Database Engineer/Administrator - Military veterans preferred

Description

SAIC is seeking a Database Engineer/Administrator to provide support for the Integration Division (TFI) in Springfield, VA.  Candidate will be critical to implementing successful configuration, security, and monitoring of the TFI databases.

 

Primary Responsibilities

•        Provide insight and advice regarding data, products, and services within the Future Experience Office.

•        Provide regular database configuration, security, and monitoring while conducting studies analyzing the database schema in order to communicate the structures of TFI data to potential customers.

•         Serve as a liaison between customers and data providers to leverage knowledge to anticipate customer requirements and recommendations of GEOINT information.

•         Support the Agency's overall mission including expediting crisis work and ad hoc tasking on various scheduled arrangements to support TF leadership on emerging programs and projects to move the Customer Services and online delivery GEOINT forward.

•         Assist in formulating strategic initiatives related to CIO-T/TF/TFI Future Experience Office.

•         Provide assessments to identify effective initiatives and their processes. Develop strategies and identify measures and actions required to achieve and/or improve the Future Experience Office’s provided services.

•         Provide customer service expertise and advice to ensure NGA’s three-tiered model is supportive of the full spectrum of GEOINT users

•         Develop iterations of dashboards with metrics information to assess existing site instrumentation data and develop implementation strategies.

•         Establish an agile analytics process that provides better insight into ongoing analytic/data visualization activities.

•         Provide an inventory of implemented and in-development dashboards. Maintain current dashboard backlog for implementation.

•         Incorporate feedback and coordination with TF partners to develop the next iteration of visualization dashboards.

•         Identify the data visualization requirements of the dashboard to identify key NGA products and services used to support potential high priority operational activities.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM related graduate degree with 5 years of experience or 10 equivalent years of work related experience in the information technology field.

• Demonstrate experience with relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, etc.) and Structured Query Language (SQL), general understanding of routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a database.

• Demonstrate experience working with requestors to understand the purpose and content of requested reports, utilizing systems to create routine reports to meet user needs, and audits and analyzes data to verify quality and data integrity (balancing, control totals, quality checking)

 

Desired Skills

Experience with AWS (RDS, EC2, S3) is a plus.  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, or STEM related graduate degree with 5 years of experience or 10 equivalent years of work related experience in the information technology field.
• Demonstrate experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) Database.
• Demonstrate experience working with requestors to understand the purpose and content of requested reports, utilizing systems to create routine reports to meet user needs, and audits and analyzes data to verify quality and data integrity (balancing, control totals, quality checking)