
Senior SQL Server, Data/AIA Engineer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mississauga • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
ETLSQLSSIS
About the role
- Own several production SQL Server instances and ~10 databases from a data perspective (schemas, code, performance, reliability, security at the DB level, backups/restore strategies)
- Monitor and tune performance: Index and statistics strategy, query plans, blocking/deadlocks, resource usage
- Maintain and troubleshoot: Replication, SQL Agent jobs, and other DB-level automation
- Design and implement: Tables, views, indexes, constraints, and other DB objects for new features and integrations
- Own and improve existing ETL workflows (SSIS packages and/or custom ETL processes)
- Stabilize ETL: Add proper logging, monitoring/alerting, and restart/recovery patterns
- Document and rationalize data flows: Between SQL databases, ETL, upstream applications, and reporting/analytics
- Refactor and optimize stored procedures, functions, and queries to reduce runtime, resource usage, and complexity
- Prepare and structure enterprise data for AI use cases (RAG, copilots, internal assistants, automation)
Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on experience as a SQL Server Developer / Database Engineer / Data Engineer with SQL Server as your main platform
- Strong T-SQL skills: Complex stored procedures, functions, and views
- Solid query tuning using execution plans, index strategies, and statistics
- Proven ETL / data integration experience: Designing, owning, and troubleshooting production ETL jobs (SSIS or similar tools, or custom script-based ETL)
- Solid grasp of: Relational data modelling, normalization vs denormalization, and the impact of design on performance and maintainability
- Comfortable taking over legacy SQL and ETL: Reading messy code, simplifying it, and documenting what’s actually happening
- Used to owning outcomes: You can prioritize, communicate trade-offs, and defend good technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Clear written and verbal communication
Benefits
- Overtime hours with advanced notice may be required to meet project deadlines
- Hybrid opportunities available – incumbent must commute to work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQL ServerT-SQLETLSSISdata integrationquery tuningrelational data modelingstored proceduresfunctionsviews
Soft skills
communicationprioritizationtechnical decision-makingdocumentationtroubleshootingperformance optimizationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaboration