Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Job Description:
Elite Technology is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Database Engineer to lead the development, optimization, and maintenance of large-scale database systems in a multi-cloud environment, with a primary focus on Azure. This role combines technical expertise, mentorship, and strategic thinking to build scalable, high-quality solutions for database operations, reporting, and ETL processes while driving innovation and best practices across the team.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and maintain scalable operational and reporting database systems, including data modeling and ETL processes.
- Lead architectural design discussions, ensuring robust and scalable solutions across a multi-cloud environment.
- Manage SQL Server environments, including installation, backup, recovery, upgrades, and schema changes.
- Architect Azure-based solutions, leveraging services like Azure Data Factory (ADF) for optimized performance and cost.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database issues while optimizing performance and ensuring data integrity.
- Build and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, and ETL pipelines to support reporting and analytics.
- Mentor and coach junior and senior engineers, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver tailored database solutions.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools for database provisioning.
- Stay current with emerging database technologies and ensure best practices in DevOps and database engineering.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience designing, troubleshooting, and managing large-scale database systems, particularly on Azure.
- Expertise in SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, MySQL, PL/SQL, and Python (preferred).
- Strong knowledge of ETL processes, data modeling, and database architecture.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and observability platforms like Prometheus or Grafana.
- Proven leadership in mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence within teams.
- Solid programming background with object-oriented languages and UNIX environments.
- Ability to architect solutions to transition on-premise applications to cloud-native workloads.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to solve complex problems in scalable, repeatable ways.
- Availability for on-call rotations to address production issues and ensure operational reliability.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($150,000 - $180,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible remote work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Oklahoma.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
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