[Hiring] Senior Database Analyst/Administrator @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Database Analyst /Administrator

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented candidate to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Mission Support Systems Division (MSSD) in one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all federal courts’ community. MSSD has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.

The Database Analyst/ Administrator will execute the following responsibilities:

• Works within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning and quarterly Program Increment planning.
• Develops operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensures the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure.
• Participates in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration.
• Collaborates with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and map them to technical requirements.
• Meets with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques.
• Demonstrates ability to document complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and frequently contributes to the development of new business strategy, ideas, and methods adhering to best practices within the Agile framework.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets large amounts of data to help guide business decisions.
• Experience with using advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and predictive modeling techniques.
• Synthesizes disparate information and recognizes patterns and relationships across data; synthesizes large sets of data from multiple sources, develops data visualizations for the purposes of tracking key performance indicators and other critical metrics tied to program outcomes.
• Hosts and conducts peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team.
• Performs data validation and ensures data accuracy and integrity.
• Develops stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio.
• Designs and develops dimensional data models including star and snowflake schemas, fact and dimension tables, and enterprise data marts to support analytics, reporting and business intelligence solutions.
• Develops and deploys ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline.
• Exposure to core configuration management systems for version control.
• Works with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools.
• Indexes system and application logs into the Splunk system monitoring application, then creates dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs.

Qualifications

• At least seven (7+) years of Server database maintenance and database analysis or similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering or relevant computer-based major. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Database or cloud certification preferred such as Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent industry recognized database certification.
• Proficient experience with Databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Oracle.
• Experience with Snowflake and exposure to cloud platforms, Azure cloud platform.
• Experienced with completing database environment installation, configuration, ongoing administration support.
• Demonstrated understanding of standard Data warehouse concepts.
• Adept with data modeling, data mapping, data flow diagrams and data marts.
• Previous experience architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms.
• Experience with Data migration from legacy on-premises database to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to spearhead and work independently, prioritize, and get things done.
• Strong analytical, technical, problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to identify priorities to accomplish a variety of tasks on schedule.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level. Comfortable writing down ideas, implementation plans and status reports.

Requirements

• Experience creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
• Knowledge of court operations and law enforcement business data.

Benefits

• A variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• A vision plan.
• A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.