Database Engineer
SOUTH COLLEGE · KNOXVILLE, TN
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Jul 9, 2026
KNOXVILLE, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A database engineering role at a multi-campus higher education institution, focused on designing and maintaining a data warehouse, building ETL/ELT pipelines, and optimizing database performance across administrative and academic systems. The position also covers data security and compliance (including FERPA), integration between platforms such as SIS, LMS, and CRM, and collaboration with reporting and institutional research teams. Suited to someone with 3–5 years of hands-on database or data architecture experience.
Mid level · 3+ years · Knoxville, TN · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1 people in the Knoxville, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1–3
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $103,313 (middle half $75,055–$137,100).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role title is 'Database Engineer (DBA)' but the responsibilities span both database architecture/design (data warehouse schemas, ETL pipelines, MDM) and traditional DBA operations (maintenance, security, performance tuning), making it a genuine hybrid. 15-1243 Database Architects was chosen as primary given the emphasis on design, build, and warehouse architecture; 15-1242 Database Administrators is a close runner-up.
SQL, Python, and Scala are listed together as a single 'proficiency in programming languages such as…' requirement; SQL is emitted as the primary with Python and Scala as alternatives. Python also appears separately in the context of statistical/visualization libraries under the same requirements block.
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka) are listed in the same required-experience bullet. Cloud is treated as a hard gate with AWS as primary and Azure/GCP as alternatives. Hadoop/Spark/Kafka are listed as 'big data technologies (e.g., …)' — the 'e.g.' signals examples rather than specific gates, so they are marked preferred.
Tableau/Power BI and R/Python libraries appear in a single bullet framed as 'familiarity with… and statistical analysis tools (e.g., …)' — the 'familiarity with' framing demotes these to preferred.
Education sector experience is explicitly called out as 'a plus' under Preferred and is omitted as it names no concrete technology.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
South College is headquartered in Knoxville, TN; the posting does not specify a campus location, so Knoxville is used as the primary CBSA.
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