Remote Oracle DBA — Production-Grade Data Migrations

Bixal; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

401K with matching incentive

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Company provided short-term disability

Commuter benefits

PTO

11 Paid holidays

Job summary

Bixal is seeking a Database Administrator to manage the data behind a federal platform that supports governmentwide regulatory planning and review. You will keep the existing Oracle database secure, performant, and reliable, and you will lead the move of decades of regulatory data to the new platform.

This role involves mapping legacy data to new models, validating migrations, and preserving historical records and public references.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a database administrator or database engineer supporting production systems.
• Hands-on Oracle Enterprise database administration experience, including backup and recovery, patching, performance tuning, and security configuration.
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills.
• Experience leading or executing large-scale data migrations from a legacy database to a new platform, including data mapping, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience with data modeling and designing schemas for new applications.
• Experience with ETL or data migration tooling and scripting (such as Python, shell, or similar).
• Experience working in Linux server environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred).
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical decisions and explain data issues to non-technical stakeholders.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination in support of a federal government contract.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and tune the production Oracle Enterprise database, ensuring availability, performance, and integrity across all environments.
• Manage backups, recovery, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning, and support continuity of operations and disaster recovery testing.
• Implement and maintain database security controls, including access management, auditing, and encryption, and remediate database vulnerabilities within contractual timelines.
• Support defect resolution, performance troubleshooting, and data requests that involve the database.
• Develop and maintain the Data Migration Plan for moving legacy data to the new platform.
• Map legacy data structures to new target data models, documenting transformations, assumptions, and data quality issues.
• Build, test, and run repeatable migration and ETL processes, including validation and reconciliation against source systems.
• Plan migration timing, rollback procedures, and acceptance criteria for each release.
• Preserve historical records, legacy identifiers, and public references, and support archive or read-only access to historical data where needed.
• Contribute to data model design, indexing, and query optimization for the new platform.
• Support integration, decommissioning, and records retention planning as legacy capabilities are retired.
• Maintain database documentation, data dictionaries, and runbooks.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, estimation, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform.

Skills

SQL

PL/SQL

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

Oracle Enterprise Database

Python

Shell scripting

Red Hat Linux

PostgreSQL

Job description

Bixal is seeking a Database Administrator to manage the data behind a federal platform that supports governmentwide regulatory planning and review. You will keep the existing Oracle database secure, performant, and reliable, and you will lead the move of decades of regulatory data to the new platform.

This role involves mapping legacy data to new models, validating migrations, and preserving historical records and public references.