Senior Oracle Database Engineer

BT-382 - Senior Oracle Database Engineer

Location- Annapolis Junction, MD

**Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.**

Bespoke Technologies is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise-scale Oracle database applications. This position is primarily focused on hands-on SQL and PL/SQL development, production debugging, script remediation, ad hoc data analysis, and the maintenance of data feeds and integration endpoints.

The ideal candidate has expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, along with complementary database administration skills that support effective production troubleshooting, performance tuning, deployment, recovery, and collaboration with DBA and infrastructure teams.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database, including Oracle 10g through current versions.

• Advanced expertise in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, including packages, procedures, functions, triggers, views, materialized views, dynamic SQL, collections, bulk processing, exception handling, and database APIs.

• Extensive experience debugging and troubleshooting complex SQL and PL/SQL code in development, test, and production environments.

• Demonstrated ability to:

• Analyze existing database code and business logic.

• Identify defects, data issues, and performance bottlenecks.

• Rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing scripts.

• Develop and maintain operational and production-support scripts.

• Create ad hoc queries for data analysis, reporting, reconciliation, validation, and issue resolution.

• Strong experience maintaining and supporting data feeds and system integrations, including:

• Apache NiFi data flows and endpoints.

• AWS services, interfaces, and endpoints.

• APIs and service-based integrations.

• File-based data transfers and batch interfaces.

• Upstream and downstream application dependencies.

• Data validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and feed monitoring.

• Experience diagnosing data-feed and integration failures by tracing issues across database objects, PL/SQL processes, NiFi flows, AWS endpoints, files, APIs, and dependent systems.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning, including execution-plan analysis, optimizer statistics, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, locking, concurrency, and wait-event analysis.

• Experience using Oracle diagnostic and performance tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.

• Experience supporting high-volume data processing, batch jobs, ETL workflows, data conversion, data migration, and data-reconciliation processes.

• Working knowledge of database application design, data modeling, schema development, and database object management sufficient to maintain and enhance scalable, reliable database solutions.

• Experience deploying SQL, PL/SQL, schema, and configuration changes through structured development, testing, validation, and production-release processes.

• Familiarity with source control, code review, release documentation, rollback planning, and automated or repeatable database deployment practices.

• Complementary Oracle database administration experience, including working knowledge of:

• Oracle RAC.

• RMAN backup and recovery.

• Oracle Data Guard.

• Database security, roles, privileges, and auditing.

• Tablespaces, storage, sessions, locks, and database-object management.

• Production monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and recovery procedures.

Primary Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve complex SQL, PL/SQL, data, and production-processing issues.

• Review, rewrite, refactor, and optimize existing SQL and PL/SQL scripts.

• Develop ad hoc queries and scripts to support investigations, reporting, reconciliation, data correction, and operational requests.

• Maintain and enhance PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, and database interfaces.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain data feeds involving Oracle, Apache NiFi, AWS endpoints, APIs, files, and connected applications.

• Investigate failed or incomplete data flows and coordinate resolution across database, integration, application, and infrastructure teams.

• Perform data validation and root-cause analysis to identify discrepancies between source and target systems.

• Support application releases, database deployments, production incidents, and post-deployment validation.

• Tune SQL and PL/SQL workloads to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Partner with Oracle DBAs on database configuration, RAC, recovery, Data Guard, security, performance, and environment-related issues.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, deployment instructions, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

• Active CompTIA Security+ certification

• Experience with Oracle Exadata, Database Vault, Label Security, and large-scale data migration is highly desirable.

• Ability to work effectively with developers, database administrators, application owners, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and upstream and downstream integration partners.

• Must be an independent, analytical, and detail-oriented contributor with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage production issues and competing priorities.