Database Engineer (Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly to start Clearance Required) at North Point Technology
Herndon, VA
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Aug 7, 2026
Herndon, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A database engineering and administration role embedded in an Agile Scrum team supporting a large-scale geospatial intelligence data management program for national security. Day-to-day work spans Oracle database development, stored procedure implementation, patching, high-availability configuration, and operational DBA support for systems serving intelligence analysts across global locations. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
Senior level · TS/SCI clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 8, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Work location is not specified in the posting — no city, state, or remote status is mentioned. Given the national security / intelligence community context and the TS/SCI + Full Scope Polygraph requirement, the role is almost certainly on-site at a cleared facility, but the specific location cannot be determined from the text.
The role blends database administration (operations, patching, high-availability) with database engineering/development (stored procedures, requirements verification), making it a genuine toss-up between DBA (15-1242) and Database Architect (15-1243); 15-1242 was chosen because operational support and administration are explicitly called out as primary responsibilities.
Jira and Confluence are listed together as examples of Agile/Scrum tooling under Required Skills; Confluence is captured as an alternative to Jira since the posting treats them as a paired example of the same requirement rather than two independent gates.
Oracle stored procedures appear in both the Responsibilities narrative and the Preferred Skills section; they are marked preferred, consistent with their placement under 'Preferred Skills/Experience'.
The Full Scope Polygraph requirement is a significant additional gate beyond a standard TS/SCI — this will substantially narrow the eligible candidate pool.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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