Senior Database Administrator – Production Support
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Senior Database Administrator providing production database support for GDIT’s cloud-based federal court modernization program. Designing Databricks lakehouse models, ETL pipelines, and resilient data platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Provide production support for mission-critical database environments with shift-based coverage and on-call support
- Monitor database performance, respond to incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and coordinate service restoration
- Perform root-cause analysis and contribute to long-term stability improvements
- Participate in Agile delivery through daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning, and quarterly Program Increment planning
- Develop operating standards and best practices for performance, security, scalability, and maintainability
- Define, control, and coordinate data elements and standards
- Facilitate efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical data structures
- Develop and implement database management policies and standards
- Collaborate with Product Owners, users, agency leaders, stakeholders, consultants, and program personnel
- Gather business requirements and map them to technical requirements
- Document complex workflow designs for project teams and stakeholders
- Analyze complex situations and data to support business strategies and methods
- Collect, analyze, and interpret large datasets for business decisions
- Apply statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques
- Synthesize data from multiple sources and develop visualizations for KPIs and program metrics
- Conduct peer reviews of developers’ code
- Perform data validation and ensure data accuracy and integrity
- Develop stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio
- Design and develop scalable Databricks lakehouse data models using bronze, silver, and gold layers, dimensional models, fact and dimension tables, and curated data products
- Develop and deploy ETL packages using CI/CD pipelines
- Use configuration management systems for version control
- Work with the Atlassian Suite
- Index system and application logs in Splunk and create dashboards, alerts, and reports
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, or relevant computer-based major and 5+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role
- 4+ years of additional experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor’s degree
- Experience supporting production database systems, including shift-based coverage and on-call responsibilities
- Proficient experience with AWS database technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and other AWS-managed data services
- Experience with Databricks and exposure to AWS cloud platform
- Experience installing, configuring, and providing ongoing administration support for database environments
- Understanding of standard data warehouse concepts
- Proficiency in data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams, and data marts
- Experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions
- Experience migrating data from legacy on-premises databases to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms
- Ability to work independently, prioritize, and complete tasks
- Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
- Organization and time management skills
- Communication skills and ability to work with people at every level
- Comfortable writing ideas, implementation plans, and status reports
- Must be a US Person: Green Card Holder, US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, or US Citizen
- Must pass a background check to obtain Public Trust
- Must provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility
- Preferred certifications: Databricks Certified Data Professional; AWS Certified Database – Specialty; AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and/or Professional
Benefits:
- AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
- Internal mobility team supporting career goals
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401(k) with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan options
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
- Award-winning culture of innovation
- Military-friendly workplace
- Opportunities for career growth
- Identity verification process with virtual interviews conducted on camera
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