Principal Database Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

This Principal Database Engineer position will be located on-site in Fairfax, VA, and may require some on-site support at the Pentagon. The Army PPB BOS program is seeking a data warehouse engineer who will make significant and ongoing contributions to the maturation of our data-driven processes.

The ideal candidate possesses both the analytical aptitude and problem-solving skillset necessary for extracting value from a collection of novel data sets. Additionally, the candidate should possess working experience with latest data warehousing trends/toolsets and implementation methods.  Other responsibilities may include data modeling, query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, database development and testing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work alongside a team of DB developers and other members of the program.
• Determine user needs, analyze system capabilities to achieve desired results and ensure software standards are met.
• Designs, develops, builds, analyzes, evaluates and installs database management systems to include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.
• Uses data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop databases.
• Determines data storage and optimum storage requirements.
• Prepares system requirements, source analysis and process analyses and design throughout the database implementation.
• Self-starter, team-player and work under general supervision.
• Complete the tasks in a fast-paced results driven environment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 5 years of experience OR Master's degree with 3 years of experience.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience developing data warehouse process models, including sourcing, loading, transforming and extracting data sets
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience with design and implementation of data warehousing technologies including relational and nonrelational databases, SQL, and data analytics
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience supporting Oracle database management systems running on Windows or Linux