Lead Database Engineer

• 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.

• 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.

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.