Senior Database Management Specialist

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related scientific or technical field, or three years of equivalent experience in a related field
• At least six years of experience in DBMS systems analysis and programming
• At least three years of specialized experience with current DBMS technologies, database application design, and DBMS internals
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, database architecture, schema design, indexing, query optimization, data security, and data integrity
• Experience developing and maintaining database backup, recovery, and security procedures
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams, developers, GIS professionals, business stakeholders, and end users
• Preferred: At least three years of recent experience administering enterprise GIS databases and geospatial systems for a public-safety organization
• Preferred: Hands-on experience with supported ArcGIS Pro versions, including spatial editing and analysis, geoprocessing, cartographic production, data conversion, coordinate-system management, and quality assurance
• Preferred: Experience administering enterprise geodatabases on SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or comparable platforms, including schema design, feature classes, domains, subtypes, topology, versioned editing, permissions, performance monitoring, migrations, backup and recovery, and integrity controls
• Preferred: Experience supporting ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online, including services, web maps, applications, user roles, sharing permissions, and organizational GIS content
• Preferred: Experience with GIS automation, integration, or data-transformation tools such as Python, ArcPy, ModelBuilder, SQL, REST APIs, or FME
• Preferred: Experience maintaining mission-critical public-safety GIS data, including addresses, street centerlines, jurisdictional boundaries, response areas, geocoding, routing, and location-validation data
• Preferred: At least one year of direct experience supporting GIS components and integrations for law-enforcement or public-safety CAD, RMS, and mobile-computing environments, including interface troubleshooting, dispatch mapping, geocoding, routing, mobile map delivery, application incidents, and vendor issues

Responsibilities:

• Administer, design, implement, and maintain database management systems, providing advanced technical expertise
• Evaluate and recommend DBMS products and technologies to meet user requirements, application needs, and organizational objectives
• Design and maintain database structures, including file organization, indexes, schemas, relationships, and access controls
• Develop and maintain database backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures, along with security controls
• Protect data integrity, consistency, security, availability, and recoverability across applications and processing environments
• Administer enterprise GIS databases and geospatial systems used by public-safety organizations
• Use ArcGIS Pro for spatial-data editing and analysis, geoprocessing, cartography, data conversion, coordinate-system management, and quality assurance
• Administer enterprise geodatabases on SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or comparable relational platforms
• Configure and maintain geodatabase schemas, feature classes, domains, subtypes, topology, versioned editing workflows, permissions, and integrity controls
• Monitor database performance and capacity, troubleshoot issues, and optimize queries, indexing, storage, and overall performance
• Coordinate database migrations, upgrades, backup and recovery activities, and structural or configuration changes
• Support ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online, including map and feature services, web maps, applications, organizational content, user roles, and sharing permissions
• Develop and maintain GIS automation, integration, and data-transformation processes using Python, ArcPy, ModelBuilder, SQL, REST APIs, FME, or comparable tools
• Maintain critical public-safety GIS datasets, including addresses, street centerlines, common-place locations, boundaries, response areas, map layers, geocoding, routing, and location-validation data
• Validate geospatial data for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and compatibility with enterprise applications and operational needs
• Support GIS integrations with CAD, RMS, and mobile-computing environments, including dispatch mapping, geocoding, routing, mobile map delivery, and interface troubleshooting
• Investigate and resolve database, GIS application, integration, and data-quality incidents with technical teams and software vendors
• Maintain database documentation, data dictionaries, schema definitions, security configurations, operating procedures, and recovery plans
• Work with developers, GIS analysts, database administrators, and end users to turn business requirements into database and geospatial solutions
• Recommend improvements to database architecture, automation, data governance, security, performance, and operational reliability

Technologies:

• GIS
• Support
• Mobile
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• REST
• SQL
• Security
• Web

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We are seeking a Senior Database Management Specialist to support the Statewide Agile Resources and Teams 2024 contract. This is a W2-only, onsite role in Baltimore, Maryland, and candidates must be local. The position supports enterprise GIS databases and geospatial systems in public-safety environments, collaborating with GIS professionals, developers, database administrators, public-safety stakeholders, and software vendors.

last updated 43 week of 2026