Senior Database Engineer
Description

Choisys Technology, Inc. is an ISO 9001, 20000, and 27001 certified and VA certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Information Technology services provider located outside our nation's capital and in the epicenter of the Government IT industry. Choisys is an information technology infrastructure services provider with offerings in: Systems Engineering, Network Infrastructure Engineering, Video Teleconference Solutions Engineering and Program Management. Our proficiencies are Medical IT Services, Education/Training IT Services and Government IT Services.


Choisys Technology is seeking multiple candidates for a Senior Database Engineer in Herndon, VA. The position requires a candidate to have an active TS/SCI Clearance with Current CI polygraph. 


  • Ensures the successful implementation and day-to-day operation of database systems supporting critical Agency systems. 
  • Designs, models, documents, and guides the logical and conceptual relationship of data and database changes for complex applications. 
  • Analyzes needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems, and develops technical, structural, and organizational specifications. 
  • May create standards and/or do modeling to monitor and enhance capacity and performance. 
  • Communicates with technical, applications, and operational staff, in order to design an optimal database architecture (performance, accessibility, backup, and recovery plan). 
  • Analyzes and makes recommendations for improvements to existing software regarding database performance, stability, usability and scalability. 
  • Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models and creates physical data models from logical data models. 
  • Designs database servers and interfaces to improve database and application performance. 
  • Supports the development effort by authoring stored procedures, functions, views and check constraints.
Requirements
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Active TS with eligibility and ability to obtain SCI and ability to pass a CI polygraph
  • Experience in applying data modeling principles/methods including conceptual, logical & physical data models
  • Relational database experience
  • 2+ years experience with AWS technologies including PostgresSQL and EC2
  • ETL experience
  • Experience with integrating multiple data feeds into a consolidated data source for access by users via UI and by systems, e.g., via API
  • Experience with ER Studio Expertise or other similar modeling tools
  • GraphQL experience 


Choisys Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. The candidate must have the ability to sit for long periods of time, ability to discern colors, ability to read and monitor a computer screen for an extended period.


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