Senior Database Engineer with Poly

About the role

BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our team and assist in meeting the needs of our government customer. In this role, you’ll work onsite at the assigned customer location in Annapolis Junction, MD, ensuring optimized database performance and delivering solutions that directly impact national security. A TS/SCI with Poly clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Optimize database performance by monitoring databases and related systems to ensure they are running efficiently and effectively.
• Support agile development by participating in agile activities, including release planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to incorporate lessons learned into engineering processes.
• Model data by designing local schemas, tables, data types, indexes, procedures, and functions to support mission needs.
• Collaborate with developers throughout the application development lifecycle to build features that deliver value to our customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of database experience.
• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance (required).
• Proficiency in database technologies such as MongoDB or MariaDB, including:
  • Deployment and management of the database itself.
  • Debugging and resolving optimization issues.
  • Scaling databases to meet performance demands.
• Experience with Django or Flask frameworks.
• Familiarity with REST endpoints and microservices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Swagger for API documentation.
• Cloud experience with AWS, C2S, or other platforms.
• Containerization tools like Docker.
• Proficiency with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code or similar.
• Experience with JSON and/or XML serialization.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence for project management.
• Git version control for collaborative development.
• Agile development methodologies.

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on BigBear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI.