diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 7dc5c79..94aa064 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ History
 =======
 
 
+v0.15.3 (2021-10-27)
+
+* Move the import of pyodbc within the function that uses it since it requires additional dependencies.
+
+
 v0.15.2 (2021-10-13)
 
 * Fix error in FICE enrolled logic by setting enrolled field instead of confirmed.
diff --git a/aioradio/file_ingestion.py b/aioradio/file_ingestion.py
index e4f5d2a..812428f 100644
--- a/aioradio/file_ingestion.py
+++ b/aioradio/file_ingestion.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # pylint: disable=broad-except
 # pylint: disable=consider-using-enumerate
+# pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
 # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 # pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation
 # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
 import re
+import sys
 import time
 import zipfile
 from asyncio import sleep
@@ -37,7 +39,6 @@
 
 from aioradio.aws.secrets import get_secret
 from aioradio.psycopg2 import establish_psycopg2_connection
-from aioradio.pyodbc import establish_pyodbc_connection
 
 DIRECTORY = Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
 LOG = logging.getLogger('file_ingestion')
@@ -1042,6 +1043,11 @@ async def child_wrapper(*args, **kwargs) -> Any:
                 if item['db'] in ['pyodbc', 'psycopg2']:
                     creds = {**json.loads(await get_secret(item['secret'], item['region'])), **{'database': item.get('database', '')}}
                     if item['db'] == 'pyodbc':
+                        # Add import here because it requires extra dependencies many systems
+                        # don't have out of the box so only import when explicitly being used
+                        if 'pyodbc' not in sys.modules:
+                            from aioradio.pyodbc import \
+                                establish_pyodbc_connection
                         conns[item['name']] = await establish_pyodbc_connection(**creds, autocommit=False)
                     elif item['db'] == 'psycopg2':
                         conns[item['name']] = await establish_psycopg2_connection(**creds)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 40bc54b..f8a382d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     long_description = fileobj.read()
 
 setup(name='aioradio',
-    version='0.15.2',
+    version='0.15.3',
     description='Generic asynchronous i/o python utilities for AWS services (SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Secrets Manager), Redis, MSSQL (pyodbc), JIRA and more',
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",