Senior Database Engineer

Job title: Senior Database Engineer (SQL)

Reports to: Manager, Database Administration

Department: Cloud Platforms

Location: Alpharetta or Remote

Grade: 19

About Priority: 

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter.

We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.

At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive.

About the Role:

As a Database Developer, your primary role involves analyzing and rewriting to enhance legacy code or database queries and procedures to improve database performance and query time per second. Able to work with the Application Development team to understand business needs and write advanced TSQL functions and stored procedures. Assist in archiving, automation and query writing best practices. 

Responsibilities: 

• Over 5+ years of professional experiences in writing SQL Scripts, including complex queries, views, triggers, functions and stored procedures. 

• Working cohesively with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues. 

• Participate in code reviews to validate effectiveness and quality of code.

• Develops, enhances, debugs, supports, maintains and tests complex query analysis and implementation that support multiple applications and business units.

• Perform analysis, design, estimation and development of the database components.

• Solid understanding of data integrity, primary keys, foreign keys and data consistency. 

• Fundamental knowledge of query optimizer, query cache and index analysis for optimization efforts. 

• High critical thinking skills to assess alternatives and propose effective solutions.

• Openness to discussions aligning with business objectives and strategies. 

• Expertise in Database Architecture in the environment that handles large volumes of data. 

• Deep understanding of RDBMS database architecture and multi-platform knowledge as SQL Server and MySQL query patterns.

What Success Looks Like: 

Success in a Senior Database Engineer role is marked by a blend of deep technical expertise, operational excellence, proactive problem-solving, and strategic thinking.

• Outages and performance issues are rare—and when they occur, root causes are quickly diagnosed and permanently addressed.

• You design and implement data solutions that align with business needs and long-term scalability.

• All databases are compliant with relevant standards

• Backups, restores, deployments, and schema migrations are automated and tested.

Candidate Requirements:

Required:

• BE or BS Degree in one of the following subject areas: Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology or related field. 

• Preferred 5-10 years IT operation with strong understanding o