Senior Oracle Database Engineer (Development & Administration)

Stratyx; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratyx seeks a Senior Oracle Database Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to lead hands-on SQL/PL/SQL development and production troubleshooting within enterprise-scale Oracle databases.

Responsibilities include optimizing performance, maintaining data feeds, and collaborating with DBAs, applications, and infrastructure teams to ensure data quality and reliability across NiFi, AWS, and API interfaces.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise Oracle DB development and support.
• Expertise in Oracle SQL/PL/SQL with advanced features.
• Experience debugging complex SQL/PL/SQL in multi-stage environments.
• Strong data integration and data-feed troubleshooting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve complex SQL/PL/SQL and production issues.
• Rewrite and optimize existing scripts and packages.
• Maintain data feeds involving NiFi, AWS endpoints, and files.
• Coordinate resolution with DBAs, infra, and applications teams.

Skills

Oracle SQL

PL/SQL Development

Performance tuning

Data integration

NiFi/AWS data flows

Production support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Oracle RAC

RMAN

Data Guard

Job description

# Senior Oracle Database Engineer (Development & Administration)* Annapolis Junction, MD* Full-time* just now## About this roleWe are seeking a Senior Oracle Database Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise-scale Oracle database applications. This position is primarily focused on hands-on SQL and PL/SQL development, production debugging, script remediation, ad hoc data analysis, and the maintenance of data feeds and integration endpoints.The ideal candidate has expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, along with complementary database administration skills that support effective production troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, recovery, and collaboration with DBA and infrastructure teams.Required Skills• 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database, including Oracle 10g through current versions.• Advanced expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, including packages, procedures, functions, triggers, views, materialized views, dynamic SQL, collections, bulk processing, exception handling, and database APIs.• Extensive experience debugging and troubleshooting complex SQL and PL/SQL code in development, test, and production environments.• Demonstrated ability to:o Analyze existing database code and business logic.o Identify defects, data issues, and performance bottlenecks.o Rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing scripts.o Develop and maintain operational and production-support scripts.o Create ad hoc queries for data analysis, reporting, reconciliation, validation, and issue resolution.• Strong experience maintaining and supporting data feeds and system integrations, including:o Apache NiFi data flows and endpoints.o AWS services, interfaces, and endpoints.o APIs and service-based integrations.o File-based data transfers and batch interfaces.o Upstream and downstream application dependencies.o Data validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and feed monitoring.• Experience diagnosing data-feed and integration failures by tracing issues across database objects, PL/SQL processes, NiFi flows, AWS endpoints, files, APIs, and dependent systems.• Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning, including execution-plan analysis, optimizer statistics, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, locking, concurrency, and wait-event analysis.• Experience using Oracle diagnostic and performance tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.• Experience supporting high-volume data processing, batch jobs, ETL workflows, data conversion, data migration, and data-reconciliation processes.• Working knowledge of database application design, data modeling, schema development, and database object management sufficient to maintain and enhance scalable, reliable database solutions.• Experience deploying SQL, PL/SQL, schema, and configuration changes through structured development, testing, validation, and production-release processes.• Familiarity with source control, code review, release documentation, rollback planning, and automated or repeatable database deployment practices.• Complementary Oracle database administration experience, including working knowledge of:o Oracle RAC.o RMAN backup and recovery.o Oracle Data Guard.o Database security, roles, privileges, and auditing.o Tablespaces, storage, sessions, locks, and database-object management.o Production monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and recovery procedures.Primary Responsibilities• Debug and resolve complex SQL, PL/SQL, data, and production-processing issues.• Review, rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing SQL and PL/SQL scripts.• Develop ad hoc queries and scripts to support investigations, reporting, reconciliation, data correction, and operational requests.• Maintain and enhance PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, and database interfaces.• Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain data feeds involving Oracle, Apache NiFi, AWS endpoints, APIs, files, and connected applications.• Investigate failed or incomplete data flows and coordinate resolution across database, integration, application, and infrastructure teams.• Perform data validation and root-cause analysis to identify discrepancies between source and target systems.• Support application releases, database deployments, production incidents, and post-deployment validation.• Tune SQL and PL/SQL workloads to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.• Partner with Oracle DBAs on database configuration, RAC, recovery, Data Guard, security, performance, and environment-related issues.• Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, deployment instructions, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.Qualifications:• 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database.• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.• Experience with Oracle Exadata, Database Vault, Label Security, and large-scale data migration is highly desirable.• Ability to work effectively with developers, database administrators, application owners, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and upstream and downstream integration partners.• Must be an independent, analytical, and detail-oriented contributor with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage production issues and competing priorities.• TS/SCI w/ FSP required.