Database Engineer​/Architect - Senior

About Bridge Defense. Bridge Defense is redefining how modern defense technology is delivered. Based in Washington, D.C., we are built for the dynamic mission environment facing the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and federal law enforcement agencies. We provide full-spectrum national security solutions that combine secure infrastructure, cleared talent, and mission-ready software to meet evolving defense challenges. Our services include secure software development in classified environments and the design and implementation of advanced IT and cybersecurity capabilities ranging from secure cloud architectures and enterprise infrastructure to data center operations, scientific analysis, and cutting‑edge cyber defense.

We are led by technologists and veterans with firsthand mission experience, which enables us to understand both the operational realities and the innovation needed to succeed. Our approach is agile and outcome‑based, delivering results in weeks rather than months whenever possible.

At Bridge Defense we value people, integrity, and excellence. We foster an environment where innovation thrives in support of traditional mission requirements. Our team members receive competitive compensation, robust benefits, professional development and certification opportunities, and clear paths for growth while working on the nation’s most critical projects.

• Innovation & Responsiveness:
  We push beyond legacy models with efficient, tech‑led solutions built to scale and evolve.
• Trusted Performance:
  Security, compliance, and deep experience in delivering to demanding environments guides all we do.
• Mission Focused Expertise:
  From veteran leadership to cleared engineers, our people understand both the technology and the mission.

Bridge Defense seeks a highly‑qualified Database Engineer or Architect to join a mission‑focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology.

Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands. The Database Engineer leads development of databases, database parser software, and database loading software; leads development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development; develops requirement recommendations from a project’s inception to its conclusion for a particular Business and IT subject matter area (i.e., simple to complex systems);

directs the overall database structure that fits into the overall architecture of the system under development and has to make trades among data volumes, number of users, logical and physical distribution, response times, retention rules, security and domain controls. Direct fulfillment of requirements from a project’s inception to it conclusion, directs organization of requirements and data into a usable database schema by directing development of ad hoc queries, scripts, macros, updates to existing queries;

direct the development of complex systems using queries, tables, Open Database Connectivity and database storage and retrieval using Cloud methodologies.

• Provides technical expertise for database design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow and analysis to include using Oracle, SQL Server, SYBASE, and other DBMS Database and Applications.
• Develops relational and/or Object‑Oriented databases, database parser software, and database loading software.
• Projects long‑range requirements for database administration and design.
• Responsible for developing a database structure that fits…