Sr Logical Database Administrator / Database Developer

Date: Jul 4, 2026

Location:

AUSTIN, TX

Join the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and be part of a team committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of fellow Texans. At HHSC, your contributions matter, and we support you at each stage of your life and work journey. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees, a defined benefit pension plan, generous time off benefits, numerous opportunities for career advancement and more. Explore more details on the Benefits of Working at HHS webpage.

Functional Title: Sr Logical Database Administrator / Database Developer Job Title: Database Administrator IV Agency: Health & Human Services Comm Department: TIERS Elgblty Apps Staff Posting Number: 17721 Closing Date: 11/17/2026 Posting Audience: Internal and External Occupational Category: Computer and Mathematical Salary Range: $7,015.16 - $9,439.83 Pay Frequency: Monthly

Salary Group: TEXAS-B-27 Shift: Day Additional Shift: Days (First)

Telework Travel: Regular/Temporary: Regular Full Time/Part Time: Full time FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt

Facility Location: Job Location City: AUSTIN

Job Location Address: 1609 CENTRE CREEK

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Brief Job Description This position is open to U.S. Citizens and permanent residents. This onsite role requires the selected candidate to work from an HHS office in Austin, Texas. HHSC Social Services Applications division is seeking a Senior Logical Database Administrator / Database Developer who has a proven track record in developing and maintaining high-performance enterprise software solutions using Agile methodologies.

HHSC Social Services Applications team is responsible for implementing and managing leading edge applications including Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System (TIERS) and the related Eligibility Supporting Technologies portfolio that is used to process applications and to determine eligibility for over 60 types of food, cash assistance, medical, and community care services to Texans in need. We work with cutting edge technologies on many high-impact initiatives that serve various HHSC lines of business. We do this all with an exceptional team of software, database, and dev-ops engineers, working together to make a difference for our customers.

This is an exciting role, demanding a strong background in Oracle database technologies, and is central to ensuring that the TIERS applications portfolio remains available and in service for HHSC Staff and the citizens of the State of Texas. You will work in a fast paced, customer service-based environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and improve database solutions and the databases underlying the TIERS applications portfolio.
• Work closely with the application development teams, business stakeholders and other partners to enhance the TIERS applications portfolio and to implement new solutions.
• Work with a very talented team in building databases and applications using some of the coolest web platform technologies including: Java/J2EE, SOAP/REST web services, Spring, JPA, jQuery, AngularJS, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, PostGreSQL and more.
• Perform advanced logical database administration / database development, performance monitoring & tuning and providing database related support to the application development teams, testing, and defect repair among other responsibilities.
• Utilize Agile development practices to participate in backlog grooming & user story development
• Design, develop, build & test databases and work together with other teams in support of application enhancements planned to support new program & business requests and to enhance scalability & stability of the applications.
• Provide application & database operations triage support to troubleshoot & resolve functional & performance issues encountered in production, development, and test environments. This responsibility includes both workday and night/weekend on-call support as required to maintain high availability of the applications for various users.

Essential Job Functions (EJFs)

• Own all day-to-day application-…