Senior Database Engineer (TS/SCI + Polygraph)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

PTO and holidays

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

J&T Business Consulting seeks a Senior Database Engineer (Level 3) with an active TS/SCI clearance and Polygraph for Fort Meade, MD. You will lead database architecture, dataflow engineering, and storage/retrieval across the full lifecycle, shaping scalable, secure information systems in a high-security environment.

You will direct relational and object-oriented structures, parsers, loading tools, and optimized data ingestion while balancing performance, retention, and security considerations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus at least 10 years of Database Engineering experience, OR 15 years without a degree.
• Leadership in database architecture, schema modeling, and dataflow optimization.
• Experience leading development of database parsers, loading tools, and complex queries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy relational and OO database structures within enterprise architectures.
• Develop and optimize custom database parsers, loading utilities, and data ingestion pipelines.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs across data volumes, distribution, latency, and security domains.
• Translate complex requirements into optimized database schemas and data structures.
• Author and maintain complex SQL queries, scripts, and data files.
• Oversee cloud-based database storage and retrieval implementations.
• Drive roadmaps for database administration, optimization, and capacity planning.

Skills

Database architecture

Schema modeling

Dataflow optimization

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

15 years of relevant Database Engineering experience without a degree

Job description

J&T Business Consulting seeks a Senior Database Engineer (Level 3) with an active TS/SCI clearance and Polygraph for Fort Meade, MD. You will lead database architecture, dataflow engineering, and storage/retrieval across the full lifecycle, shaping scalable, secure information systems in a high-security environment.

You will direct relational and object-oriented structures, parsers, loading tools, and optimized data ingestion while balancing performance, retention, and security considerations