Insight Global
Aurora, CO, USA
Job Description A Higher Education client of Insight Global is seeking a Senior Database Administrator and Data Integration Specialist to lead efforts in managing, modernizing, and integrating their data platforms. This role combines core SQL Server DBA responsibilities-such as optimizing performance, ensuring security, and implementing high availability and disaster recovery strategies-with leadership in modernization initiatives, including migrating large on-premises databases to cloud-based solutions like Azure SQL and building on-premises big data environments. The ideal candidate will have experience with data orchestration tools such as Dagster, and technologies like Spark, dbt, DuckDB, and Airbyte to design and automate end-to-end data pipelines. Responsibilities include defining architecture upgrades, integrating SQL Server with big data platforms, implementing governance and observability practices, and leveraging DevOps principles for automation and CI/CD deployments....
