Current opportunities >> Position Details >>

Position Details

Job order - J0417-0275 - Permanent Full Time
Title Senior Database Engineer
Category Database Administration
City Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Job Description Senior Database Engineer

Position Description
CGI is looking for a Senior Database Engineer who will be responsible for establishing database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan, and security policy.


Your future duties and responsibilities
Adapts business requirements, developed by modeling/ development staff and systems engineers, and develops the data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for an application.
Documents and communicates database design.
Evaluates and installs database management systems.
Codes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms,
Builds windows, screens, and reports.
Assists in designing user interface and business application prototypes.
Participates in quality assurance and develops test application code in client server environment. Provides expertise in devising, negotiating, and defending the tables and fields provided in the database.
At more experienced levels, helps to develop an understanding of client's original data and storage mechanisms.
Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimal storage organization.
Determines how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model.



Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Master’s Degree is required plus 3-6 years of relevant experience
Experience making certain that security policies, privacy policies are complied with and that data is protected, available to only authorized users and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
Knowledgeable of federal laws and regulations, directives, instructions, policy, standards, and guidance, so that requirements support security and privacy compliance. Knowledgeable of FedRAMP requirements and guidance.
Experienced at advanced level in database management and data administration support for large data systems across multiple platforms. Advises on best practices and provides database management and administration tasks such as standardizing data names, definitions, usage, and structures.
Experienced in supporting an installed mainframe environment both in a data center and in a hybrid cloud environment and/or retooling a mainframe-oriented infrastructure environment to a Platform-as-a-service environment.
Leads and directs database specialists to manage databases, manage database projects, and provide database administration functions.
Leads and manages large database projects including the design, installation, configuration, backup and maintenance of data integrity. Performs or oversees data administration tasks and tuning of full-featured databases to maximize efficiency and availability.
Experience designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining data repository systems.
Provides design and development of interface capabilities between database systems and other management systems to support access and usage of programmatic data.
Experience with development of databases including logical and physical designs. Can manage and oversee full SDLC phases of projects. Makes recommendations on improvements in design, configuration and data administration.
Leads, advises or oversees the critical database usage standards, procedures, and conventions. Advises on new technologies and best practices in this area such as Data Lakes, data warehouses, big data platforms.
Presents technical briefings on designs, recommendations, project progress, status, issues, and solutions on data administration and database development projects.
Excellent Oral and written communications.
Expert level experience with: MS Office, MS Project, Specific relational, hierarchical, or OODB database product and structure knowledge


Desired Certs / Other: Commercial certifications for database products, Certs or specialized advanced training of commercial databases such as DB2, Oracle, OODBs
Desired Emerging Tech Experience: Cloud, Big data platforms and data analysis, Emerging backup and storage technologies

#CGIFEDERALJOB



Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

CGI is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status, political affiliation, genetic information, or any other legally protected status or characteristics.

CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the requisition number of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a requisition number will not be returned.

We make it easy to translate military experience and skills! Click here to be directed to our site that is dedicated to veterans and transitioning service members.

All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held.

CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.




Skills
  • Database

Reference 537101

Click here to apply