Consulting & Principal Software Engineer, Data Systems

RELX INC; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) match

Wellbeing program

Disability & life insurance

Family care benefits

Commuter spending accounts

Volunteer time off

Job summary

RELX INC in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Consulting / Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, optimization and management of large-scale database systems and backend platforms, focusing on data architecture, performance, and Java-based development.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions, implement JDBC/Hibernate/JPA layers, ETL pipelines, and troubleshoot production issues in Unix/Linux environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with a strong database focus.
• Relational databases (MySQL preferred) and data modeling.
• Advanced SQL development and performance tuning.
• Java, JDBC, and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
• Unix/Linux environment and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and build database schemas, tables, indexes, and constraints for OLTP/OLAP.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries with joins, subqueries, CTEs, and window functions.
• Develop stored procedures, triggers, and functions with transaction management and concurrency control.
• Debug and resolve production issues, including slow queries and deadlocks.
• Implement Java-based data access layers using JDBC and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
• Build and support ETL pipelines for large datasets.
• Automate database operations with Bash scripts and cron on Linux/Unix.

Skills

8+ years

Relational databases

SQL development

Java/JDBC/ORM

Production issue resolution

Unix/Linux shell scripting

Tools

Hibernate/JPA

MySQL

Job description

RELX INC in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Consulting / Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, optimization and management of large-scale database systems and backend platforms, focusing on data architecture, performance, and Java-based development.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions, implement JDBC/Hibernate/JPA layers, ETL pipelines, and troubleshoot production issues in Unix/Linux environments.