Senior Data Engineer – Azure

We’re HCSS. We’re a software company based in Sugar Land, TX and we provide innovative solutions for the construction industry that helps streamline their operations. Our mission at HCSS is to help customers dramatically improve their business through our innovative, high-quality software and exceptionally helpful service, while providing a great life for our employees. With this mission at the forefront of everything we do, we’re recognized as a pioneer and leader in our market and nominated the “Best Companies to Work for in Texas” 15 years in a row. 

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the architecture and design for the database layer for our suite of cloud applications to ensure high availability, to plan disaster recovery strategies, and to implement backup and maintenance processes

• Provide leadership, technical direction, and oversight to multiple software engineering, business intelligence and enterprise software services teams

• Contribute to the technology strategy, architectural vision, integration, and problem solving across the customer facing and internal facing products

• Have a strong desire to understand the root cause and details of systems, get hands-on with code, data, and analysis to evaluate how the teams and the products and services are growing.

• Be the organization's sought after individual for modern data architecture and providing support for addressing defense and compliance.

WHO WE NEED:

We’re currently looking for a Senior Data Engineer – Azure with proven experience in database administration to join our high-performing Technology team and provide our customers with quality service. If you're a fit, the following things should sound like you: 

• Experience managing and providing oversight of Azure cloud databases, Azure Elastic Pools, and Azure SQL Servers.

• Relational Database Administrator and Engineering experience (SQL Server, Azure SQL), index optimization, merge processing .

• Advanced knowledge of SQL database administration on Azure with strong replication and high availability knowledge.

• Demonstrated mastery of industry best practices, including CI/CD principles and secure coding practices.

• Optimization, database maintenance (index maintenance, statistics maintenance, DBCC CHECKDB), deadlock resolution, and database user and role security.

• Knowledge of modern and emerging cloud technologies and particularly on MIcrosoft Azure.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to ensure continuous value delivery through iterative and incremental improvements.

• Experience running mission critical systems at scale in the cloud.

WORK WITH OUR TECHNOLOGY TEAM? 

• A sought after expert. You are in the front seat, leading our data tier architecture and design process for infrastructure that serves some of the world’s largest construction companies. 

• Engaging, driven, and a collaborative team. We are a fun and friendly team that immensely values teamwork. We deeply care and support each other so we can collectively impact the company, the customer, and the industry.

• Impact an industry. Construction is going through a technology evolution and we have the fantastic opportunity to be in the front seat to aid in that transition. 

• Build products of real value. We come to work dedicated to building proven and dependable products for the people of the construction industry. We strive to delight them through outcome-driven, customer-centric, and evidence-based solutions.

BENEFITS & PERKS:

Part of our mission statement is to provide a great life for our employees. We believe that happy employees make for a better company, so we take care of them. Here are a few of the perks we offer:

• Flexibility for you to work in-office, hybrid or remote

• Company paid medical and dental premiums

• On-site gym and fitness classes

• Protection plan for your pets

• 401k match

• Educational tuition reimbursement

• And more!