Database Architect (SME)

DecisionPoint seeks a Database Architect to provide SME-level leadership for enterprise database architecture, operations, technical standards, performance, availability, recovery, security, and modernization supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. 

This position will guide the design and operation of reliable database environments, with an emphasis on Microsoft SQL Server. The Database Architect will resolve complex technical issues, establish consistent engineering and administration practices, oversee recovery readiness, and develop the capabilities of database administrators. 

The architect will collaborate with Government stakeholders, data engineers, application teams, infrastructure personnel, cybersecurity specialists, and program leadership to ensure database services support mission operations, data analysis, and warehouse requirements. 

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. 

The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements: 

• →Active Secret clearance or higher. 

• →Minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience. 

• →Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, database management, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent. 

• →Experience with enterprise database architecture. 

• →Experience with Microsoft SQL Server. 

• →Experience implementing or supporting database high availability. 

• →Experience with database backup, restoration, and recovery. 

• →Experience with database security. 

• →Experience planning or implementing database modernization. 

• →Ability to lead database operations and establish technical standards. 

• →Ability to oversee database performance, resolve complex technical issues, and guide database administrator development. 

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required: 

• Relevant database platform certification. 

• CISSP certification, with alignment to the proposed DoD 8570 IASAE Level II qualification preference. 

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense database environments. 

• Experience with SQL Server Always On availability groups, failover clustering, replication, or comparable availability technologies. 

• Experience planning and executing database migrations, major upgrades, and platform transitions. 

• Familiarity with cloud-hosted databases, managed database services, and hybrid architectures. 

• Experience supporting data warehouses, ETL/ELT processes, analytical workloads, or AI-ready data platforms. 

• Experience automating database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and recovery tasks. 

• Experience conducting recovery exercises and validating recovery objectives. 

• Strong technical mentoring, architecture documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills. 

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.