Database Architect

Description & Requirements

The Database Architect is responsible for designing, creating and managing the structure and strategy for the organization's databases to ensure they are efficient, scalable and secure.

This is a remote position.

Candidates must currently hold an active IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI) clearance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide insight into the changing database storage, utilization, life-cycle management, and privacy requirements for the company's products to ensure they are aligned with the company's overall technical vision.

- Work strategically with the Development Team and Management to design and implement industry leading solutions.
- Lead and participate in internal meetings to align and collaborate with Developers, communicate vision and objectives, provide progress reports, explain recommendations, and troubleshoot issues.
- Ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness, leveraging existing technologies when possible.
- Own responsibility for generating technical specifications to support business requirements while recommending and implementing the best technology solutions to meet those requirements.
- Define monitoring requirements for databases and lead efforts for continual improvements and proactive monitoring.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and model databases, creating blueprints (relational, NoSQL, cloud-based systems, etc.) that meet business requirements for scalability, performance and data consistency.

- Oversee construction of new databases, logical and physical, to support enterprise applications and data initiatives; ensure full and appropriate integration with existing systems, to include potentially writing code to create the architecture.

- Design and implement systems for data backup, recovery and security to prevent data loss and ensure compliance.

- Monitor database performance and make modifications to optimize efficiency (i.e.

tuning queries)

- Address errors and inefficiencies in the database structure, perform needed maintenance and upgrades, support production incidents and outages as needed.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements (required skills that align with contract LCAT, verifiable, and measurable):

- Expertise designing, implementing and managing enterprise database systems for federal agencies

- Working experience with designing and optimizing database systems and architecture

- Excellent analytical skills, with strong attention to detail

- Demonstrated high commitment to quality

- Strong collaboration skills and desire to work in a highly collaborative environment

- Ability to independently learn new tools and new business domains

Minimum Education requirement:

- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university r...