Senior Database Management Specialist

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Job Title : Senior Database Management Specialist

Duration : March 02 2026 June 30 2026 (with option to renew through June 30 2028)

Location : Baltimore MD 21202

Position Type : Contract

Interview Type : Phone / Internet or In-Person (as determined by MHBE)

Ceipal ID : SMDSQL926SN

Job Code : MD78SeniorDatabaseManagementSpecialist RFR020926

End Client : Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MHBE)

Department : MHBE Information Technology

Scope of Project

The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MHBE) an independent unit of state government administers Maryland Health Connection (MHC) the states health insurance marketplace. MHBE seeks one (1) Senior Database Management Specialist to design develop optimize administer govern and maintain complex databases and provide various database operational support services for HBX and other systems.

Primary work location will be 750 East Pratt Street 6th Floor Baltimore MD 21202.

The candidate may be required to work on-site or remotely on specific days as determined by MHBE.

Responsibilities :

Design develop and maintain complex enterprise databases data lakes and data warehouses.

Design complex database architecture including data modeling database schema design and database security.

Design develop and implement plans for migrating data.

Support implementation of data-centric integrated software hardware cloud and mobile solutions.

Provide database maintenance and operations recommendations for web applications data-sharing initiatives reports and dashboards.

Review and support database integrations for operational and security compliance.

Perform optimization and cost-reduction strategies for database infrastructure and deployments.

Collaborate with application infrastructure and operations teams to automate AWS cloud operations.

Develop standards and scripts to monitor and alert cloud-based systems.

Design develop and support ETL processes across databases data lakes and warehouses.

Monitor database performance troubleshoot errors and debug issues.

Administer HBX databases including monitoring backup recovery and security.

Ensure data quality governance validation rules and metadata management.

Provide data support for unit load end-to-end validation and UAT testing.

Perform PostgreSQL database administration RBAC patch management replication and DR.

Perform PostgreSQL and MongoDB database migrations across data centers and AWS.

Monitor CPU disk memory and space utilization in production databases.

Perform security hardening on PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases.

Analyze performance issues across application and database tiers.

Perform disaster recovery planning testing backup and restore activities.

Perform PostgreSQL maintenance including vacuum full vacuum and analyze.

Perform PostgreSQL and MongoDB upgrades and storage management.

Install and maintain MongoDB databases for high availability.

Develop optimized SQL and NoSQL queries and manage indexes.

Participate in deployment playbooks batch execution and system health monitoring.

Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to implement scalable enterprise architectures.

Adhere to MHBE security change control and PMO policies.

Be flexible to work overtime weekends holidays and off-hours as needed.

Required / Preferred Skills :

Required Skills :

6 years designing and supporting large-scale enterprise databases

PostgreSQL Informatica MongoDB (4 years)

AWS (EC2 AMI CI / CD pipelines)

Tools : Jenkins Bamboo Maven Bitbucket Jira Git

Database performance tuning monitoring and batch optimization

Database migrations and production maintenance

High availability backup recovery and disaster recovery

ETL data modeling data warehousing

Complex SQL and batch performance optimization

Preferred Skills :

Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) / ACA / Integrated Eligibility systems

EDI transactions :

270 / 271 Eligibility transactions

PostgreSQL & MongoDB performance tuning best practices

Corticon rules engine

Analytics tools : Tableau QlikSense Power BI

Data governance metadata and data dictionary development

PMO process experience

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Key Skills

Databases,IT Experience,Presentation Skills,Information Management,SQL,Relational Databases,Microsoft SQL Server,LMS,Postgresql,Database Administration,Oracle,DynamoDB

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1