Database Architect SME

Digiflight - Columbia, MD

Full-time - Senior

Columbia, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Database Architect will join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a nationally significant program. Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test and production environments. A Database Architect will provide support to maintain and add new capabilities to a complex system with exacting interface, performance, and security requirements. The selected candidate will provide database-engineering expertise in the following areas: architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design/implementation, testing, and documentation for the system. She/he will analyze user requirements, system architecture, and system requirements specifications, and will provide database-engineering expertise and develop system architecture and system design documentation. She/he will support the development of system configuration documentation, including designs for capacity and performance planning, and will perform engineering activities, to include risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns. The selected candidate will provide solutions to challenging technical problems in distributed data replication, concurrent data access, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Designs and builds relational databases and performs data access analysis design, and archive/recovery design and implementation
• Develops strategies for data acquisitions, archive recovery, and implementation of a database
• Translates business needs into long-term architecture solutions
• Develops data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms, and integrating systems
• Reviews and develops object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access
• Ensures security of all information and computer systems and digital data
• Ensures adherence to government regulations and guidelines for technological systems and safeguarding of data
• Confirms architecture capability and flexibility to support high availability web applications by developing analytical models and completing validation tests
• Defines infrastructure for design and integration of internet computing systems by analyzing information requirements, studying business operations and user-interface requirements, and directing development of physical database

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Database Architect to include tasks such as data migration, data replication, user administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, issue investigation, issue resolution, and general administration
• Extensive experience with databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational databases that includes Netezza, Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL and RDF
• Must have a SAFe 5.1 SAFe Architect (ARCH) certifications
• Candidate must be a US Citizen
• Candidate must have a BS with 20 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters with 15 years of prior relevant experience

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee referral program
• Professional development
• 11 paid holidays