Senior Database Engineer — TS/SCI w/ Poly (Cloud & On-Prem)

Zohorecruit; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

PTO and Holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan with Company0匹

Tuition Reimbursement for education

Job summary

Zohorecruit seeks a Database Engineer (Level 2) with active TS/SCI clearance to design and optimize large-scale databases at Fort Meade, MD. You’ll develop relational and OO schemas, build parsing tools, and balance data volumes, latency, and security across cloud/on‑prem environments.

Responsibilities span the full lifecycle from requirements to IOC, including data modeling, schema design, and performance tuning to support enterprise information retrieval and secure data flows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus at least 5 years of Database Engineering experience on programs of similar scope and complexity, OR 10 years of relevant Database Engineering experience without a degree.
• Database Design & Development: Proven track record in schema architecture, data modeling, information storage/retrieval, and dataflow optimization.
• Software & Scripting: Demonstrated capability developing database parsing/loading software, complex SQL queries, and automated data manipulation scripts.
• Lifecycle Experience: Hands-on experience translating system requirements into database architectures from inception through IOC.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy relational and Object-Oriented databases that integrate into enterprise architectures.
• Develop custom database parser tools, data ingestion scripts, and automated loading software.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs between data volumes, users, distribution, query times, data retention, and security.
• Translate operational requirements into optimized database schemas, tables, views, and data pipelines.
• Author, optimize, and maintain ad-hoc queries, scripts, macros, and master data files.
• Support data storage, ODBC connectivity, and information retrieval implementations using cloud and on-premises methods.

Skills

Database Design

Data Modeling

SQL & Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

10 years of relevant Database Engineering experience without a degree

Tools

ODBC connectivity

Job description

Zohorecruit seeks a Database Engineer (Level 2) with active TS/SCI clearance to design and optimize large-scale databases at Fort Meade, MD. You’ll develop relational and OO schemas, build parsing tools, and balance data volumes, latency, and security across cloud/on‑prem environments.

Responsibilities span the full lifecycle from requirements to IOC, including data modeling, schema design, and performance tuning to support enterprise information retrieval and secure data flows.