Senior Database Developer

Skyward IT Solutions, LLC; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company laptop

Medical insurance

Job summary

Skyward IT Solutions, LLC is seeking a senior data professional to lead data governance, architecture, and cloud data integration for federal contracts. You will own the data framework, ensure quality and security, and guide analytics across the program. The role demands 8+ years of experience, a bachelor’s degree, strong SQL, and experience with AWS, Tableau, Python, and Java.

U.S. citizenship and Public Trust eligibility are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience required.
• Strong SQL skills with complex queries and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience building data frameworks and governance.
• Experience with AWS and cloud data services; security and access controls.
• Familiarity with reporting, automation, and data quality initiatives.
• Must be a U.S. citizen able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design a data management framework for client data systems.
• Build and protect a central data repository and enforce data integrity.
• Implement validation, cleansing, access controls, and disaster recovery plans.
• Automate data collection, transformation, and reporting pipelines.
• Maintain a living data dictionary and naming standards.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the government Contracting Officer and COR.
• Oversee the contract-wide data activities and the analytics team.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Data architecture

ETL

AWS

Reporting

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Python

Java

SQL Server

AWS

Job description

We are Skyward.That is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology. We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others. We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents. And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.We stand by our values, and we won’t compromise on any of them.

Integrity

We're conscientious, intentional, and empathetic. Our words and actions align. That's our character. Please don't ask us to play another part, we're poor actors.

Compassionate

If we may borrow a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: "No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." Because our team is thoughtful and supportive, caring deeply for each other, our clients, and our work, this comes naturally.

Inquisitive

We remain students by failing openly and turning lessons into solutions.

Unconventional

For us, life isn't what happens outside of work. Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.

Authentic

Made possible only because we embody the values listed above. We're relaxed and fun yet intensely curious and driven. Team members are placed with thought, care, and precision to ensure that Trust, Truth, and Transparency continue to represent our brand. Because of that, we continue Onward, Upward, and Skyward.

**This position is contingent on contract award**

What you'll do

• Be the human Rosetta Stone between raw data and real insight. Assess our client's current data systems and design a data management framework that actually makes sense.
• Build (and guard) a central data repository like it's Fort Knox, but friendlier.
• Whip messy data into shape with validation rules and automated cleansing. No rogue duplicates on your watch.
• Set up access controls so the right people see the right data, and only the right data. Least privilege, maximum peace of mind.
• Build backup and disaster-recovery plans so solid that "we lost the data" becomes a foreign phrase.
• Automate the boring stuff - data collection, transformation, and reporting pipelines that hum along without someone babysitting them.
• Keep a living, breathing data dictionary and enforce naming standards, so nobody's guessing what a field actually means ever again.
• Be THE point of contact for our government client's Contracting Officer and COR. The one name everyone knows to call.
• Keep a bird's-eye view of everything happening across the contract, including the work of the analysts on your team.
• Answer the call (literally) within 24 hours, every time. Because reliability is basically your love language.

What we'd like you to have

• A bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience.
• Serious database chops: architecture, development, and administration, not just "I know how to write a SELECT statement."
• Strong SQL skills. You write queries that are clean, fast, and a little bit beautiful: joins, CTEs, window functions, performance tuning, the works.
• A solid understanding of report development and automation. You'd rather build a report that runs itself than hit "refresh" every Monday morning.
• Hands-on experience developing data frameworks. You look at a pile of disconnected tables and think, "Oh, I can fix that."
• A general understanding of AWS. You know your way around the cloud well enough to never get lost in it.
• Experience building or improving a data governance framework (data quality, security, access control. The whole nine yards).
• Comfort being the face of a contract. You've been the go-to person a client trusts, not just the person quietly fixing things behind the scenes.
• A track record of staying cool under a deadline. Federal clients love a fast, calm response.
• A knack for turning "the data is broken" into an actual fix, calmly, before anyone panics.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance (non-negotiable for this one - the government's rules, not ours).

What would blow us away

• Prior experience supporting a federal statistical, data, or reporting program.
• Extra tools in your belt: Python, Java, SQL, and Tableau. Bonus points if you can build a dashboard people actually want to look at.
• AWS certification. Official proof that your head is in the cloud (in the best way).

What we offer you

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 15 days of paid leave
• 7 days of sick leave
• 2 days bereavement leave
• 11 paid Federal holidays
• Up to 40 hours for jury duty
• 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
• Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
• Company provided laptop
• $5,000 per year for professional development
• $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
• $2,000 referral bonus
• Life and disability insurance
• HSA and FSA
• Legal Shield and ID Shield
• Voluntary Benefits
• Opportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Who says government work can't be exciting!

$110,000 - $120,000 a year

At Skyward, we support flexible working hours and remote opportunities to help maintain a healthy work-life balance for all employees.

Offers of employment with Skyward are contingent upon acceptable results of a background investigation.

Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor.