Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
Overview Position: Engineer III - Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer (8 to 12 years of experience) Primary Purpose of the position: The Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer is responsible for designing, developing, optimiz…
Skills: Azure SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Database Development, Performance Tuning, Schema Design
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote OK
$77k–$104k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial reporting, General ledger management, Nonprofit accounting, Federal grant processing, Month-end close
Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Tax compliance, Tax consulting, Federal tax, Multi-state tax, Leadership
Bedford, New Hampshire, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Tax compliance, Tax consulting, Federal tax, Multi-state tax, Leadership
Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Tax compliance, Tax consulting, Federal tax, Multi-state tax, Tax research
South Portland, Maine, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Tax compliance, Tax consulting, Federal tax, Multi-state tax, Leadership
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid
$88k–$118k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
Clayton, Missouri, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
Denver, Colorado, United States · Hybrid
$88k–$118k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Cloud Computing
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Cloud Computing
United States · Remote OK
$88k–$118k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP Implementation, Functional Design, Business Requirements Gathering, Supply Chain Management
Missoula, Montana, United States · Remote OK
$73k–$98k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial Reporting, General Ledger Management, Nonprofit Accounting, Federal Grant Processing, Month-end Close
Denver, Colorado, United States · Remote OK
$83k–$113k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial Reporting, General Ledger Management, Nonprofit Accounting, Federal Grant Processing, Month-end Close
Clayton, Missouri, United States · Remote OK
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial Reporting, General Ledger Management, Nonprofit Accounting, Federal Grant Processing, Month-end Close
Southfield, Michigan, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
Aurora, Illinois, United States · Remote OK
$77k–$104k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial Reporting, General Ledger Management, Nonprofit Accounting, Federal Grant Processing, Month-end Close
Southfield, Michigan, United States · Remote OK
$74k–$100k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Financial Reporting, General Ledger Management, Nonprofit Accounting, Federal Grant Processing, Month-end Close
Irvine, California, United States · Hybrid
$88k–$118k/yr
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States · Hybrid
Overview At Wipfli, people count. At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. We believe in flexibility. We focus on relation…
Skills: Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Network Troubleshooting
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The Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer designs, optimizes, and maintains cloud database platforms to ensure scalability, reliability, and security for business-critical applications. This role involves close collaboration with development and architecture teams to manage schema design, performance tuning, and disaster recovery planning.
Candidates must have at least 8 years of experience in database development or administration with hands-on expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments. Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning, data modeling, and application development frameworks like .NET and Entity Framework Core is required.
Position: Engineer III - Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer (8 to 12 years of experience) Primary Purpose of the position: The Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer is responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, securing, monitoring, and maintaining cloud database platforms that support business-critical applications. This role has a strong database development focus and partners closely with application development, product, architecture, and operations teams to ensure database solutions are scalable, reliable, cost-effective, secure, and aligned with product delivery needs. The role provides hands-on support for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL performance tuning, schema design, indexing strategy, data modeling, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, production troubleshooting, database standards, and optimization opportunities that may require changes in application code and data access patterns.
Skills, Competencies, Experience and Responsibilities: • Develop, monitor, secure, administer, and support Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, Azure SQL Managed Instance where applicable, and related cloud database services, ensuring availability, performance, reliability, and operational readiness. • Develop a strong understanding of supported business products, workflows, SLAs, data-critical domains, operational dependencies, and current database architecture to guide informed database decisions. • Optimize database and application performance through query tuning, indexing strategy, execution plan review, statistics maintenance, workload analysis, storage management, application data access pattern review, and proactive identification of performance and cloud cost improvement opportunities. • Partner with application development and product teams to review schema design, data modeling, entity ownership, data access patterns, application code impacts, Entity Framework Core usage, pagination strategy, GUID versus sequential ID usage, database changes, and production troubleshooting needs.• Define and maintain database development and maintenance standards for schema changes, naming conventions, indexing, Azure database maintenance patterns, backup and retention, rollback, deployment readiness, documentation, and database design review checkpoints. • Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability practices for database health, availability, storage growth, blocking, deadlocks, capacity trends, and operational risk. • Develop and validate backup, restore, disaster recovery, failover, high availability, security, encryption, data classification, access control, auditing, and compliance practices aligned to business availability, RPO, and RTO expectations. • Evaluate data architecture options and patterns including datastore selection, archiving, caching, non-SQL data storage, purge strategy, cold storage, multitenancy, tenant isolation, shared versus database-per-tenant models, partitioning, sharding, consistency, workload isolation, and the decision process for selecting the right datastore for a given need. • Review upcoming epics, SaaS initiatives, modernization plans, and product roadmap items to identify database implications early and translate improvement opportunities into actionable backlog items or PBIs or stories. • Identify and remediate technical debt, scaling risks, schema complexity, storage inefficiencies, production stability concerns, cloud cost drivers, and opportunities for performance improvement, schema simplification, Azure cloud cost optimization, and risk mitigation. • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident improvement planning, architecture documentation, standards documentation, operational procedures, and recommended future-state improvements.
