Database Administrator/Data Architect

Transform technology into opportunity as a Database Administrator with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Database Administrator you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Database Administrator joining our team to evolve and maintain network infrastructure for the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
• Responsible for designing, planning, implementing, and administering databases, including security, access, and documentation
• Maintain and support of existing and future databases in all designated NNSA enclaves. This includes responsibility for managing data, namely dataset placement, database performance, and data recovery and integrity at a physical level.
• Designs and builds relational databases. Performs data access analysis design, and archive/recovery design and implementation.
• Develops strategies for data acquisitions, archive recovery, and implementation of a database.
• Responsibility for managing data, namely dataset placement, database performance, and data recovery and integrity at a physical level.
• Works in a data warehouse environment, which includes data design, database architecture, and metadata repository creation.
• Develops data warehousing blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms, and integrating systems.
• Reviews and develops object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access.
• Provides expert knowledge for the design, development, build, analysis, evaluation, installation and administration of database management systems to include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, non-relational database architecture and procedures, metadata and repository creation and configuration management
• Designs and implements databases with respect to access methods, access time, batch processes, device allocation, validation checks, organization, ETL tasks, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods
• Prepares system requirements, source analysis and process analyses and design throughout the database implementation
• Defines database organizations, standards, controls, procedures, and documentation
• Database performance tuning, optimization, indexing, and implementation of industry and agency best practices.
• Applying agency data and security standards and developing comprehensive data dictionaries.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
• Education: Doctorate/PhD (Substitutions will be based on additional years of experience)
• Required Experience: 15+ years of related experience
• Required Technical Skills: Database Administration, Data Architecture, Data Management, Database Design, Database Security, Data Warehouses
• Security Clearance Level: DOE Q or TS
• Required Skills and Abilities: Written and Oral Communication; Organization, Problem Solving, Communication, Technical Documentation, and Teamwork.
• Preferred Skills
• Location: Germantown. MD (Hybrid)
• US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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