Overview

We're supporting a global healthcare commercialization consultancy (HQ: New York) looking for an experienced SQL Server DBA / Database Engineer on a project basis.

The focus is on stabilising a legacy SQL Server environment, resolving performance and reliability issues, improving documentation, and defining a clear migration plan off an end-of-life SQL Server version - hands-on, high-impact work rather than long-term maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Stabilise a legacy SQL Server environment.
• Resolve performance and reliability issues.
• Improve documentation related to the database environment.
• Define a clear migration plan off an end-of-life SQL Server version.
• Perform hands-on, high-impact work rather than long-term maintenance.

Contract

• 6-month contract, ~35 hours/week (full-time equivalent with flexibility).
• 2 weekends per month for migration windows (compensated ...