Senior Database Developer

Overview:

General Dynamics Electric Boat is the world's foremost designer and builder of nuclear submarines, the most complex machines made by man. The company's industry leadership extends back over a century to 1899 when it produced the U.S. Navy's first commissioned undersea warship. Today, Electric Boat prides itself on being the premier shipbuilding company in the industry. We develop and apply state of the art technology to the design and construction of nuclear-powered submarines. With a team of highly skilled and dedicated employees, we have successfully taken submarine technology to a new level.

Job Description:

The Sr. Database Developer is responsible for the overall development and maintenance of information databases used to operate the infrastructure and technology platform. In this role, you'll be responsible for the evolution of data, including designing and streamlining our data operations and maintaining our database to ensure peak performance. You'll also be the connection between our engineers, scientists, and all of our systems and data, acting as the gatekeeper between departmental ideas and execution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Partner with development teams to design data management and governance protocols, manage the information lifecycle, design infrastructure, and data integration controls
• Understanding business strategy and cascades business intelligence needs to the database level
• Design, configure, implement, and administer all databases for the respective parties involved
• Develop and maintain complex models and logical database designs
• Identify and resolve all issues related to database systems to ensure that systems are online and without service interruption
• Build and manage the database disaster recovery and backup plan
• Can create and maintain stored procedures, views, tables, jobs, triggers etc.

Required:

• Bachelors of Science degree in a Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Information Technology.
• 10+ years in IT service field
• Proficient with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)

• Experience in designing and implementing database structures
• Experience with automating DBA tasks
• Experience with data modeling and schema design
• Experience with Cloud-based DB solutions is a plus
• Experience with all versions of MS SQL Server, MySQL
• Experience with additional RDBMS
• Experience with database Server backup and recovery techniques
• Proven experience in maintenance of SQL Server, MySQL
• Proven experience using Transact SQL, Stored Procedure and UDF
• Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems
• Demonstrated experience in tuning database and its objects
• Understanding of databases indexes
• Understanding of database design practices, including database normalization concepts