Database Developer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Database Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.  We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.  We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE ROLE

• The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high quality software-based solutions for their clients. The ideal candidate will be passionate about software engineering, have a strong background in software development, as well as experience working in a collaborative agile environment.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 15 years of experience in software engineering
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Oracle, PostgreSQL and modern database technologies.
• Demonstrated experience performing testing and quality assurance of developed solutions within the existing Oracle data tier.
• Demonstrated experience developing, creating, and modifying data structure and data load routines for analytic use cases.
• Demonstrated experience working with relational data tiers including cleansing, transforming and processing of structured data.
• Demonstrated experience working with views, triggers and Oracle PL/SQL.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Amazon Web Services environments, including RDS, S3, notification/alert services, etc.
• Demonstrated experience working within an Agile project management model and approved Project Management Frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience aligning data architecture with enterprise strategy and architectures that integrate and improve the quality of enterprise data.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience as agile scrum master and agile development team member.
• Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services/Cloud Data Migration Services.
• Demonstrated experience with JIRA.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating and presenting technical information with Sponsor staff, IT customers, and other technical and non-technical staff and contractors at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience with a variety of data repository types (i.e., relational, NoSQL, distributed processing framework, etc.).

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.