Senior Oracle Database / ETL Developer

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain complex PL/SQL packages and SQL for business, integration, and reporting needs.
Design, build, and optimize hand-rolled PL/SQL ETL pipelines.
Automate and orchestrate batch jobs across OS cron and Oracle's internal scheduler.
Monitor pipeline and job health for accuracy, performance, and reliability.
Troubleshoot data and performance issues across the database and batch layers.
Document processes and participate in code reviews and production support.

Required Skills & Experience

• Shell scripting (Bash/Korn) for cron orchestration, file handling, and job wrappers.
• Experience with version control VSS, and ticketing tools (Jira).
• Oracle Database 10+ years hands-on experience with Oracle (11g/12c/19c).
• Strong understanding of database architecture, data modeling, normalization, and schema design.
• Performance tuning using execution plans, indexing, partitioning, and statistics.
• SQL Advanced query development: complex joins, analytic/window functions, subqueries, set operations, and hierarchical queries.
• Query troubleshooting and optimization.
• PL/SQL Expert-level development of stored procedures, functions, packages, and triggers.
• Cursors, ref cursors, collections, bulk operations (BULK COLLECT, FORALL), and dynamic SQL.
• Robust exception handling, autonomous transactions, and modular, reusable code design.
• Custom PL/SQL ETL (Hand-Rolled): Designing and building ETL pipelines entirely in PL/SQL — no reliance on commercial ETL tools.
• Ingesting data via external tables, SQL*Loader, and UTL_FILE for flat-file processing.
• Handling incremental and full loads, staging strategies, error handling, logging, and reconciliation.
• Ensuring data quality and integrity through validation logic and audit trails.
• Optimizing high-volume transformations using set-based SQL and bulk processing.
• Batch Scheduling (OS Cron + Oracle Scheduler): Scheduling and maintaining batch jobs using OS-level cron (Unix/Linux).
• Building and managing jobs with Oracle's internal scheduler (DBMS_SCHEDULER / DBMS_JOB), including programs, schedules, chains, and job dependencies.
• Coordinating workloads that span both the OS and database scheduling layers.
• Monitoring execution, building logging/alerting, and handling failures, retries, and restartability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of Oracle database development with significant hand-rolled ETL and batch automation experience.

Benefits

• Health care, dental, vision, life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Education assistance.
• Paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

Pay

The salary offered will depend on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity, business needs, and other factors permitted by law.

Schedule

Hybrid / 2 days per week onsite in Arlington, VA