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# Sr Database & Data Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Job Cloud Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Cloud Database, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Applications, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Power BI, SAP (Applications), SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Web Applications, Data Processing, Database Performance, Indexer, Backend, Git, Microsoft Fabric, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Restful APIs, Model Context Protocol, Splunk, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/97b74fad-838c-4b97-ba86-2be67042bbf5

## About the Role

* Advanced SQL expertise and hands-on PostgreSQL experience.

 * Strong knowledge of relational database design, database architecture, schemas, normalization, indexing, and query optimization.

 * Experience developing ETL/ELT processes and production data pipelines.

 * Experience with API-based data integration and integrating multiple enterprise data sources.

 * Python experience for data processing and automation.

 * Demonstrated performance-tuning and troubleshooting skills.

 * Experience handling large-volume data and developing data models.

 * Preferred: experience with Microsoft Fabric or Databricks, Splunk, SAP or other enterprise-system integrations, REST APIs or Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, Power BI backend/data models, cloud databases, CI/CD, Git, web applications, or analytics platforms.

Tools and Technologies:

 * SQL and PostgreSQL

 * Python

 * ETL/ELT pipelines and REST APIs

 * Microsoft Fabric or Databricks

 * Splunk and SAP

 * Power BI

 * Cloud database platforms

 * Git and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)

## Description

This 12-month contract role is based in Santa Clara, California, and supports the design, modernization, and operation of database and data-platform capabilities for customer applications and analytics platforms. The engineer will partner with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers to build reliable, scalable, and observable data services.

Responsibilities:

 * Design database architecture for CAE, Mission Control, and related SPT applications.

 * Build and optimize schemas, queries, stored procedures, indexes, and data models.

 * Develop reliable extract, transform, load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) pipelines between enterprise systems and customer platforms.

 * Help standardize database application programming interfaces (APIs) and reusable data services.

 * Troubleshoot database performance, reliability, and scalability issues.

 * Support migration and modernization efforts, including SQL-to-PostgreSQL workloads.

 * Collaborate with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers.

 * Improve data quality, monitoring, observability, and automation.