Database Architect

Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Database Architect to be part of a mission applications development team for the Department of Justice. We are looking for a strong candidate with Database Architecture, experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, automation and scripting in addition to query optimization identification and remediation skills.

Primary Responsibilities

·       Become the expert on current application database architecture for a suite of 17 applications across two customer agency branches.

·       Lead, develop, diagram, and implement modernized database architecture(s) to align with modernization efforts by guiding the engineering and development teams.

·       Streamline and optimize database infrastructure to include more efficient processing and modern architecture to facilitate strategic initiatives.

·       Overall responsibility to maintain stable, efficient, and performant database operations in support of applications.

·       Works with infrastructure engineering to forecast and predict database load and performance requirements.

·       Designs metrics and assists in data gathering to support reporting of potential end-user application experience.

·       Leverage cloud technologies as applicable to continuously modernize legacy infrastructure.

·       Optimize and validate software, processes, and script usage of database tables to ensure performance.

·       Define and enforce enterprise database standards and data governance practices across all applications

·       Design and oversee data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, APIs, streaming) to ensure reliable data flow between systems

·       Lead adoption of database DevOps and automation practices, including CI/CD, schema versioning, and automated provisioning

Basic Qualifications

·       Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or a related field; Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience

·       7-10 years of database engineering/architecture experience, including ownership of complex, multi-application environments

·       Experience in MS SQL Server database, NoSQL databases (Mongo, Casandra), Objective related databases (PostGres), and data processing services.

·       Skilled in troubleshooting performance issues, optimizing queries, managing caching, clustering, and leveraging auto-scaling to handle workloads.

·       Proven ability to design and implement scalable, modern database architectures aligned with application modernization efforts

·       Hands-on experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting bottlenecks

·       Experience modernizing legacy systems, including migration to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

·       Strong understanding of capacity planning, load forecasting, and high availability/disaster recovery strategies

·       Ability to lead and guide engineering teams on database design, usage, and best practices

·       Experience working across teams to align database architecture with application and infrastructure design

·       Ability to define and implement database metrics, monitoring, and performance reporting tied to user experience.

·       Knowledge of data security, access controls, and compliance considerations in enterprise environments

·       Strong skills in architecture documentation and diagramming for complex systems

Preferred Qualifications

·       Proven leadership of large-scale modernization efforts, especially transforming legacy database ecosystems into cloud-native or hybrid architectures across multiple applications

·       Deep experience with both relational and NoSQL/distributed data systems, including selecting the right data store for different use cases (polyglot persistence)

·       Advanced cloud architecture expertise, including designing for serverless, event-driven, and microservices-based data patterns

·       Experience in federal or highly regulated environments, including implementing secure, compliant architectures (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA)

·       Strong troubleshooting skills for database related issues and incidents.

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