The Role
Develops, troubleshoots, and supports enterprise Oracle database applications using advanced SQL and PL/SQL. Responsibilities include debugging production issues, optimizing database code, maintaining data feeds and integrations across NiFi, AWS, APIs, and files, performing data validation and reconciliation, supporting deployments and incidents, tuning performance, and collaborating with DBAs and infrastructure teams on RAC, recovery, Data Guard, security, and operational reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In
Red Arch Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise-scale Oracle database applications. This position is primarily focused on hands-on SQL and PL/SQL development, production debugging, script remediation, ad hoc data analysis, and the maintenance of data feeds and integration endpoints.
The ideal candidate has expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, along with complementary database administration skills that support effective production troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, recovery, and collaboration with DBA and infrastructure teams.
Basic Qualifications:
Required Skills:
The ideal candidate has expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, along with complementary database administration skills that support effective production troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, recovery, and collaboration with DBA and infrastructure teams.
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification
- Experience with Oracle Exadata, Database Vault, Label Security, and large-scale data migration is highly desirable.
- Ability to work effectively with developers, database administrators, application owners, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and upstream and downstream integration partners.
- Must be an independent, analytical, and detail-oriented contributor with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage production issues and competing priorities.
- TS/SCI w/ polygraph required.
Required Skills:
- 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database, including Oracle 10g through current versions.
- Advanced expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, including packages, procedures, functions, triggers, views, materialized views, dynamic SQL, collections, bulk processing, exception handling, and database APIs.
- Extensive experience debugging and troubleshooting complex SQL and PL/SQL code in development, test, and production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Analyze existing database code and business logic.
- Identify defects, data issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing scripts.
- Develop and maintain operational and production-support scripts.
- Create ad hoc queries for data analysis, reporting, reconciliation, validation, and issue resolution.
- Strong experience maintaining and supporting data feeds and system integrations, including:
- Apache NiFi data flows and endpoints.
- AWS services, interfaces, and endpoints.
- APIs and service-based integrations.
- File-based data transfers and batch interfaces.
- Upstream and downstream application dependencies.
- Data validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and feed monitoring.
- Experience diagnosing data-feed and integration failures by tracing issues across database objects, PL/SQL processes, NiFi flows, AWS endpoints, files, APIs, and dependent systems.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning, including execution-plan analysis, optimizer statistics, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, locking, concurrency, and wait-event analysis.
- Experience using Oracle diagnostic and performance tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
- Experience supporting high-volume data processing, batch jobs, ETL workflows, data conversion, data migration, and data-reconciliation processes.
- Working knowledge of database application design, data modeling, schema development, and database object management sufficient to maintain and enhance scalable, reliable database solutions.
- Experience deploying SQL, PL/SQL, schema, and configuration changes through structured development, testing, validation, and production-release processes.
- Familiarity with source control, code review, release documentation, rollback planning, and automated or repeatable database deployment practices.
- Complementary Oracle database administration experience, including working knowledge of:
- Oracle RAC.
- RMAN backup and recovery.
- Oracle Data Guard.
- Database security, roles, privileges, and auditing.
- Tablespaces, storage, sessions, locks, and database-object management.
- Production monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and recovery procedures.
- Debug and resolve complex SQL, PL/SQL, data, and production-processing issues.
- Review, rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing SQL and PL/SQL scripts.
- Develop ad hoc queries and scripts to support investigations, reporting, reconciliation, data correction, and operational requests.
- Maintain and enhance PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, and database interfaces.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain data feeds involving Oracle, Apache NiFi, AWS endpoints, APIs, files, and connected applications.
- Investigate failed or incomplete data flows and coordinate resolution across database, integration, application, and infrastructure teams.
- Perform data validation and root-cause analysis to identify discrepancies between source and target systems.
- Support application releases, database deployments, production incidents, and post-deployment validation.
- Tune SQL and PL/SQL workloads to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Partner with Oracle DBAs on database configuration, RAC, recovery, Data Guard, security, performance, and environment-related issues.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, deployment instructions, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.
Salary range for this position: $190,000-$220,000 #CJ
Skills Required
- 10+ years developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification
- Advanced Oracle SQL and PL/SQL expertise
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex SQL and PL/SQL code in development, test, and production environments
- Experience with data feeds, system integrations, Apache NiFi, AWS endpoints, APIs, file transfers, and batch interfaces
- Experience with SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning and Oracle diagnostic tools
- Experience supporting high-volume data processing, ETL workflows, data conversion, migration, and reconciliation
- Working knowledge of database application design, data modeling, schema development, and database object management
- Experience with structured database deployment, testing, release documentation, rollback planning, and source control
- Oracle database administration knowledge, including RAC, RMAN, Data Guard, security, auditing, storage, locks, and recovery
- Experience with Oracle Exadata, Database Vault, Label Security, and large-scale data migration
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- Strong written and verbal communication, analytical ability, independence, and production issue management skills
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The Company
What We Do
Red Arch Solutions is a premier U.S. small business providing its customers with state-of-the-art tactical and strategic intelligence, systems, and software engineering solutions, solving some of the most pressing and unique intelligence community challenges related to National Security. Our employees are exceptionally skilled professionals; individuals who are dedicated to collecting, analyzing, creating and engineering the best solutions in support of critical missions. Red Arch Solutions takes pride in the success of our customers. The depth of our engineers’ experience combined with our breadth of exposure across the intelligence community enables us to provide value added, synergistic analytical and engineering support. Unique to Red Arch Solutions is the focus on its employees. Our guiding principle is “People First.” We offer employees career mobility and stability, work-life balance flexibility, and individualized career paths. The loyalty of highly trained, skilled professionals is our key corporate asset. Red Arch Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.
