Athenix Solutions Group is looking to hire a Database Developer to support a large program in the Chantilly, VA area.
This opportunity will provide operations and maintenance (O&M) and database development for legacy databases for systems to include the enterprise API Gateway, EDW and new modern databases consistent with the Sponsor’s business data strategy. The Database Developer shall provide support for deployment packaging, system maintenance and troubleshooting to maintain sustainability and reliability of systems and applications. These mission critical systems must continue without interruption and meet approved timelines for new development activities.
Responsibilities:
- Use existing enterprise services rather than building single-purpose solutions.
- Ensure each new application or system enhancement meets agreed upon performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for system up-time, concurrent users, and system recovery.
- Monitor each application to provide status awareness and include a resolution plan for the application in the event of its failure.
- Comply with Agile Development Framework.
- Recommend changes to current applications and databases based on requirements.
- Recommend modernization options for data hosting, data transport, data cleansing, data exposure and data ingestion at an enterprise scale.
- Make recommendations for modernization with a focus on performance, security, and cost, with the flexibility to store and manage large volumes of disparate, enterprise datasets while identifying the authoritative dataset and reducing dataset duplication.
- Manage instances of cloud infrastructure services and multiple cloud servers.
- Manage enhancements and improvements to current data systems technology and processes, including data access authorizations against enterprise-approved user attributes and solutions with oversight.
- Create functional design specifications, architectures, and render support with other cloud project deliverables.
- Continuously evaluate program progress and evaluate incoming information to ensure the program is progressing on schedule.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagements, such as user requirements sessions and training.
- Define, analyze, track, review and categorizes technical and functional requirements.
- Support tasks requiring collecting, compiling, evaluating, and publishing information and statistical data included in documents, records, forms, reports, plans, policies and regulations.
- Interface with stakeholders to ensure user stories are accurately and properly documented.
- Provide frequent contact with customers, traceability within program documents, and the overall computing environment and architecture.
- Provide data architecture, analyst, and integration support to identify the enterprise data needs and design master ‘blueprints’, to include alignment to customer’s systems, data investments, business strategy for Sponsor consideration, and data access governance as directed by multiple functional data stewards.
- Participate in daily scrum meetings.
- Provide operations and maintenance of databases in the cloud infrastructure.
- Provide project management support to the Sponsor Software Development Lifecycle process.
Minimum Requirements:
- Active Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
- Demonstrated experience utilizing Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
- Demonstrated experience with Tableau and COGNOS for reporting presentation.
- Demonstrated experience developing and interfacing with Application Program Interfaces (APIs).
- Demonstrated experience performing testing and quality assurance of developed solutions within the existing Oracle data tier.
- Demonstrated experience developing, creating, and modifying data structure and data load routines for analytic use cases.
- Demonstrated experience working with relational data tiers including cleansing, transforming, and processing of structured data.
- Demonstrated experience developing and supporting applications using Java, JavaScript, and Python.
- Demonstrated experience working with views, triggers and Oracle PL and SQL.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Amazon Web Services environments, including RDS, S3, etc.
- Demonstrated experience working within an Agile project management model.
Highly Desired:
- Demonstrated experience as agile scrum master.
- Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services/Cloud Data Migration Services.
- Demonstrated experience with JIRA.
- Demonstrated experience with IMMUTA data policy.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with Sponsor staff, IT customers, and other technical and non-technical staff and contractors at all levels.
- Demonstrated experience with a variety of data repository types (i.e., relational, NoSQL, distributed processing framework, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience creating and interfacing with REST APIs.
Athenix Solutions Group, LLC and its companies Athenix Cyber and SIGINT, and Athenix Special Missions is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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For Missions That Cannot Fail
Athenix Solutions Group is focused exclusively on serving the Intelligence Community, DoD Cyber, Special Operations, and others who operate at the edge. By blending deep domain experience, mission understanding, innovative technology, precise analytics, and specialized subject-matter expertise, we help our customers meet their most challenging and dynamic mission requirements.
Whether it’s Systems & Software Development, Intelligence & Cyber Operations, or Special Mission & Force Readiness, our total lifecycle solutions create a decisive advantage against current and future adversaries. These integrated capabilities also maximize mission performance, improve security, increase readiness, and reduce costs.
A middle-tier company, Athenix is large enough to offer depth and breadth of capabilities yet unbound by bureaucratic processes that hamstring mega organizations. As a middleweight, we have the speed, know-how, and flexibility to deliver the innovative and agile solutions needed to support tip-of-the-spear missions.
Our can-do culture and mission-first attitude are at the heart of everything we do. We understand that our work impacts the safety and security of the nation and the world, and we welcome the responsibility of working on missions that cannot fail
