[Hiring] Senior Hibernate/JPA ORM Engineer @Industrial Electric Manufacturing

Role Description

The Senior Hibernate/JPA ORM Engineer is responsible for architecting, managing, optimizing, and ensuring the performance and reliability of the enterprise persistence layer supporting multiple Java-based applications. This role is critical to enabling scalable, secure, data-driven systems by:

• Designing efficient ORM strategies
• Optimizing queries
• Enhancing transaction handling
• Collaborating with development teams to ensure high-performing integrations with backend databases

The engineer will oversee ORM configuration, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, enforce data integrity, and support modernization initiatives across both on-premise and cloud-based environments.

This role offers an exciting opportunity within an innovative, growing company with a backlog extending more than three years.

Key Responsibilities

• ORM Architecture & Persistence Management
  • Design, configure, and maintain Hibernate/JPA persistence layers across multiple environments, including cloud-hosted databases.
  • Develop and optimize entity models, relationships, fetch strategies, and schema mappings aligned with application and business requirements.
  • Integrate Java persistence with Infor SyteLine V10.x, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and related enterprise systems.
  • Establish best practices for ORM usage, including naming standards, caching strategies, and transaction handling.
• Performance Tuning & Optimization
  • Monitor and optimize persistence performance, reducing database load and improving application responsiveness.
  • Analyze SQL generated by Hibernate and enhance performance through strategic indexing, batching, lazy/eager loading optimization, and query tuning.
  • Identify and resolve N+1 issues, excessive joins, inefficient fetch plans, and transaction bottlenecks.
  • Use Hibernate statistics, profiling tools, and database monitoring utilities to drive continuous improvement.
• Caching, Transactions & Reliability
  • Design robust transaction management strategies, supporting distributed transactions where required.
  • Ensure data consistency and reliability across high-availability architectures.
  • Collaborate on application-level backup and recovery strategies related to data access layers.
• Security & Compliance
  • Enforce secure coding and ORM best practices to protect sensitive data.
  • Ensure adherence to data governance, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
  • Work with the security team to identify vulnerabilities within application-layer data access implementations.
• Scalability & Capacity Planning
  • Evaluate and optimize ORM configurations and database interactions to support business growth.
  • Participate in planning for infrastructure scaling, including cloud migrations and performance load testing.
  • Enhance storage utilization and query throughput across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Troubleshooting & Issue Resolution
  • Diagnose and resolve application-level data access issues, including slow queries, deadlocks, locking, concurrency challenges, and transactional anomalies.
  • Provide on-call support for critical incidents involving persistence-layer failures or performance degradation.
  • Ensure rapid resolution and minimal downtime through an established escalation process.
• Collaboration & Documentation
  • Work closely with Java development teams to support deployments, new features, major refactoring efforts, and platform upgrades.
  • Provide guidance on JPA/Hibernate best practices, query writing, and data-access patterns.
  • Lead complex ORM projects ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for ORM architecture, configuration standards, optimization techniques, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Miscellaneous Responsibilities
  • Mentor and support team members in Hibernate, JPA, and persistence-layer best practices.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
• Supervision of Personnel
  • None.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience working with Hibernate/JPA in enterprise Java applications, including 3+ years in a senior or lead role.
• Expert-level understanding of ORM design, entity modeling, caching, and SQL generation.
• Proven experience optimizing ORM performance, including fetch strategies, batching, indexing, and query tuning.
• Strong familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL Server, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server) and how Java applications interact with them.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with consistent on-time delivery.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience integrating Java applications with enterprise systems, including ERP solutions like Infor SyteLine V10.x and Salesforce Sales Cloud.
• Certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE, Spring Professional Certification, or cloud database certifications.
• Experience with Infor SyteLine V9.00.30 or V10.x.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases or hybrid persistence architectures.
• Experience with enterprise backup tools such as Cohesity DataProtect.

Location

• The position is fully remote with minimal travel required to IEM facilities or industry conferences.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and long-term success.

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