Bullhorn is the leading global software provider for the staffing and recruitment industry. More than 10,000 companies rely on Bullhorn’s cloud-based platform to power their staffing processes from start to finish. Through our incredible products and services, we create raving fan customers, resulting in company growth that consistently offers new opportunities for our talent to advance their careers. 35% of our global workforce gets promoted or moves into a new role every year, expanding their skills and working with new people. Bullhorn is large enough to provide these exciting opportunities but small enough to maintain the energy of a startup, and we’re consistently ranked as a great place to work for our strong culture and rewarding career opportunities.

Our commitment to our employees: Every Bullhorn employee has a sense of belonging, a voice that is heard, and a clear path to success. Bullhorn offers unlimited planned vacation, great opportunities for career development, quarterly paid volunteer days through its philanthropic group Bullhorn Cares, and an open invitation to Bullhorn Allies groups, which celebrate and cultivate diversity and inclusion for all employees.

Our in-office employees enjoy a casual, collaborative environment with weekly catered-in lunch and breakfast, and quarterly social events. While working from the comfort of their own homes, our remote employees are provided a full equipment package with all the tools they need to perform their role. We use Zoom, Slack, and other tools to stay connected while we are remote.

Why this job is important - You will:

Identify, research, and design new solutions to define complex features, breakthrough scalability and performance bottlenecks, and help improve system health

Lead our Data Engineering organization, mentor our data engineers and create and support best practices. 

Explore new and currently utilized data technologies and identify opportunities to expand and improve Bullhorn’s data maturity and expertise. 

Work with engineers and product managers to determine and document database requirements by analyzing user operations, application functionality, performance requirements as well as developing and maintaining logical data models. 

Work closely with engineers and architects on the design of software components that provide data access services to the applications.

Investigate and recommend alternative and complementary database technologies to expand the functionality and relevance of our products.

Establish baselines and a strategy for ongoing performance, load, and stress testing.

Work with engineers to develop standards, address performance issues, tune the databases and adjust application functionality as appropriate.

Work with the architectural team to establish suitable backup, security, redundancy, scalability and recovery strategies.

Assist in developing the support, monitoring and analysis of the production data systems.

A typical day might include:

Collaborating with engineering and product management to design future looking data models to provide an effective data representation for our business needs.

Developing disaster recovery plans.

Working with Operations to provide automated standardized deployment of our data and data assets.

Developing and refining our monitoring capabilities to provide transparency across our platform

Identifying solutions to technical team impediments, and finding ways to make our development practice better.

Defining architectural principles, patterns, and best practices.

Mentoring and coaching engineers and dbas to adhere to those best practices.

This role may be a fit for you if:

You have 7+ years of experience designing and building data platforms for scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Data modeling at both logical and physical levels

Performance testing, baselining, and tuning

SQL Server 2008 (and later) Database Services, Analysis Services, and Security Features

You’re a tech guru with a passion for continuous improvement who’s excited by finding better designs for software and data.

Bonus points for:

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

Knowledge in designing database models for transactional and distributed databases

Expertise in tuning applications and data models for performance.

SQL Server 2008 (and later) Integration Services, Clustering and Replication Services, and Reporting Services.

Disaster recovery and failover methodologies.

Newer features of SQL Server 2016+ such as in-memory capabilities, CDC and columnar index improvements.

Multiple DBMS systems such as Oracle, SAP Hana, and Apache Hadoop.

Enterprise Data Warehousing systems.

NoSQL database experience, e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, CouchDB, DynamoDB, etc.

Bullhorn is committed to our core values and we are looking for people who exhibit these traits: 

- Service - You go beneath the surface to solve problems.

- Energy - You build up your teammates and leave people positively charged.

- Ownership - You take action and own up to your mistakes.

- Speed & Agility - You go around obstacles and demonstrate urgency.

- Being Human - You consider other people's perspectives, laugh, and have fun.

Bullhorn is fully committed to equal opportunities. We aim to create a working environment free from discrimination. This means all job applicants and employees will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, race, religion, or belief, gender or sexual orientation.