Senior Database Architect

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Join Leidos and become part of a high-impact initiative supporting a multidisciplinary team focused on delivering cutting-edge planning operational technical analytical and mission support capabilities. Were assembling a team of top-tier data professionals who are driven by curiosity innovation and a desire to make a meaningful impact.

Note: This position is part of a future contract opportunity pending award announcement.

The Leidos Defense Sector is seeking a highly qualified Senior Database Architect to support a multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering innovative planning operational technical analytical and mission support capabilities in Tampa FL. The successful candidate will collaborate with government military and contractor personnel to develop solutions that enable informed decision-making operational excellence and mission success. Candidate must already possess a TS/SCI security clearance in order to be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise database architectures supporting mission applications operational systems analytics reporting and organizational data requirements.

• Develop conceptual logical and physical database designs that ensure data integrity scalability performance availability security and interoperability across enterprise environments.

• Evaluate mission and application requirements to recommend appropriate relational NoSQL graph document distributed or cloud-native database technologies.

• Develop database architecture standards design patterns data models naming conventions and technical specifications that promote consistency and interoperability across systems.

• Design database schemas relationships indexing strategies partitioning approaches storage architectures and access patterns optimized for operational and analytical workloads.

• Develop architectures supporting high availability replication backup and recovery disaster recovery fault tolerance and continuity of operations requirements.

• Design secure database architectures incorporating encryption identity and access management role-based access controls auditing data protection and cybersecurity requirements.

• Collaborate with Data Architects Database Engineers Data Engineers software developers cybersecurity personnel system architects and mission stakeholders to translate business and operational requirements into scalable database solutions.

• Review existing database environments to identify architectural limitations performance constraints technical debt security risks and modernization opportunities.

• Develop database modernization and migration strategies supporting transition from legacy systems to cloud hybrid-cloud or modern enterprise data platforms.

• Support integration of databases with enterprise applications APIs data pipelines analytical environments data warehouses data lakes/lake houses and other information systems.

• Evaluate database performance requirements and provide architectural recommendations addressing scalability storage query performance concurrency and system availability.

• Develop technical architecture diagrams database design documentation data models interface specifications implementation guidance and technical decision papers.

• Conduct architecture and design reviews to ensure database implementations comply with established technical standards security requirements and enterprise architecture.

• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend solutions that improve performance scalability resilience security and mission effectiveness.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Engineers administrators developers and other technical personnel on database architecture and design best practices.

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 12 years of directly related experience in database architecture database engineering database administration data modeling enterprise application architecture or related technical disciplines.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering Data Engineering Computer Engineering Information Technology or a related technical discipline. Additional years of directly related experience may be substituted where permitted.

• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise database architectures supporting mission-critical or high-availability systems.

• Experience developing logical and physical data models and translating application or mission requirements into database architectures.

• Experience designing database solutions across on-premises cloud or hybrid environments.

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server Oracle MySQL or comparable enterprise platforms.

• Experience with non-relational technologies such as MongoDB Elasticsearch Cassandra graph databases or comparable platforms.

• Expertise in conceptual logical and physical data modeling schema design normalization and denormalization indexing partitioning and database performance principles.

• Strong understanding of database scalability high availability replication backup and recovery disaster recovery and fault-tolerant architectures.

• Experience designing cloud-based database solutions using Microsoft Azure AWS or comparable enterprise cloud platforms.

• Knowledge of database security architecture encryption access controls auditing and cybersecurity principles.

• Familiarity with APIs ETL/ELT pipelines data integration messaging architectures and enterprise application integration.

• Understanding of data governance metadata data lineage retention lifecycle management and information management principles.

• Strong analytical architectural troubleshooting and technical decision-making skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering Data Engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Experience supporting Department of Defense Intelligence Community or other national security organizations.

• Experience with Azure SQL Amazon RDS/Aurora Databricks Snowflake Microsoft Fabric Palantir Foundry or comparable enterprise data platforms.

• Experience designing databases supporting large-scale analytics artificial intelligence/machine learning real-time applications or mission-critical operational systems.

• Experience supporting database modernization cloud migration or legacy system transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with DoDAF TOGAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks.

• Relevant Microsoft AWS Oracle PostgreSQL Snowflake or other database/cloud architecture certifications.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI required

* Standard day shift; schedule may be adjusted based on operational or customer requirements.

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