Database Developer

We are building a team for one of the U.S. Federal Government's largest technology modernization programs, underpinning the U.S. capital markets.

Built on AWS and leveraging an AI-powered software engineering platform, this program offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI, Agentic AI, cloud technologies, and AI-driven engineering.

If you are looking for technically challenging work, exceptional learning, and a résumé-defining opportunity with national impact, I would love to connect.

The Database Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing the data layer supporting a large-scale federal cloud platform. Working closely with application developers, database architects, and cloud engineers, this role develops high-performance database solutions, data pipelines, and data access components using AWS data services. The Database Developer ensures data integrity, security, scalability, and performance while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

• Design, develop, and maintain relational and No
  
  SQL database schemas supporting enterprise application workloads.
• Develop SQL queries, stored procedures, database objects, and data access components.
• Build, maintain, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines supporting application and reporting requirements.
• Optimize database performance through indexing, query tuning, and execution-plan analysis.
• Support logical and physical data modeling activities across AWS database platforms.
• Develop database solutions using AWS services including Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
• Ensure database security, integrity, backup, recovery, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with application developers, architects, and Dev Ops engineers to implement efficient data access strategies.
• Troubleshoot production database issues and support ongoing performance improvements.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to improve database development productivity and code quality.

• 3+ years of database development experience.
• Experience developing database solutions for enterprise applications.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.

• SQL development.
• Database design and development.
• Data modeling fundamentals.
• Relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Database performance tuning.
• AWS database services (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, or similar).
• ETL/ELT development.
• Database security and data integrity.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• U.S. work authorization.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

• Amazon Redshift experience.
• Experience developing data pipelines on AWS.
• Federal government or other high-volume transaction system experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted database development tools.
• Experience supporting cloud-native application architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices supporting database deployments.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).

• AWS Certified Database – Specialty.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.