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# Database Performance Engineer / Data Engineer

- **Company:** J-ram It Consulting Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Databases, IBM DB2, DB2 SQL, SQL Stored Procedures, Snowflake, Code Restructuring, Sql Tuning, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/94c33aae-e3ad-4da7-939f-e0e39ba60b64

## About the Role

looking for a person who not a database maintenance guy but a data engineer with deep DB2 and good Snowflake experience. Here is what we are looking for:

 * DB2 database expertise and DB2 development experience not a DB2 maintenance person (8+ years)
 * Ability to think through issues like a DBA
 * Deep experience in SQL performance tuning experience on DB2 (6+ years)
 * Understanding, developing and refactoring stored procedures on DB2 to DB2 SQL (6+ years)
 * Identifying stored procedures that can be extracted and programmed in Scala or a similar programming language (4+ years)
 * Exposure and hands-on understanding of Snowflake warehouses and Snowflake SQL tuning (2+ years)
 * Scala development to re-write existing Stored Procedures in Scala (4+ years)



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