Lead Database Engineer

BigBear.ai, Inc.
Jessup, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Jessup, United States of America

Tech stack

Program Optimization
Code Reuse
Databases
Database Design
Database Storage Structures
Computer Data Storage
Elasticsearch
Interoperability
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Oracle Applications
Redis
Signal Processing
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Systems Architecture
Data Analytics
Non-relational Database

Job description

  • Develop Novel Algorithms: Contribute to cutting-edge development programs by innovating RF signal processing techniques and creating analytics, visualization, and discovery tools that enable precise geolocation and actionable insights.

  • Ensure Interoperability: Integrate new and legacy software across diverse hardware platforms, ensuring performance and interoperability across various form factors.

  • Drive System Design Decisions: Provide critical input to system design decisions, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse strategies, and the incorporation of COTS and GOTS solutions.

What you will do

As a Database Engineer, you'll:

  • Design & Develop Databases: Support database design, development, implementation, information storage, and retrieval activities.

  • Analyze & Optimize Systems: Assist with the analysis and evaluation of system improvements, optimization, development, and maintenance efforts.

  • Define Requirements: Develop long- and short-term requirements for database administration and design.

  • Create Usable Solutions: Translate requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating ad hoc queries, scripts, and macros; update existing queries and create new ones to manipulate data into master files.

  • Build Complex Systems: Develop database parser software, database loading software, and database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development.

  • Lead Development Efforts: Take ownership of database structures and software development, ensuring they align with system architecture and meet project requirements.

Requirements

  • Experience: Five (5) years of experience as a Database Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university. (Four years of additional DBE experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.)

  • Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph (required).

  • Technical Expertise:

  • Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, including Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis.

  • Proficiency in SQL and associated tools (e.g., SQL Developer).

  • Experience developing long- and short-term requirements for database administration and design.

What we'd like you to have

  • Elasticsearch Experience: Familiarity with Elasticsearch and its integration into database systems.

About the company

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai's predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai. BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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