Database Engineer​/Team Lead

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Nakupuna Consulting seeks a Database Engineer Team Lead with supervisory and leadership experience who will be responsible for maintaining and ending enhancing mission critical datasets for our Department of Defense (DoD) customer(s). The candidate will lead a team of 3 - 4 Database Administrators and Engineers, collaborating with both contractor and government civilian professionals, to accomplish database and data architecture priorities set by the customer.

The candidate should be familiar with Agile project methodologies, able to work with a geographically dispersed workforce, and be comfortable communicating with a variety of IT professionals including technicians, end-users, and executive level stakeholders. This position demands knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and development as well as the ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies as the customer migrates into managed database services.

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

• Work closely with the customer and database team to establish team tasks and priorities.
• Serve as technical lead for a team of 3-4 database administrators and engineers to fulfill customer priorities.
• Enforce project best-practices, including ensuring all work is documented, approved, and properly reported.
• Collaborate with the customer and other IT functional teams to ensure database requirements are being communicated and fulfilled.
• Advise stakeholders on suggested COAs, roadmaps, and compliance improvements as required.
• Create white-papers, PowerPoint presentations, and workflow diagrams to facilitate communication and documentation needs.
• Supervise 3-4 database administrators / engineers. Supervisor duties include annual goal setting, frequent professional development conversations, coaching / mentorship, performance assessments.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve inefficient processes, and train IT administrators on database related activities.

• Database Engineering and Architecture:
  Design and develop data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integration workflows to support business intelligence and analytics platforms.
• Data Modeling:
  Create and maintain logical and physical data models, ensuring alignment with business and system requirements.
• Database Management:
  Build, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server databases to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Data Quality and Governance:
  Implement data quality controls, auditing, and governance policies to ensure accuracy, consistency, and security of data assets.
• Performance Optimization:
  Implement best practices for query tuning, indexing strategies, and storage optimization to achieve optimal database performance.
• Automation:
  Develop automation scripts using T-SQL, Power Shell, or other scripting languages to streamline data processes and database management tasks.
• Cloud Integration:
  Leverage cloud-based solutions to support data architectures within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Gov Cloud environment.
• Documentation:
  Develop and maintain documentation including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), diagrams and presentations.
• Strategic Contribution:
  Help define data strategy and contribute to technology selection and adoption to improve the data ecosystem.
• Quality Assurance:
  Develop comprehensive test suites and detailed test plans for unit testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Skills/

Qualifications:

• Excellent technical, organizational, decision-making, analytical, and planning skills. Effective communicator who takes initiative and the ability to adapt to dynamic environments.
• Expertise in database design, data warehousing, and ETL…