Senior PostgreSQL Architect & DBA — Federal, Cloud & Security

Tech Consulting; Maryland; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Consulting in Woodlawn, MD, seeks a senior Database Administrator/Architect to design, secure, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL databases for a high‑impact federal program. You will ensure data integrity, availability, and performance across nationwide operations, with on-site work five days a week.

The role requires deep PostgreSQL expertise, extensive SQL and data modeling skills, and hands-on experience with AWS RDS, IAM, encryption, and DR strategies to meet federal standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a Database Administrator/Architect.
• Master’s + 5 years, Bachelor’s + 7 years, or 13+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Skilled in PostgreSQL database management, data modeling, normalization, and schema design.
• Advanced SQL experience for complex analysis, transformation, and reporting.
• Strong background in database architecture, configuration, installation, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with AWS RDS PostgreSQL or other cloud-based PostgreSQL platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, secure, monitor, and optimize PostgreSQL databases for high availability and peak performance.
• Conduct ongoing database health checks, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Oversee backup, recovery, installation, configuration, and patching of database servers.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries for analysis, transformation, and reporting.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance database solutions.
• Integrate PostgreSQL environments with AWS services including Lambda, S3, EC2, and Glue.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Data Modeling

SQL

AWS

RDS

High Availability

Security

Education

Master’s + 5 years

Bachelor’s + 7 years

13+ years in lieu of degree

Tools

Splunk

AWS IAM

Job description

Tech Consulting in Woodlawn, MD, seeks a senior Database Administrator/Architect to design, secure, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL databases for a high‑impact federal program. You will ensure data integrity, availability, and performance across nationwide operations, with on-site work five days a week.

The role requires deep PostgreSQL expertise, extensive SQL and data modeling skills, and hands-on experience with AWS RDS, IAM, encryption, and DR strategies to meet federal standards.