Database Engineer

Evans & Chambers; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm supporting national defense is looking for a Database Engineer in Dayton, OH. The role involves maintaining and enhancing database systems, ensuring compliance with security requirements, and directly supporting intelligence operations. Candidates should have significant experience in database management and a strong educational background in IT or related fields. This position requires active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience in database design, development, and administration.
• Strong analytical and prioritization skills.
• Must have active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain applications and services as part of a mission-focused team.
• Develop and enhance database structures to support system architecture.
• Translate business requirements into database design and functionality.
• Participate in providing training to support applications.

Skills

Oracle

SQL Server

SYBASE

Cloud methodologies

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Title

Database Engineer

ID

10000229

Department

Information Technology

Evans & Chambers Technology is seeking a highly motivated Database Engineer to join our team! Evans & Chambers partners with the US national defense community to create fully integrated, resilient, and innovative digital solutions that enable them to make smart decisions in real-time. We work with our customers on everything from conquering their data to improving and safeguarding IT infrastructure. Our ultimate goal is to enhance our nation's ability to identify, address, and act – no matter what challenges arise.

Location: Dayton, OH (onsite)

Clearance: Required to have active TS/SCI with CI Poly

Job Overview:

The Database Engineer will join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology. Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands. The Database Engineer leads development of databases, database parser software, and database loading software; leads development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development; develops requirement recommendations from a project’s inception to its conclusion for a particular Business and IT subject matter area (i.e., simple to complex systems); directs the overall database structure that fits into the overall architecture of the system under development and has to make trades among data volumes, number of users, logical and physical distribution, response times, retention rules, security and domain controls. Direct fulfillment of requirements from a project’s inception to it conclusion, directs organization of requirements and data into a usable database schema by directing development of ad hoc queries, scripts, macros, updates to existing queries; direct the development of complex systems using queries, tables, Open Database Connectivity and database storage and retrieval using Cloud methodologies.

Essential Duties:

• Provides technical expertise for database design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow and analysis to include using Oracle, SQL Server, SYBASE, and other DBMS Database and Applications
• Develops relational and/or Object-Oriented databases, database parser software, and database loading software
• Projects long-range requirements for database administration and design
• Responsible for developing a database structure that fits into the overall architecture of the system under development and has to make trades among data volumes, number of users, logical and physical distribution, response times, retention rules, security and domain controls
• The DBE works primarily at the front end of the lifecycle-requirements through system acceptance testing and Initial Operational Capability (IOC)
• Develops requirements from a project’s inception to its conclusion for a particular business and IT subject matter area (i.e., simple to complex systems)
• Assist with recommendations for, and analysis and evaluation of systems improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance efforts
• Participates in developing and delivering training as requested by the government to support applications
• Translates a set of requirements and data into a usable document by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts, and macros; updates existing queries, creates new ones to manipulate data into a master file; and builds complex systems using queries, tables, Open Database Connectivity and database storage and retrieval using Cloud methodologies

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Security clearance status of TS/SCI with a CI polygraph
• Must be DoD 8570 compliant at IA Technical (IAT)/IA Management (IAM) Level 2
• Have experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA Risk Management Framework, understanding of Oracle and/or CENTOS based architecture

Preferred Education, Experience, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, or information management and eight years of comparable work experience.
• Desired skills include up to ten or more years of program/application operations experience.
• Prefer candidates who have experience in the Intelligence Community.
• Candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork and conflict management skills.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Diploma/GED plus 12 years of experience
• Associates Degree plus 10 years of experience
• Bachelors’ Degree plus 8 years of experience
• Masters’ Degree plus 6 years of experience
• PhD plus 4 years of experience

All employment opportunities are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status or any other basis protected by law.

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