Required Qualifications: • Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Database Developer, Database Administrator, Cloud Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or similar role. • Hands-on experience administering and optimizing Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database environments. • Hands-on experience addressing non-functional requirements while delivering functional outcomes. • Hands-on experience collaborating with architects, leads, and delivery teams to develop and support end-to-end solution delivery.• Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, statistics, and database maintenance. • Experience supporting application development teams with schema design, data modeling, database change review, and production troubleshooting. • Familiarity with common application development languages and frameworks used in database-backed systems, including C#, .NET, and Entity Framework Core. • Working knowledge of backup, restore, disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support practices. • Understanding database security, encryption, access management, auditing, and data protection practices. • Ability to document standards, communicate technical recommendations clearly, and collaborate across distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Monitor, Query Store, Performance Insights, Log Analytics, and related Azure database tooling; Azure SQL Managed Instance experience is helpful where applicable. • Experience with SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, tenant isolation strategies, partitioning, sharding, and large-scale cloud database environments. • Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, database deployment automation, schema migration tools, and release management practices. • Knowledge of archiving, caching, non-SQL data storage patterns, data archival, purge strategies, and cloud cost optimization methods. • Microsoft Azure or SQL Server certifications are preferred. • Experience working with globally distributed application development and product teams.
Always advancing. Always progressing. From curiosity to clarity to results. That’s Wipfli. We’re Wipfli, a top 25 advisory firm with a strong CPA foundation serving 54,000 clients across today’s most complex industries. For more than 90 years, we have evolved and grown to help our clients take on whatever comes next. Yet as much as we change, at our core, we remain committed to curiosity and our clients. Our more than 3,000 full-time associates help our clients with services that range from business consulting and digital services to audit and accounting. We focus on emerging and mid-market organizations with specialized knowledge in industries like financial institutions, financial services, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, construction, real estate, government, nonprofit, agriculture, auto dealerships, technology and tribal gaming and government. Our mission to create a lasting, positive impact extends beyond our clients to our associates and communities. We believe in a workplace — and world — where everyone feels included and diversity is embraced. To foster that, we are committed to creating an environment where everyone is equally supported, empowered and encouraged. Through initiatives focused on leadership, recruitment, training and diverse business resource groups, we will continue to become a more inclusive firm and build the workforce of the future. We know that diversity makes us all stronger. Visit www.wipfli.com/EmailSignup to get updates from our team. You can also find us on Facebook and X at: - X: www.x.com/Wipfli_Official - Facebook: www.facebook.com/WipfliOfficial Specialties: Digital services, organizational performance, executive coaching, financial solutions, audit/accounting, outsourcing and mitigating risk.
Offices: 10000 Innovation Dr., Suite 250, Milwaukee, WI 53051, US · 150 South 5th Street, Suite 2000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, US · 3 Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103, US · 1 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60606, US · 201 W. North River Drive, Suite 400, Spokane, WA 99201, US
Always advancing. Always progressing. From curiosity to clarity to results. That’s Wipfli. We’re Wipfli, a top 25 advisory firm with a strong CPA foundation serving 54,000 clients across today’s most complex industries. For more than 90 years, we have evolved and grown to help our clients take on whatever comes next. Yet as much as we change, at our core, we remain committed to curiosity and our clients. Our more than 3,000 full-time associates help our clients with services that range from business consulting and digital services to audit and accounting. We focus on emerging and mid-market organizations with specialized knowledge in industries like financial institutions, financial services, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, construction, real estate, government, nonprofit, agriculture, auto dealerships, technology and tribal gaming and government. Our mission to create a lasting, positive impact extends beyond our clients to our associates and communities. We believe in a workplace — and world — where everyone feels included and diversity is embraced. To foster that, we are committed to creating an environment where everyone is equally supported, empowered and encouraged. Through initiatives focused on leadership, recruitment, training and diverse business resource groups, we will continue to become a more inclusive firm and build the workforce of the future. We know that diversity makes us all stronger. Visit www.wipfli.com/EmailSignup to get updates from our team. You can also find us on Facebook and X at: - X: www.x.com/Wipfli_Official - Facebook: www.facebook.com/WipfliOfficial Specialties: Digital services, organizational performance, executive coaching, financial solutions, audit/accounting, outsourcing and mitigating risk.
Offices: 10000 Innovation Dr., Suite 250, Milwaukee, WI 53051, US · 150 South 5th Street, Suite 2000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, US · 3 Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103, US · 1 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60606, US · 201 W. North River Drive, Suite 400, Spokane, WA 99201, US
