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Mid – Senior Level Database Engineer

Belay Technologies
Full Timesenior
Towson, Maryland, US$125k – $150kPosted February 18, 2026

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Job Description

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal’s (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!Belay Technologies is seeking a Database Engineer to join our intel team. The selected individual will support a complex system with exacting interface, performance, and security requirements, and will provide database engineering expertise in one or more of the following areas: architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design/implementation, testing, and documentation. She/he will analyze user requirements and system requirements specifications and will develop system architecture and system design documentation. She/he will support the development of system configuration documentation, including designs for capacity and performance planning. The selected individual will perform database engineering activities to include risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns. She/he will provide solutions to challenging technical problems in distributed data replication, concurrent data access, and high availability.Primary ResponsibilitiesThe selected individual will provide guidance and support for database engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components. She/he will interface with technical managers, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment. The selected candidate will be responsible for implementing database engineering practices to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks. She/he will be responsible for communicating with and effectively collaborating with internal technical professionals on a day-to-day basis, and with POCs from customer organizations when necessary. The selected individual will actively participate in Program Increment Planning and related Agile team activities. Assigned duties may include:Supporting database design, development, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow, and analysis activitiesSupporting the analysis and evaluation of system improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance effortsSupporting the development of long-term and short-term requirements for database administration and designAssisting in developing databases, database parser software, and database loading softwareTranslating requirements and data into usable database schemas by creating or recreating ad hoc queries, scripts and macros, making updates to existing queries, and creating new queries to manipulate data into a master fileAssisting in the development of database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under developmentDeveloping requirement recommendations from a project’s inception to its conclusion for a particular Business and IT subject matter area (i.e. simple to complex systems)Developing database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under developmentCandidates should have the following qualificationsTS/SCI Clearance with polygraphBachelor’s degree in a technical disciplineExperience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology and/or as a member of an Agile teamExperience with CassandraExperience with MongoDBBasic QualificationsMust have at least 10 years of high-level, in-depth, dedicated database experienceMust have in-depth experience as a Database Administrator to include proficiency in tasks such as data migration, data replication, user administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, issue investigation, issue resolution, and general administrationMust have a solid understanding of databases, primarily Oracle and/or other relational and non-relational/No SQL databases such as Postgre SQL and MongoDBMust have experience using Oracle SQL/PLSQL, and SQL in generalMust have experience scripting with JavaScript, Bash/Linux shell scripting (in general), Perl, and/or PythonMust have knowledge of…

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