We are 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.
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
Requirements- TS/SCI FSP Clearance
- 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
