Database Engineer III

Join Aya Healthcare, winner of multiple Top Workplace awards! 

Aya Healthcare is looking for a Database Developer/Engineer to play a key role in our agile engineering organization, driving the design and performance of mission-critical databases that power our enterprise applications in the healthcare staffing industry. In this role, you will collaborate with an agile development team to design, optimize, and maintain code for high-performance databases supporting critical business applications.

This position requires deep technical expertise in SQL Server, strong collaboration skills, and a commitment to best practices in data integrity, performance tuning, and automation.

Who We Are: 

We’re a $10+ billion dollar, rapidly growing workforce solutions provider in the healthcare industry. We deliver tech-enabled services that help healthcare organizations meet and manage their contingent labor needs. We build and manage tech-enabled marketplaces for national and local healthcare talent and deliver contingent labor management solutions through our proprietary software platform.

At Aya, we’re obsessed with creating exceptional experiences for our clients, clinicians and employees. In fact, we put employee satisfaction above all else. Our team members are responsible for incomparable customer experience and we know that happy employees are critical to maintaining happy clients. We foster an entrepreneurial, high-energy, low-bureaucracy culture and value innovative thinking and creative problem solving. We embrace diversity in thought and backgrounds unified by a commitment to high achievement. When you join Aya, you’ll be surrounded by teammates who care about you as an individual and leaders who will help you grow both personally and professionally.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with your agile team(s) throughout the sprint lifecycle to ensure database solutions meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals
• Design, implement, and maintain SQL Server databases, schemas, stored procedures, functions, and triggers to support application features
• Perform query tuning, index optimization, and execution plan analysis to maintain system performance
• Review and optimize developer created Entity Framework queries for efficiency, maintainability and alignment with business requirements
• Work with developers to ensure database code adheres to best practices for performance and security
• Document processes related to database design, configuration, and performance as needed
• Participate in the on-call rotation (approximately 2–3 times per year for one week at a time) to support production releases and CI/CD pipeline monitoring. During on-call weeks, serve as a liaison for the Database Engineering team, attending releases, ensuring database integrity, and assisting developers or QA team members with data-related questions or issues
• Partner with QA team members to ensure test environments have accurate and performant data sets; assist in data-driven testing and automation

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 5+ years' experience in database engineering
• Strong knowledge of SQL, specifically Microsoft SQL Server
• Strong experience with database technologies, architecture and coding
• Demonstrable experience as a database developer
• Portfolio of previous developments is preferred
• Sound knowledge of best practices in database engineering and data security
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Self-starter and driver towards key projects with an eye towards impact and customer performance needs

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Git for version control and collaboration
• Familiarity with Flyway or similar tools for database migration and schema versioning
• Exposure to DataDog , SQL Sentry and Query Store for performance monitoring and alerting
• Ability to write and maintain automation scripts in PowerShell
• Experience working within Visual Studio and integrating database projects with .NET solutions
• Knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB or other distributed NoSQL databases
• Exposure to Databricks for data transformation, analytics, or integration workflows

What We Offer: 

• Free premium medical, dental, life and vision insurance 
• Generous 401(k) match 
• Aya also offers other benefits to those that are eligible and where required by applicable law, including reimbursements and discretionary bonuses 
• Aya provides paid sick leave in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and local laws. Aya’s general sick leave policy is that employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. However, to the extent any provisions of the statement above conflict with any applicable paid sick leave laws, the applicable paid sick leave laws are controlling 
• Celebrations! We hit our goals and reward ourselves.  
• Company-sponsored virtual events, happy hours and team-building activities are always on the horizon — plus, you get a special treat on your birthday! 
• Unlimited DTO — we believe in time off!  
• Virtual yoga, meditation or boot camp classes offered daily 

Compensation: Aya reasonably anticipates the pay scale for this position to be an annual salary of $156,000 to $165,000.  

The pay scale for this position may vary if applicant possesses experience outside of what Aya reasonably anticipates for this position. Bonuses are subject to the role and your manager’s discretion. 

Aya Is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO), including Disability / Vets, and welcomes all to apply. Please click here for our EEO policy.