Database Engineer III with Security Clearance

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 171,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense in Fort Meade, Maryland, seeks a Database Engineer III to design, develop, and maintain enterprise database solutions supporting automated security evaluation and authorization processes.

You will lead data architecture across the full lifecycle, ensure data integrity, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet evolving security and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree plus significant professional experience is required.
• Experience with database-driven architectures and enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead database design, development, implementation, data storage and retrieval across complex environments.
• Architect and optimize database structures to align with system architecture and security requirements.
• Develop scalable database schemas and data transformation processes.
• Oversee full database development lifecycle from inception to completion.

Skills

Database design

System optimization

Data modeling

Cloud-based databases

SQL/NoSQL

Data integrity

Python

REST endpoints

Agile environment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MongoDB

Docker

AWS

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description SALARY RANGE $171,000 - $228,000/year.

Duties

As a successful candidate for the Database Engineer III role, you will support the Secure the Enterprise initiative by developing capabilities that transition the organization from manual system security evaluation and authorization processes to a modern, automated model, designing and maintaining database solutions that enable streamlined processes, continuous monitoring, and real-time assessment, supporting enterprise-wide data collection across the full lifecycle of a project, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, optimize performance, and align database architectures with evolving security and compliance requirements.

Required Skills

Required Skills SKILLS * Design and develop enterprise-level systems, applications, and solutions supporting cyber systems and networks, with a focus on database-driven architectures

• Lead and support database design, development, implementation, data storage and retrieval, data flow, and analysis activities across complex environments
• Architect and optimize database structures to align with overall system architecture, balancing data volume, user load, distribution, performance, retention, and security requirements
• Translate complex requirements into scalable database schemas through the development of ad hoc queries, scripts, macros, and data transformation processes
• Lead development of databases, database parser software, and data loading solutions, ensuring efficient ingestion and processing of large datasets
• Direct and implement cloud-based database solutions utilizing queries, tables, and Open Database Connectivity for enterprise data systems
• Develop and implement new workflows to replace legacy processes, while supporting break/fix activities and system updates
• Support and lead system improvement initiatives, including optimization, maintenance, and performance tuning efforts
• Define and develop short- and long-term requirements for database administration and design across business and IT domains
• Oversee the full database development lifecycle from project inception through completion, ensuring requirements are organized, fulfilled, and aligned with mission objectives

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree plus Ten (10) years of professional experience is acceptable. Fifteen (15) years of relevant experience are acceptable if the candidate does not possess a degree.

Additional Requirements

• Additional Requirements: * Database experience using MongoDB, including deployment and management of the database itself
• Debugging of optimization issues

Desired Skills

• Scaling Desired Skills * Python
• Django or Flask
• REST endpoint development
• Microservice model
• Swagger
• AWS C2S or other cloud experience
• Docker
• Visual Studio Code or similar IDEs
• JSON and/or XML serialization
• Jira
• Confluence
• Git version control
• Experience working in an Agile environment