Senior Software Engineer - Database Services

ProSidian Consulting•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

ProSidian Consulting is seeking a talented and motivated software engineer with interest and experience in design and implementation of database-centric system architectures. The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in the design and architecture of databases and caching layers embedded in enterprise products, possess good communication skills, and enjoy problem solving both independently and in team settings. This position will assume responsibility for the relationship between ProSidian Consulting and its federal government clients who seek support with supporting database schemas, including the performance, maintainability, reliability, integrity and security of all databases delivered as part of ProSidian Consulting’s IT Effectiveness and Business Process Solutions. This position is a contract position. All work shall be performed at the contractor's site, with the possibility of client meetings at the client site.

Requirements

BS/MS in CS with 5+ years’ experience in SQL database-backed system design and architecture
Familiarity with entity relationships, referential integrity, and cardinality concepts are desirable.
Experience with database caching/ORM technologies such as Hibernate
Experience with distributed transaction (XA) technologies
Experience with Java EE
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Willingness to learn new things

Nice To Haves

Experience with other transactional Relational Database Management Systems
Experience with commercial Business Intelligence solutions
Experience with database replication environments, high-availability configurations
Experience with techniques such as clustering and sharing
Experience planning, programming, testing, and maintaining web-based applications
Experience with Amazon AWS
Experience implementing database systems for the federal government

Responsibilities

Design/redesign databases and schemas, create stored procedures, views, triggers
Leverage knowledge of existing database platforms and frameworks to evaluate and recommend new technologies, including database ORM/caching layers.
Take ownership of policies and procedures that the ProSidian Consulting uses related to managing data and adjust accordingly based on feedback and observation.
Develop database performance benchmarks and optimize database performance through new features/technologies and refactoring.
Continuously re-evaluate the infrastructure for opportunities to improve all databases embedded in database solutions.
Construct and maintain database upgrade and patch process in conjunction with system upgrades.
Debug and diagnose complex database problems (e.g. deadlocks, etc.)
Coordinate with front end application developers to complete application development from back end perspective
Provide training, leadership, and mentoring to development, QA, and support personnel.

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