[Hiring] Senior Database Administrator @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program, an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) in developing a modern, cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States. The Senior Database Administrator will leverage their expertise to help the CMM Data Modernization and Governance Team deliver integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill the AOUSC’s data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM Program.

The Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for providing production support for mission-critical database environments that power the CMM Program. This role includes shift-based coverage and on-call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution in support of CMM objectives for modernization, analytics, and operational excellence. The Senior Database Administrator partners closely with the Data Architecture, Data Governance, and Migration teams to ensure work is consistent, auditable, and aligned with CMM's cloud-based standards.

As a Senior Database Administrator, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the AOUSC. You will play a crucial role in:

• Providing production support for mission-critical database environments, including shift-based coverage and on-call support to ensure high availability and timely issue resolution.
• Monitoring database performance, responding to incidents, troubleshooting production issues, and coordinating with development and operations teams to restore service quickly.
• Performing root-cause analysis for production defects and contributing to long-term stability improvements.
• Working within an Agile solution development environment with daily scrums, biweekly sprint planning, and quarterly Program Increment planning.
• Developing operating standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensuring the proper definition, control, and coordination of data elements and standards, and the facilitation of efficient data relationships, systems integration, and physical structure.
• Participating in the development and implementation of database management policies and standards for efficient quality control and data administration.
• Collaborating with Product Owners and users to gather business requirements and define and map them to technical requirements.
• Meeting with agency leaders and stakeholders, collaborating with other consultants and program/agency personnel regarding the development of innovative data analysis techniques.
• Documenting complex workflow designs to present to project team and stakeholders.
• Working on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting large amounts of data to help guide business decisions.
• Synthesizing disparate information and recognizing patterns and relationships across data.
• Hosting and conducting peer reviews of the code of other developers on the team.
• Developing stored procedures, jobs, views, tables, and other database objects in SQL Server Management Studio.
• Designing and developing scalable data models for Databricks lakehouse environments.
• Developing and deploying ETL packages using CI/CD pipeline.
• Working with Atlassian Suite of software development management tools.
• Indexing system and application logs into the Splunk system monitoring application, then creating dashboards, alerts, and reports from those logs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, or relevant computer-based major & 5+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis (or similar role).
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, or relevant computer-based major & 7+ years of experience in server database maintenance and database analysis (or similar role).
• 4+ years of additional experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 communication skills and ability to work with people at every level.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid leave and paid holidays, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.