Senior Database & Data Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Database & Data Platform Engineer

• Duration: 12-month contract

• Focus: Database modernization, data-platform services, ETL/ELT pipelines, and observability for customer apps and analytics

Description

Design, modernize, and operate database and data-platform capabilities for customer applications and analytics platforms. You will build and optimize reliable relational data services (schemas, queries, stored procedures, indexes) and production ETL/ELT pipelines for enterprise-to-platform data integration. You’ll also improve data quality, monitoring, observability, and automation while collaborating with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design database architecture for CAE, Mission Control, and related SPT applications

• Build and optimize schemas, queries, stored procedures, indexes, and data models

• Develop ETL/ELT pipelines between enterprise systems and customer platforms

• Standardize database application APIs and reusable data services

• Troubleshoot database performance, reliability, and scalability issues

• Support migration and modernization, including SQL-to-PostgreSQL workloads

• Collaborate with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers

• Improve data quality, monitoring, observability, and automation

Requirements

• Advanced SQL expertise and hands-on PostgreSQL experience

• Strong knowledge of relational database design, architecture, schemas, normalization, indexing, and query optimization

• Experience developing ETL/ELT processes and production data pipelines

• Experience with API-based data integration and integrating multiple enterprise data sources

• Python experience for data processing and automation

• Demonstrated performance tuning and troubleshooting skills

• Experience handling large-volume data and developing data models

Benefits

• 12-month contract role in a data-platform modernization and operations capacity

• W2 only