Data Management Lead

Data Management Lead, #475

Clearance: Ability to obtain the required government security clearance (CBP Final)

Dev Technology is looking for a new Data Management Lead with a focus on PostgreSQL expertise and developing Cloud solutions to help lead the way on building out effective data management solutions as we migrate our many data domains into the cloud. We use Oracle, DB2, and PostgreSQL today, along with S3 buckets. The ideal person will bring a breadth of technical knowledge as well as skills to help manage work through to completion. This is a role for someone who likes to work on multiple aspects of a solution, do some hands-on solutioning, communicate with leadership, manage a team of database resources, and can drive change in collaboration with our government customer. 

What You'll Be Doing 

The Data Management Lead will work with program leadership in support of current and future software delivery for our government client, with a specific focus on identifying strategies for redesigning the environment's data architecture as it moves into the cloud, using PostgreSQL as our main datastore. The successful candidate will enjoy providing guidance based on past experience and getting hands on with new tools to create proofs of concept. The most suitable candidates will be flexible and forward-leaning, and working hand-in-hand with the software architects to design holistic solutions to achieve results for the client. The Data Management Lead will also lead a team of data management resources in our day-to-day support of these applications.  

Required Education, Experience, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years in a data engineering role including databases, data integration, data mining, big data
• Experience working on a software development program with complex data management needs
• Experience with PostgreSQL database development and administration
• Experience with AWS-specific data management strategies
• Experience with formal or informal leadership of technical team members
• Ability to learn new tools quickly as needed to provide new ideas for solving problems
• Ability and desire to conduct hands on data tool development work to complete proofs of concept
• Ability and desire to work with other program staff and customers to reach design decisions within given constraints
• Excellent diplomacy and communication skills with both clients and technical staff

Preferred Education, Skills, and Experience:

• Experience designing data structures for a microservices environment (to be state)
• Experience planning, designing and developing migration plans from on-premise to cloud
• Experience defining data strategy, technology standards, best practices and data governance processes
• Experience with database task automation to support CI/CD process
• Familiarity with some of these tools: DB2, Oracle, SAP, Postgres, Elastic Search, S3, Glacier, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Hadoop, Splunk, Informatica, Python, SAP HANA
• Experience working with federal government clients
• Experience with ETL and business intelligence tools (Informatica)