Database Architect
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Database Architect designing and optimizing enterprise database environments for the Department of Health and Human Services. Ensuring databases are secure and scalable with high-volume transaction support.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain enterprise database architecture supporting HRIT and HCM enterprise systems.
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical database models aligned with enterprise architecture and data standards.
- Define and enforce database design standards, naming conventions, and schema governance practices.
- Architect scalable and high-performance database platforms capable of supporting enterprise HR operations.
- Design strategies for database indexing, partitioning, query optimization, and workload management.
- Architect high availability and fault-tolerant database environments.
- Develop backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical systems.
- Monitor and optimize database performance to support high-volume transactional workloads.
- Architect and support data integration strategies across enterprise systems, APIs, and service platforms.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications follow database architecture and performance best practices.
- Support data migration efforts, including transformation, validation, and testing strategies.
- Design database solutions that enable enterprise reporting, analytics, and operational data exchange.
- Implement database security architectures aligned with federal cybersecurity requirements.
- Ensure compliance with NIST security standards, federal records management policies, and accessibility requirements (Section 508).
- Define data protection mechanisms including encryption, role-based access control, and auditing capabilities.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and system design discussions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related discipline
- 8+ years of experience in database architecture, database engineering, or enterprise data platform design
- Strong expertise in relational database design and SQL development
- Experience supporting enterprise systems within federal government environments or comparable large-scale organizations
- Demonstrated experience designing secure, scalable, and high-availability database environments
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Advanced knowledge of relational database platforms such as: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience with cloud-based database platforms, including: AWS RDS / Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Cloud-native database services
- Expertise in Database schema design, data modeling and normalization, Query tuning and indexing strategies, database performance optimization, data replication and clustering, backup and disaster recovery planning
- Familiarity with ETL and data integration tools, API-based data exchange, database monitoring and observability tools.
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
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