
Big challenges need bold thinkers.
If you’re someone who sees problems as opportunities, you’ll thrive here. RESPEC is 100% employee-owned, which means we take ownership of every challenge. Here, your ideas drive real solutions. Since 1969, we’ve tackled complex challenges in energy transition, infrastructure resilience, digital transformation, and sustainability.
At RESPEC, you’ll work alongside clients to take on critical problems Depending on your expertise, you might design infrastructure in remote locations, develop renewable energy solutions for global projects, or apply data-driven technology to improve mining and water systems.
We bring deep technical knowledge, real-world experience, and a commitment to work that matters. If you're looking for a place where your contributions have real impact, you’ll fit right in.
We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters.
RESPEC is seeking an accomplished, hands-on Senior Database Developer to support a mission-critical statewide education data project for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and its Texas Student Data System (TSDS). In this position, you will serve as the primary database subject matter expert, taking direct ownership of architecting, optimizing, and maintaining complex database pipelines that process data across more than 1,200 public school districts. Working within an Agile-focused development lifecycle, you will optimize query performance, integrate complex JSON-based data structures within Oracle environments, and collaborate closely with cross-functional software engineering teams to guarantee data accuracy, high throughput, and system integrity.
Core Responsibilities
As a lead technical contributor on this engagement, your day-to-day focus will center on building and refining enterprise-grade relational database solutions:
Required Technical Experience
To qualify for this opportunity, candidates must clearly demonstrate the following baseline technical qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Work Model & Location
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

In a world where one superhero can handle almost any problem, our entire team of award-winning technology experts is on a mission to make your business better.
With extra vision to see solutions that others can’t and vast knowledge to bridge the gaps that others don’t, we’re transformers with the know-how to solve the world’s hardest problems. At RESPEC, we thrive on technology and making our clients successful. This is why we do what we do.
From the depths of a cavern to the heights of a volcano, from an antiquated computer system to a business in dire need of re-engineering, our technical and business experts find solutions for extreme situations... like the time we cleansed and migrated 100 million rows of legacy data or the time we protected Mt. Rushmore.
Know-How is Everything.
We use our resourcefulness and vast experience to solve problems. It’s called know-how. And when you have it, problems aren’t problems at all. Know-how defines the core of who we are. It is how our clients see us. Know-how speaks to ingenuity, aptitude, and skill—it is not merely knowledge; it is knowledge on how to get things done.
Imagine having access to a think tank with hundreds of diversely talented engineers, scientists, programmers, and developers under one roof—that’s RESPEC. Each team member is highly trained and skilled in understanding and applying the laws of a specific universe to solve any kind of problem. That’s why we have to talk about our team in terms of superheroes.