About the role
Red Arch Solutions is 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.
Basic Qualifications: * 10+ years of experience developing and supporting enterprise solutions using Oracle Database. * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience. * Active CompTIA Security+ certification * Experience with Oracle Exadata, Database Vault, Label Security, and large-scale data migration is highly desirable. * Ability to work effectively with developers, database administrators, application owners, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and upstream and downstream integration partners. * Must be an independent, analytical, and detail-oriented contributor with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage production issues and competing priorities. * TS/SCI w/ polygraph required.
Required Skills: * 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.
Primary 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.
Salary range for this position: $190,000-$220,000 #CJ