Database Architect (SME) Remote / Telecommute Jobs
Database Architect (SME) Remote / Telecommute Jobs
Posted 6 days ago
SENIORITY
Manager
About the role
- Lead enterprise database architecture and technical operations across assigned environments.
- Establish database design, configuration, administration, monitoring, security, and documentation standards.
- Translate mission, application, analytical, and warehouse requirements into database architecture decisions.
- Guide Microsoft SQL Server architecture, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and modernization.
- Oversee database performance monitoring, capacity planning, query optimization, indexing, and resource utilization.
- Resolve complex database availability, connectivity, integrity, concurrency, and performance issues.
- Design and review high-availability and disaster-recovery approaches aligned with Government requirements.
- Oversee backup strategies, restore procedures, recovery testing, and documented recovery readiness.
- Validate recovery point and recovery time objectives with Government stakeholders and technical teams.
- Coordinate database recovery and restoration during outages, incidents, exercises, and planned transitions.
- Establish database security practices covering access, privileged accounts, encryption, auditing, and configuration controls.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on findings, remediation, authorization evidence, and approved security changes.
- Guide database upgrades, migrations, platform refreshes, consolidation, and modernization initiatives.
- Assess proposed changes for effects on availability, performance, security, integrations, and downstream consumers.
- Review database schemas, data models, interfaces, and integration patterns for scalability and maintainability.
- Coordinate database dependencies with data warehouse, application, infrastructure, analytics, and AI teams.
- Review technical designs, implementation plans, test results, rollback procedures, and operational handoffs.
- Develop architecture diagrams, technical decision records, standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance.
- Mentor database administrators through technical coaching, design reviews, knowledge transfer, and development planning.
- Recommend improvements that strengthen database reliability, operational efficiency, recovery capability, and maintainability.
- Communicate database health, technical risks, modernization priorities, and recommended decisions to Government stakeholders and program leadership.
- Qualifications Required Qualifications The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, database management, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
- Experience with enterprise database architecture.
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
- Experience implementing or supporting database high availability.
- Experience with database backup, restoration, and recovery.
- Experience with database security.
- Experience planning or implementing database modernization.
- Ability to lead database operations and establish technical standards.
- Ability to oversee database performance, resolve complex technical issues, and guide database administrator development.
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