Senior Data Engineer

RealPage; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 106,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RealPage is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join the Front Office - Screening BI and Data Warehouse team. You will design and maintain a large SSIS/SSRS/T-SQL platform powering screening operations, billing, and reports. You will mentor juniors and partner with product owners on changes via user stories and defects.

You will optimize T-SQL, tune performance, and manage ETL across Dev/QA/Prod, ensuring data quality and auditability with robust documentation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building and supporting production Data Warehouse, ETL, and Reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SSIS packages (Visual Studio 2019+) that load transactional and reference data into the reporting warehouse.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL

SSIS

SSRS

Data Warehousing

Data Modeling

Azure DevOps

GitHub

AI-assisted coding

Tools

Visual Studio 2017/2019+

SQL Server Management Studio

Power BI

SSAS

Redshift

Job description

Overview

RealPage is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join theFront Office - Screening BI and Data Warehouse team. This role owns the SQL Server–based reporting, ETL, and data warehouse codebase that powers screening operations, billing, compliance, and customer-facing reports across the Screening business. You will design andmaintaina large SSIS/SSRS/T-SQL platform, deliver new reports and ETL jobs in response to business and customer requests, and uphold the data quality and audit standards asrequired.

You will be the technical SME and will work with the product owner for changes that flow through user stories, service requests, and defects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SSIS packages (Visual Studio 2019+) that load transactional and reference data into the reporting warehouse.

• Design, build and enhance SSRS reports (.rdl) keeping in mind the performance.

• Write and optimize T-SQL — stored procedures, functions, views, triggers — following the team’s SQL object templates and naming conventions.

• Diagnose and resolve production data and report issues raised via Service Requests and Defects; perform root cause analysis and deliver durable fixes, not just patches.

• Tune query and package performance: indexing strategy, execution plan analysis, batching, partitioning, and ETL throughput.

• Model and evolve relational schemas (dimensions, fact tables, staging, source-of-truth structures) to support new reporting needs without breaking existing consumers.

• Manage environment and configuration changes (e.g., server moves, connection updates) safely across Dev, QA, and Prod tiers.

• Reviewpullrequests in Azure DevOps; enforce SQL/SSIS standards and protect downstream report contracts.

• Partner with QA and BAs tovalidatereport output against business expectations and historical data.

• Maintain auditability and traceability of data, ETL packages, and report changes.

• Mentor junior data/reportengineers;contribute to internal documentation, templates, and onboarding material.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate T-SQL authoring, SSIS package review, report changes, troubleshooting, and test data generation.

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of professional experience building and supportingproductionData Warehouse, ETL, and Reporting systems.

• Deep hands‑onexpertisewithMicrosoft SQL ServerandT-SQL: stored procedures, functions, CTEs, window functions, performance tuning, indexing, and execution plan analysis.

• Strong experience authoring and maintainingSSIS packagesin Visual Studio (2017/2019 or later) — control flow, data flow, parameterization, configurations, error handling, and deployment.

• Strong experience designing and maintainingSSRS reports(.rdl) — datasets, parameters, expressions,subreports, andrenderingfor operational and customer-facing use.

• Solid relational data modeling skills for OLTP staging and warehouse/reporting structures; comfort working in a large existing schema with many downstream dependencies.

• Experienceoperatingin a regulated environment with change control, segregation of duties, and audit evidence requirements.

• Comfort with ticket-driven Kanban delivery (Service Requests, Defects, User Stories) and PR-based change management inAzure DevOps / GitHub.

• Strong analytical and root‑causeanalysisskills for production data issues; ability to readcomplexreal-world data and reasonaboutwhat the right answer should be.

• Hands‑on experience with AI-assisted coding, specificallyClaude Code, for day‑to‑day development work — authoring and reviewing T-SQL, navigating large SSIS/SSRS codebases, generating and validating test data, drafting documentation, and troubleshooting production issues.

• Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate business and compliance requirements into precise data changes.

Preferred

• Familiarity with the consumer screening, tenant screening, or financial services billing domain.

• Experience with SSAS, Power BI, or other reporting/analytics layers built on top of SQL Server.

• Experience with SQL Server Agent jobs, scheduling, modern SQL tooling, and operational monitoring of ETL/report workloads.

• Exposure tocloud dataplatformsRedshift,QuickSight, and migration patterns from on-prem SQL Server.

• Source control hygiene with repos in Azure DevOps or GitHub. Experiencesetting up CI checks for SQL/SSIS artifacts.

• Experience producing andmaintainingdata lineage andimpactanalysis for reports and downstream consumers.

WhatYou’llWork In

• Languages / platforms:T-SQL, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Redshift

• Tooling:Visual Studio 2019 or later, SQL Server Management Studio

• Source control & delivery:Azure DevOps / GitHub, PR-based reviews

Pay Range

USD $105,800.00 - USD $180,200.00 /Yr.