Database Solutions Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton • Springfield, VA

47d • $86,800 - $198,000 • Remote

About The Position

Data is only useful when it is trusted, accessible, and ready to support the mission. As a Database Developer, you’ll help design and deliver secure, high-performing Oracle Database solutions that support applications, analytics, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows. In this role, you’ll work across logical and physical data design, geospatial intelligence, multimodal data, and emerging AI capabilities. You’ll help integrate relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data while ensuring solutions remain reliable, maintainable, secure, and ready to support operational users. You’ll collaborate with application developers, AI specialists, data engineers, cloud architects, security professionals, and customer stakeholders to solve complex data challenges. If you’re excited about building database capabilities that make mission data more useful and actionable, we invite you to join us.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, database development, or data architecture
• Experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing Oracle Database solutions, including logical and physical design, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, and operational support
• Experience managing geospatial intelligence data, including raster and vector formats, and designing spatial schemas, indexes, queries, and services
• Experience designing multi-modal database solutions using relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data types
• Experience enabling AI use cases in Oracle Database using vector data types, embeddings, RAG, or MCP integrations
• Experience with SQL and PL/SQL, including schemas, packages, procedures, functions, views, and query optimization
• Experience assessing source systems, developing migration and conversion strategies, validating data quality, and collaborating across technical and mission teams
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle Exadata, or OCI Autonomous AI Database Service on Exadata
• Experience creating RESTful APIs and integrating with Oracle API Gateway or similar API management capabilities
• Experience migrating Oracle Databases into OCI using Zero Downtime Migration, Data Pump, GoldenGate, or similar tools
• Experience migrating JSON data from MongoDB or similar document stores into Oracle Database
• Experience with Oracle Spatial and spatial analytics workflows
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, reliable, and observable database solutions in regulated or mission environments
• Knowledge of OCI, including database deployment, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, and security services

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize Oracle Database solutions for complex enterprise and mission workloads.
• Design logical and physical data models, schemas, indexes, views, packages, and data access patterns that support performance, security, and maintainability.
• Design multi-model Oracle Database solutions integrating relational, spatial, JSON, and graph data types.
• Manage geospatial intelligence data, including raster and vector formats, and develop spatial schemas, indexes, queries, and services.
• Enable AI use cases in Oracle Database using vector data types, embeddings, RAG, and MCP integrations.
• Assess source systems, define migration and conversion strategies, and validate data quality, completeness, reconciliation, and performance.
• Support database operations, including performance tuning, monitoring, backup and recovery, security, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with application, AI, data engineering, cloud, security, and customer teams to translate requirements into maintainable database designs.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior