation teams to design efficient schemas, optimize queries, and resolve performance issues. You will guide database strategy from early solution design through production support, ensuring structures align with application requirements, reporting needs, and regulatory expectations for security and data privacy.

You will contribute to project scoping and technical planning by providing database‑level estimates and recommendations, translating business and application requirements into durable, well‑documented data models. You will also mentor other developers on database best practices, assist with query optimization and schema design, and drive continuous improvement in our data practices.

• Provide primary production support for database incidents, including after‑hours deployments, maintenance windows, and emergency recovery.
• Lead performance tuning across query optimization, indexing strategies, and execution plan analysis. Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks before they become incidents.
• Partner with architects, developers, and IT to align database design with application architecture, performance goals, and platform roadmap. Set database standards and best practices for the team.
• Lead all client‑facing database communications: incident updates, root‑cause summaries, mitigation steps, and go‑live readiness discussions. Serve as the database point‑of‑contact in client meetings and design reviews.
• Own database architecture, schema design, and data strategy for lottery platforms, client systems, and internal applications. Design and evolve stable, scalable, secure data models for high‑volume transactional and reporting workloads.
• Translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear, plain‑language explanations for non‑technical stakeholders. Present recommendations on performance, availability, security, cost, and maintainability in a way that supports confident decision‑making.

• Ensure data security, privacy, and compliance through access controls, permissions, auditing, and operational monitoring in regulated client environments.
• Refine and automate recurring administrative processes to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Evaluate and recommend database technologies, tools, and process improvements that advance performance, scalability, or maintainability.
• Contribute to solution scoping, estimation, and approach selection, translating client requirements into durable technical plans.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, support playbooks, and standardized processes that reduce reliance on tribal knowledge.
• Mentor developers on SQL, schema design, and performance practices. Raise the technical floor of the team over time.
• Support testing and release readiness by contributing to test plans, QA validation, and issue documentation.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future. U.S. citizens and permanent residents (green card holders) are…