Info Way Solutions LLC
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Job Description :

Role: SQL Server DBA
Location: Dallas, TX - (Onsite)
Type: Contract
Job description :
  • SQL Srver 2016–2022 administration
  • Query tuning, indexing, and performance optimization
  • Database maintenance (DBCC checks, index rebuilds, shrink/cleanup strategies)
  • Backup/restore + HA/DR
  • SQL Security & Role-Based Access Control
  • Understanding of SQL Agent jobs and ETL schedules
  • Familiarity with integrations:
    • API feeds
    • Scheduled batch imports
    • File-based ingest
    • Sync issues between systems
  • Experience with large transactional databases (retail /hospitality requires heavy item-level transactions
  • Ability to understand and correlate Hospitality + Retail + Multi-Property Ops Context:
Desired Skills/ Experience:
  • Retail System-Specific Technical Skills are desired (i.e.. - Understanding of things like):
    • Inventory adjustments
    • Retail/Field-level vs centralized inventory
    • Purchase orders
    • Receiving processes
    • Price books
    • SKU structures
    • Ability to interpret POS (Point-of-Sale) data structures
  • Experience with inventory systems or retail ERP
    • Yellow Dog is a plus (not required if strong SQL + inventory background)
Tools/Technologies:
  • SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
  • SQL Profiler, Extended Events
  • SQL monitoring (RedGate or SolarWinds)
  • Power BI or Tableau (for data quality dashboards)
  • Windows Server & Active Directory basics
  • ETL tools (SSIS likely)
  • Git or version control (light usage for scripts)
  • Yellow Dog APIs / integration layer (desired but not required)
“solid business acumen,” this is NOT just a backend DBA. -> Very important
They need someone who can:
  • Explain data errors to non-technical teams
    • Understand why bad inventory data = lost revenue
  • Document and recommend operational improvements
  • Work cross-functionally with:
    • Finance
    • Retail GM/Directors
    • Store managers
    • Corporate IT
  • Translate root causes into business impact
    • Example: “SKU duplication is causing margin calculation errors “)
Daily Activities
  • Monitor SQL Server database health:
    • Review slow queries, blocking, deadlocks
    • Manage backups, restores, and failover preparedness:
    • Validate data feeds from POS →
    • Yellow Dog → downstream systems
    • Fix data hygiene issues:
      • orphaned records
      • mismatched SKUs
      • duplicate items
      • incorrect unit conversion
      • Analyze data anomalies impacting retail operations
  • Work with retail operations and finance to understand data gaps
  • Document DB architecture and data flow
  • Provide guidance on how to stabilize and scale the system
Project Work:
  • Index tuning & rebuilding
  • Migrating SQL instances or consolidating servers
  • Hardening SQL Server security
  • Improving disaster recovery and backup strategy
  • Building monitoring dashboards
  • Working with Yellow Dog vendor support
  • Supporting new store openings or rollouts
  • Helping prepare for PCI or SOX compliance (retail touches payments → high compliance needs)

             

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