Lead SQL Developer

Job description

Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet’s safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols. We embrace the best of both worlds! Local talent can thrive in our collaborative office space with the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, while remote team members play an integral role in shaping our dynamic culture from afar. We have offices in Montreal (Quebec), Austin (Texas) and Nicosia (Cyprus). **\*A select number of positions require full-time in office attendance\*** Our Data Warehouse Team is looking for a Lead SQL Developer to contribute to the evolution of our enterprise data platform within the Data Warehouse Services team. This role combinestechnical leadership and hands-on engineering. The Lead will guide a team of data engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating modern data pipelines and analytical platforms across Azure. **What you'll be doing:** - Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to data engineers and SQL developers, leading design discussions and architecture reviews. - Establish engineering standards and best practices for data pipelines, lakehouse platforms, and SQL development, including code and design reviews. - Mentor team members and support their technical growth. - Design and evolve a modern Azure data platform using Azure Synapse Analytics, Synapse Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure SQL Database, and Microsoft Fabric. - Define scalable architecture patterns for lakehouse platforms, Delta Lake tables, data ingestion pipelines, and data quality frameworks. - Optimize and troubleshoot Spark workloads, Synapse queries, and Azure SQL performance. - Improve platform reliability, observability, monitoring, and Azure workload cost efficiency. - Support operational processes including investigating alerts, resolving data pipeline failures, and improving operational runbooks. **What you'll need to be successful:** **Must Haves:** - 6+ years of experience in data development. - 2+ years experience leading or mentoring technical teams. - 2+ years of hands-on Azure Cloud experience, including proficiency in Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Database, Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Delta Lake. - Hands-on experience with PySpark, Delta Lake/lakehouse architectures, and large-scale data ingestion pipelines. - Strong T-SQL knowledge and relational database design. - Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines. - Strong troubleshooting skills in data pipeline and database performance issues. - Experience working with hybrid environments (Azure, on-prem SQL Server). - Strong communication and leadership skills. **Nice to Haves:** - Experience with Microsoft Fabric - Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / Git) - Experience with cost optimization of cloud data platforms - Familiarity with Azure networking and integration runtimes - Experience designing data quality and observability frameworks - Demonstrated judgment reviewing and correcting AI-generated code - Evidence of having restructured workflows around AI, beyond occasional use - Hands-on experience building or configuring AI agents and automated workflows **As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees** **In this role you may be exposed to adult content**