2026510 Database Developer $215,000.00

$215,000 - $215,000/Yr

B4Corp - Reston, VA

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

11-50 employees

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The Database Engineer at B4Corp will be responsible for high-level database engineering and management tasks, including data design, schema definition, and database optimization. This role requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance and involves working closely with the API Services Team to maintain and enhance database performance, particularly in an AWS environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the high side DB Engineer / Administrator for the API Services Team
• Responsible for ongoing maintenance of existing DB (AWS RDS)
• Identify performance bottlenecks in current DB and implement fixes (short term and long term)
• Optimize all DB queries and updates within microservices and identify best solution for implementation (e.g., stored procedure)
• Define a migration path from the current database to the 'to be' database to optimize for workload encountered in production
• Coordinate with Low side team(s) to develop changes in the low side development and test environments and package them to be deployed to the high side environments
• Responsible for performing ETL development activities including parser development and deployment, data flow management, implementing data lifecycle policies, troubleshooting data access issues, and developing data models.

Requirements

• Experience applying expert domain knowledge of database management systems and SQL optimization
• Experience with Dynamo and SQL based DBs
• 5+ years' experience with Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, or other commercial database management system
• Extensive knowledge in writing and optimizing complex SQL statements and stored procedures
• Extensive experience developing extract, load, and transfer software operations for data sets in an AWS environment utilizing NiFi flows
• Experience negotiating complex scenarios and challenges and devising courses of action to resolve situations with predictable outcomes
• Experience leading critical objectives where decision making is of utmost concern to the outcome
• Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AWS/C2S services including RDS
• Demonstrated experience using Spring, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and NiFi.

Benefits

• Outstanding Salaries
• Full Vanguard 401k Plan with 100% employer matched contribution up to 6%
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance coverage
• Employee Referral Bonus of $3,000 per year for each referred employee
• Seven weeks of paid time off per year including federal holidays
• Flexible work schedule with comp time
• Free online training accounts for IT courses and certifications