Leads database design, development, administration, optimization, maintenance, and production support. Manages SQL Server environments, T-SQL programming, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, migrations, and deployments. Conducts code and design reviews, establishes database standards, troubleshoots critical production issues, mentors database professionals, and collaborates with application, architecture, DevOps, and infrastructure teams across RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.