Database Architect – SME

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📀 Database Administrator

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Lead enterprise database architecture and technical operations across assigned environments • Establish database design, configuration, administration, monitoring, security, and documentation standards • Translate mission, application, analytical, and warehouse requirements into database architecture decisions • Guide Microsoft SQL Server architecture, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and modernization • Oversee database performance monitoring, capacity planning, query optimization, indexing, and resource utilization • Resolve complex database availability, connectivity, integrity, concurrency, and performance issues • Design and review high-availability and disaster-recovery approaches aligned with Government requirements • Oversee backup strategies, restore procedures, recovery testing, and documented recovery readiness • Validate recovery point and recovery time objectives with Government stakeholders and technical teams • Coordinate database recovery and restoration during outages, incidents, exercises, and planned transitions • Establish database security practices covering access, privileged accounts, encryption, auditing, and configuration controls • Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on findings, remediation, authorization evidence, and approved security changes • Guide database upgrades, migrations, platform refreshes, consolidation, and modernization initiatives • Assess proposed changes for effects on availability, performance, security, integrations, and downstream consumers • Review database schemas, data models, interfaces, and integration patterns for scalability and maintainability • Coordinate database dependencies with data warehouse, application, infrastructure, analytics, and AI teams • Review technical designs, implementation plans, test results, rollback procedures, and operational handoffs • Develop architecture diagrams, technical decision records, standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance • Mentor database administrators through technical coaching, design reviews, knowledge transfer, and development planning • Recommend improvements that strengthen database reliability, operational efficiency, recovery capability, and maintainability • Communicate database health, technical risks, modernization priorities, and recommended decisions to Government stakeholders and program leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, database management, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent • Experience with enterprise database architecture • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server • Experience implementing or supporting database high availability • Experience with database backup, restoration, and recovery • Experience with database security • Experience planning or implementing database modernization • Ability to lead database operations and establish technical standards • Ability to oversee database performance, resolve complex technical issues, and guide database administrator development • Relevant database platform certification preferred • CISSP certification preferred, with alignment to the proposed DoD 8570 IASAE Level II qualification preference • Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense database environments preferred • Experience with SQL Server Always On availability groups, failover clustering, replication, or comparable availability technologies preferred • Experience planning and executing database migrations, major upgrades, and platform transitions preferred • Familiarity with cloud-hosted databases, managed database services, and hybrid architectures preferred • Experience supporting data warehouses, ETL/ELT processes, analytical workloads, or AI-ready data platforms preferred • Experience automating database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and recovery tasks preferred • Experience conducting recovery exercises and validating recovery objectives preferred • Strong technical mentoring, architecture documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer • Authorization to share resume and personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this and comparable positions