Database Solutions Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Database Developer in Reston, VA to architect and deliver secure Oracle Database solutions supporting applications, analytics, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will design logical/physical data models; integrate relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data; and optimize performance while ensuring security and maintainability. Collaboration across engineering, cloud, and security teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, development, or data architecture.
• Experience architecting Oracle Database solutions with logical/physical design, performance tuning, security, and recovery.
• Experience managing geospatial intelligence data and designing spatial schemas, indexes, and services.
• Experience designing multi-model databases using relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data types.
• Experience enabling AI use cases in Oracle Database with vector data types, embeddings, RAG, or MCP integrations.
• Experience with SQL and PL/SQL, including schemas, packages, procedures, functions, views, and query optimization.
• Ability to assess source systems, develop migration strategies, validate data quality, and ensure performance.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize Oracle Database solutions for complex workloads.
• Design data models, schemas, indexes, views, and data access patterns for performance and security.
• Create multi-model solutions integrating relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data.
• Manage geospatial data including raster/vector formats and develop spatial schemas and queries.
• Enable AI use cases in Oracle DB using vector data types and embeddings.
• Assess source systems and define migration/conversion strategies; validate data quality.
• Support operations: tuning, monitoring, backup/recovery, security, and runbooks.
• Collaborate across teams to translate requirements into maintainable designs.

Skills

Oracle Database

Geospatial data

SQL/PLSQL

Data modeling

AI embeddings

Migration strategy

Security

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The Opportunity:

Data is only useful when it is trusted, accessible, and ready to support the mission. As a Database Developer, you’ll help design and deliver secure, high-performing Oracle Database solutions that support applications, analytics, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows. In this role, you’ll work across logical and physical data design, geospatial intelligence, multimodal data, and emerging AI capabilities. You’ll help integrate relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data while ensuring solutions remain reliable, maintainable, secure, and ready to support operational users. You’ll collaborate with application developers, AI specialists, data engineers, cloud architects, security professionals, and customer stakeholders to solve complex data challenges. If you’re excited about building database capabilities that make mission data more useful and actionable.

What You’ll Work On:

Architect, implement, and optimize Oracle Database solutions for complex enterprise and mission workloads. Design logical and physical data models, schemas, indexes, views, packages, and data access patterns that support performance, security, and maintainability. Design multi-model Oracle Database solutions integrating relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data types. Manage geospatial intelligence data, including raster and vector formats, and develop spatial schemas, indexes, queries, and services. Enable AI use cases in Oracle Database using vector data types, embeddings, RAG, and MCP integrations. Assess source systems, define migration and conversion strategies, and validate data quality, completeness, reconciliation, and performance. Support database operations, including performance tuning, monitoring, backup and recovery, security, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational runbooks. Collaborate with application, AI, data engineering, cloud, security, and customer teams to translate requirements into maintainable database designs.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, database development, or data architecture
• Experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing Oracle Database solutions, including logical and physical design, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, and operational support
• Experience managing geospatial intelligence data, including raster and vector formats, and designing spatial schemas, indexes, queries, and services
• Experience designing multi-modal database solutions using relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data types
• Experience enabling AI use cases in Oracle Database using vector data types, embeddings, RAG, or MCP integrations
• Experience with SQL and PL/SQL, including schemas, packages, procedures, functions, views, and query optimization
• Experience assessing source systems, developing migration and conversion strategies, validating data quality, and collaborating across technical and mission teams
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle Exadata, or OCI Autonomous AI Database Service on Exadata
• Experience creating RESTful APIs and integrating with Oracle API Gateway or similar API management capabilities
• Experience migrating Oracle Databases into OCI using Zero Downtime Migration, Data Pump, GoldenGate, or similar tools
• Experience migrating JSON data from MongoDB or similar document stores into Oracle Database
• Experience with Oracle Spatial and spatial analytics workflows
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, reliable, and observable database solutions in regulated or mission environments
• Knowledge of OCI, including database deployment, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, and security services
• Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

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Work Model

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