Senior Database Engineer – TS/SCI Poly

J T; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

401(k) with Company Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

J T seeks a senior Database Engineer (Level 3) to lead database architecture, dataflow engineering, and enterprise data storage at Fort Meade, MD. You will direct lifecycle activities from requirements to IOC, guiding relational and object-oriented database design, parsers, and loading tools.

You will drive architectural trade-offs across data scale, latency, and security domains, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus 10+ years of DB engineering experience, or 15 years without a degree.
• Experience leading database architecture design and schema modeling.
• Proven capability in developing custom database parsers and data loading tools.

Responsibilities

• Direct and lead design, development, and deployment of relational and Object-Oriented database structures.
• Oversee development and optimization of custom database parsers, loading utilities, and data ingestion pipelines.
• Lead architectural trade-off evaluations across data volumes, concurrency, distribution, latency, retention, and security domains.
• Translate complex requirements into optimized database schemas, tables, views, and data structures.
• Oversee writing and maintenance of complex SQL queries, scripts, and data files.
• Direct cloud-based database storage and retrieval implementations using distributed methodologies.
• Establish and drive short- and long-term technical roadmaps for database administration and capacity planning.

Skills

Database architecture

Leadership

SQL queries

Dataflow engineering

Security domain controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

15 years of relevant DB engineering experience without a degree

Tools

ODBC

Relational & OO databases

Job description

J T seeks a senior Database Engineer (Level 3) to lead database architecture, dataflow engineering, and enterprise data storage at Fort Meade, MD. You will direct lifecycle activities from requirements to IOC, guiding relational and object-oriented database design, parsers, and loading tools.

You will drive architectural trade-offs across data scale, latency, and security domains, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions.