Database Engineer - Oracle

Prodigy One, LLC. is a systems and software engineering services firm providing more than 45 years of service to state and federal customers. By combining unparalleled experience and capabilities, our company provides big data, cloud development, and enterprise management solutions. We are focused on product usability and end user presentation to help our customers make the best decisions possible. Given our length of service in the industry, Prodigy One knows the importance of a competitive salary and benefits package. That's why our total compensation package can be tailored to meet employees personal needs. 

A CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE  

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Salary Information: 148K - 204K

Compensation and labor categories are defined in accordance with program requirements and government guidelines. Salary within the posted range is determined based on an individual’s experience, education, certifications, and overall qualifications, and may be further adjusted based on benefit selections.

Job Description:
The Database Engineer / Oracle Database Administrator supports complex, high-performance systems with stringent interface, security, and availability requirements. This role provides deep technical expertise across the full database engineering lifecycle, including architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, testing, and documentation. The ideal candidate analyzes user and system requirements to develop scalable database architectures and contributes to system design and configuration documentation, including capacity planning and performance optimization.

This position plays a key role in addressing advanced technical challenges such as distributed data replication, concurrent data access, and high availability. The Database Engineer/Oracle DBA also conducts risk assessments, evaluates alternative solutions, and implements best practices to ensure robust and reliable database operations.

Working within an Agile environment, the selected individual collaborates closely with cross-functional teams including system and software engineers, integration and test engineers, and information assurance professionals to support large-scale, geographically distributed systems. The role involves contributing to Program Increment (PI) Planning and other Agile activities, while ensuring engineering rigor across all assigned tasks.

Additionally, the Database Engineer/Oracle DBA supports database design, development, and optimization efforts; translates requirements into effective database schemas; develops queries, scripts, and data structures; and assists in building database-related software components. This role contributes to both short-term and long-term database strategies, ensuring alignment with overall system architecture from project inception through completion.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have at least 10 years of high‐level, in‐depth, dedicated database experience.
• Must have in‐depth experience as a Database Administrator to include proficiency in tasks such as data migration, data replication, user administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, issue investigation, issue resolution, and general administration.
• Must have a solid understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non relational/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Must have experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in general.
• Must have experience scripting with JavaScript, Bash/Linux shell scripting ﴾in general﴿ Perl, and/or Python.
• Must have knowledge of programming languages to include Java.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
• Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking.
• Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently, and with a team, in a fast‐moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework ﴾SAFe﴿ methodology and/or as a
• member of an Agile team.
• Experience with Cassandra.
• Experience with MongoDB.

Education Requirements: 

• 10% Employer Contribution to 401K; Immediately Vested
• 5 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO) up to 7 weeks 
• Access to Premium Healthcare/Dental/Vision Available 
• $2500 Training Paid 
• Referral Company Profit Sharing

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.