Database Engineer II — Mission-Critical Data & Cloud

Appian; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, vision plans

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Appian hires a Database Engineer to design, develop, and maintain a complex data architecture for DoW-focused initiatives. You will work with RDMS and NoSQL databases, migrate legacy data, and ensure high availability and performance for critical systems.

The role emphasizes building scalable data models, ETL pipelines, and CI/CD integration while aligning with security clearance and government standards. A competitive compensation package is offered along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field (required).
• 1+ years of professional data engineering experience in designing, planning, and implementing tables, views, stored procedures, and functions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop database architectures and data models to support contract requirements.
• Analyze legacy database structures for migrations and risks before moving workloads to the cloud.
• Convert legacy SQL constructs to target languages, rewrite logic for compatibility.
• Establish ETL to transform legacy data into new environment.
• Configure and monitor enterprise database clusters.
• Tune database objects and create indices for performance.
• Integrate database objects into CI/CD pipelines and source control.
• Develop data generation scripts for testing and validation.

Skills

RDBMS & NoSQL

SQL/MQL/CQL

Database architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Data modeling

Performance tuning

CI/CD integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering/IS/Math

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

RHEL8

Job description

Appian hires a Database Engineer to design, develop, and maintain a complex data architecture for DoW-focused initiatives. You will work with RDMS and NoSQL databases, migrate legacy data, and ensure high availability and performance for critical systems.

The role emphasizes building scalable data models, ETL pipelines, and CI/CD integration while aligning with security clearance and government standards. A competitive compensation package is offered along with comprehensive benefits.