Job Description

Job Location: New York, NY 10020
Position Type: Full Time / Experienced Level
Salary Range: $150,000.00 - $180,000.00 Salary/year
Job Category: Corporate ITCitrin Cooperman offers a dynamic work environment, fostering professional growth and collaboration. We’re continuously seeking talented individuals who bring fresh perspectives, a problem-solving mindset, and sharp technical expertise. We know you have choices, so our team of collaborative, innovative professionals are at the ready to support your professional development. At Citrin Cooperman, we offer competitive compensation and benefits and most importantly, the flexibility to manage your personal and professional life to focus on what matters most to you!
We are looking for a AQL Administrator to join the Development team within the Information Technology (IT) department. They will architect, implement, and maintain the organization’s database infrastructure across both cloud and hybrid environments. This role focuses on performance, scalability, security, automation, and high availability to support mission critical systems with strict SLAs.
The ideal candidate has hands-on expertise in SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, as well as modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Data fabric). They will lead database optimization and reliability engineering, as well as collaborate across analytics, engineering, and security teams.
Responsibilities are, but not limited to:
- Lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise database platforms including SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and modern cloud data services.
- Drive performance engineering initiatives by conducting in-depth query analysis, optimizing indexing strategies, tuning execution plans, and refining system configurations to ensure optimal database responsiveness.
- Architect and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions—including clustering, mirroring, replication, and reading replica strategies—to ensure continuity of mission critical systems.
- Plan backup, restore, and point in time recovery operations, ensuring alignment with organizational RPO/RTO requirements and compliance mandates.
- Define long-term enterprise database architecture strategies, standards, and modernization roadmaps in collaboration with executives and enterprise architects.
- Lead cloud migration initiatives and evaluate emerging database technologies for enterprise adoption (e.g., serverless databases, distributed SQL, cloud-native architectures).
- Establish and enforce database security frameworks, including RBAC, encryption, secrets management, access auditing, and adherence to least privilege principles.
- Drive database modernization efforts, including consolidation, platform upgrades, and adoption of automation-first operational models.
- Develop automation workflows for provisioning, patching, scaling, DR testing, and lifecycle maintenance using TSQL, PowerShell, and CI/CD methodologies.
- Implement enterprise monitoring and observability practices, leveraging performance analytics, capacity metrics, and event diagnostics to enhance system stability.
- Troubleshoot, Support and optimize data warehouse, BI, and analytics ecosystems such as Snowflake, Databricks, and related platforms.
- Produce comprehensive documentation, including architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, application development, and infrastructure teams to modernize data flows, enhance system interoperability, and support product innovation.
- Lead incident response efforts for database related outages, performing root cause analysis and implementing long term corrective measures.
- Provide mentorship, technical leadership, and knowledge sharing to junior DBAs and cross functional engineering teams.

QualificationsThe ideal candidate must:
- Have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
- Possess Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Database Specialty. Knowledge & Experience (preferred).
- Have 10+ years of database administration experience in enterprise settings.
- Have 10+ years of hands-on database administration experience in enterprise environments.
- Possess deep technical knowledge of SQL Server and cloud based relational database services.
- Possess strong proficiency in TSQL, PowerShell, scripting, and automation.
- Have experience with data warehousing, analytics platforms, and modern cloud data ecosystems.
- Possess strong understanding of compliance, security, governance, and audit best practices.
- Possess excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Possess a security focused mindset with deep understanding of compliance frameworks.
- Work effectively under pressure and adapt to rapidly changing environments.
- Be highly analytical, detail oriented, and self-driven with strong ownership.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Possess strong collaboration, interpersonal skills, and consistent follow-through.