Senior Database Engineer — SQL & Postgres

Jack Henry; Allen (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jack Henry in Allen, TX is seeking a Senior Database Engineer who will design, code, optimize, and modify databases and database applications, developing tables, stored procedures, views, triggers, and other objects while tuning performance and ensuring security.

You’ll collaborate with developers on data access, participate in design meetings, mentor junior engineers, and support CI/CD tooling. The role requires onsite presence one day per week in Allen.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in database administration.
• Experience writing SQL queries.
• Proficiency
• Must be familiar with object-oriented programming.

Responsibilities

• Writes and reviews stored procedures, functions, and other programmable objects for high-volume transaction processing systems.
• Participates on scrum teams as the SQL expert, helping to move features through the software development lifecycle.
• Tunes queries for optimal performance by closely examining execution plan and ensuring appropriate indexing.
• Writes and maintains unit tests.
• Monitors and maintains database CI/CD devops tooling and ensures accuracy of update/rollback scripts for database deployments.
• Trains and mentors junior team members.

Skills

SQL queries

Object oriented programming

Tools

GoLang

Job description

Jack Henry in Allen, TX is seeking a Senior Database Engineer who will design, code, optimize, and modify databases and database applications, developing tables, stored procedures, views, triggers, and other objects while tuning performance and ensuring security.

You’ll collaborate with developers on data access, participate in design meetings, mentor junior engineers, and support CI/CD tooling. The role requires onsite presence one day per week in Allen.