0 years

12 - 15 Lacs

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Full Time

Job Description

The Senior Database Application Associate is responsible for analysing, debugging, and optimizing complex SQL queries used in reporting environment. This role involves hands-on troubleshooting, SQL performance tuning, improving query runtime and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure the stability, scalability, and reliability of mission-critical business applications. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and experience managing production systems in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

Database Development & Optimization

  • Develop, debug, and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, triggers, packages, and functions.
  • Perform database performance tuning—index optimization, query rewriting to reduce execution time, and resource utilization improvements.
  • Support schema design, data modelling, and database architecture improvements.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex application and database-related issues.
  • Analyse large and complex SQL queries used in reports by identifying performance issues in joins, filters, CTEs, functions, indexes, and data model design.
  • Ensure optimized SQL returns the same data as the original queries.
  • Maintain accurate technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles.

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with application developers, system engineers, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
  • Work with team members to validate logic and resolve data or performance issues.
  • Support unit testing, QA testing, and user acceptance testing.
  • Share technical recommendations for improving query performance and structure with the team.
  • Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and backup policies.

Required Qualifications

  • Strong expertise in SQL (SQL Server— customize as needed).
  • Expertise in joins, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, aggregations.
  • Strong experience in analysing execution plans and tuning queries.
  • Understanding of indexing, partitioning, statistics, and database performance.
  • Experience troubleshooting and tuning large, complex queries and database operations.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Good communication skills and ability to articulate technical details clearly.

Good to Have

  • Knowledge/Experience with Cognos, Power BI, Tableau, or other reporting tools.
  • Understanding of BI concepts, metadata layers, and reporting models.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹1,247,664.04 - ₹1,508,888.96 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pune, Maharashtra (411048)

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