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Hawai’i Conservation Alliance & Foundation; Honolulu, Northern (HI, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Hawai’i Conservation Alliance & Foundation is seeking a technical lead and project manager for its enterprise data infrastructure. You will architect, optimize, and maintain an Oracle-based EDMS, establishing data governance standards and guiding cross-disciplinary teams.

Join a federal research partnership with CIMAR and NOAA, working to safeguard Pacific marine species while delivering scalable data workflows and governance across a large scientific program.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of professional experience in relational database design, support, and scripting.
• 1–3 years of project management or technical oversight experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead and project manager for enterprise database infrastructure.
• Architect, optimize, and maintain the Oracle-based Enterprise Data Management System (EDMS).
• Establish data governance standards and lead technical workflows across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Database design

SQL scripting

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle

Job description

Join Our Data Team: Protecting Pacific Marine Species with Code & Science!

Aloha! Do you want to use your software development and database engineering skills to safeguard endangered Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, and cetaceans across the Pacific Islands? Does building offline-first web apps or architecting enterprise database pipelines appeal to you?

The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research ( CIMAR ) at the University of Hawaiʻi, in partnership with the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), is recruiting for following position.

The Role: Serve as the technical lead and project manager for our enterprise database infrastructure. You will architect, optimize, and maintain our Oracle-based Enterprise Data Management System (EDMS), establish data governance standards, and lead technical project workflows across multidisciplinary scientific teams.

• Suggested Experience: 5–7 years of professional experience in relational database design/support and scripting, including 1–3 years of project management/technical oversight experience.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Salary: $6,300-8,000/mo., commensurate with experience

Why Join Us?

Your code directly supports NOAA's population assessment, monitoring, and recovery programs for protected species. Work alongside world-class marine biologists, quantitative ecologists, and software engineers in a modern federal research facility. Opportunities may exist to support shipboard data operations aboard NOAA oceanographic research vessels!

General Requirements

• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident Alien and able to pass a standard federal background check (U.S. Dept. of Commerce security clearance).