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Zipdev

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

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🤝 B2B

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Recruitment • B2B • HR Tech

Zipdev is a company that specializes in providing remote talent solutions, particularly focused on hiring top Latin American professionals. Zipdev enables companies to build high-performing teams in their own time zones while reducing costs compared to local hiring. The company offers a streamlined hiring process that includes defining hiring needs, selecting top candidates, and onboarding new team members, handling payroll and HR overhead. Zipdev fills a variety of technical and professional roles, such as software engineers, project managers, and designers. The company is recognized for its ability to provide cultural alignment and scalable, flexible hiring solutions.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and evolve database schemas and data structures across SQL and NoSQL platforms. • Own data modeling strategies across relational and non-relational databases, selecting the most appropriate structures for each application and workload. • Oversee schema design and governance for both legacy and modern systems. • Create and maintain normalized relational models as well as denormalized and document-based data structures. • Partner with engineering teams to translate business and clinical requirements into scalable database solutions. • Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, and related database platforms. • Monitor database health, performance, availability, backups, and disaster recovery processes. • Perform query optimization, index maintenance, partitioning strategies, and capacity planning. • Troubleshoot complex database issues and implement long-term solutions. • Ensure high availability and reliability across production environments. • Design, review, and manage schema changes, upgrades, and database migrations across multiple environments. • Lead modernization initiatives involving long-standing legacy systems and database transformations. • Support data synchronization and movement across heterogeneous platforms. • Work with ETL, ELT, data gateway, and change-data-capture (CDC) processes to ensure data consistency. • Maintain data integrity across cloud and on-premise systems. • Collaborate with Infrastructure and Cloud teams to provision, configure, and secure database environments. • Support cloud-hosted database services within Microsoft Azure. • Implement database security controls, access governance, and compliance standards. • Manage user permissions, data access controls, and audit requirements. • Ensure proper backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures are maintained. • Create and maintain data dictionaries, schema documentation, entity relationship diagrams, and database architecture documentation. • Establish database governance standards and best practices. • Ensure schema changes are properly versioned, documented, and safely deployed. • Provide technical guidance and recommendations on database strategy and architecture.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or Data Platform Engineer. • Strong experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments. • Experience with PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational databases. • Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, or similar document/key-value stores. • Strong expertise in relational and non-relational data modeling. • Experience designing and governing schema changes and database migrations. • Experience supporting legacy system modernization and database transformation projects. • Strong SQL query optimization, indexing, and database performance tuning skills. • Experience with ETL, ELT, data synchronization, or data movement pipelines. • Understanding of Change Data Capture (CDC) and cross-platform data synchronization strategies. • Experience with Microsoft Azure database services and cloud-hosted environments. • Knowledge of backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery processes. • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. • Excellent attention to detail and documentation skills. • Strong written and verbal English communication skills. • **Nice-to-Haves** • Experience with Azure Cosmos DB at scale. • Experience with enterprise healthcare, healthcare technology, or regulated industries. • Experience supporting SaaS products and cloud-native applications. • Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance requirements. • Experience with database automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • Familiarity with data warehousing and analytics platforms. • Experience working with hybrid cloud and on-premise environments. • Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices related to database deployments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends) • Health Care Reimbursement • Active Lifestyle Reimbursement • Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement • Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans • Continuous Learning Bonus • Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms • Did we mention it's REMOTE?!!