Mission-Critical Database Architect (TS/SCI)

Quest Oracle Community; Tampa, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Defense Sector in Tampa, FL seeks a Senior Database Architect to design and maintain enterprise database architectures supporting mission applications and analytics. You will collaborate with government and contractor personnel to enable informed decision-making and mission success, requiring TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities include designing schemas and data models, ensuring performance and security, and guiding modernization from legacy systems to cloud or hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in database architecture, engineering, or related disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; substitutions allowed as permitted.
• Experience designing complex enterprise database architectures.
• Experience across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise database architectures for mission applications.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical designs ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Evaluate requirements to select relational, NoSQL, graph, or cloud-native technologies.
• Develop standards, data models, naming conventions, and specifications.
• Design schemas, indexing, partitioning, storage, and access patterns for workloads.
• Support high availability, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and continuity.
• Design secure architectures with encryption and IAM controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Review environments to identify limitations, debt, and risks.
• Develop modernization and migration strategies to cloud/hybrid platforms.

Skills

Database architectures

Data modeling

Cloud databases

Security architecture

Performance optimization

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Information Systems

Data Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MS SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Cassandra

Graph databases

Azure

AWS

RDS/Aurora

Job description

Leidos Defense Sector in Tampa, FL seeks a Senior Database Architect to design and maintain enterprise database architectures supporting mission applications and analytics. You will collaborate with government and contractor personnel to enable informed decision-making and mission success, requiring TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities include designing schemas and data models, ensuring performance and security, and guiding modernization from legacy systems to cloud or hybrid environments.