Database Engineer — 4D & Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration at Coforma
North Bethesda, MD
$119,768–$149,216
Jun 29, 2026
North Bethesda, MD
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A fully remote database engineering role centered on consolidating two legacy production systems — a proprietary 4D application database and an Oracle database — into a single PostgreSQL platform. The work spans reverse-engineering underdocumented source schemas, building automated ETL pipelines, validating data parity, and planning a clean cutover. Suited to engineers with end-to-end production database migration experience and strong PostgreSQL and SQL skills.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $119,768–$149,216
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1,050–3,750
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $139,500 (middle half $109,370–$169,290). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is contingent on Coforma receiving a contract award — candidates should be aware the position may not open.
The title carries no seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the scope (end-to-end migration ownership, reverse-engineering undocumented systems, stakeholder communication) and the depth of required experience support a Senior classification.
SOC is Medium-confidence: the role is primarily about designing and building the target PostgreSQL schema and migration architecture (15-1243 Database Architects), but it also involves hands-on pipeline engineering and could reasonably be read as 15-1242 Database Administrators; 15-1243 was chosen because schema design and migration strategy are the stated core.
4D database experience is explicitly called out as rare and not required — the posting states the company will train the right engineer on 4D specifics — so it is listed as preferred.
ora2pg and AWS DMS appear together as interchangeable migration tooling options under the 'Strongly Preferred' section.
Terraform and AWS CDK appear together as interchangeable IaC options under the 'Strongly Preferred' section.
The '3 years of experience working with APIs and databases' and '3 years building applications with open-source languages' requirements appear under the 'Strongly Preferred, But Not Required' heading, so they are treated as preferred rather than hard gates; no per-skill years demanded was set from them.
The posted salary range has a minor discrepancy: the description header states '$119,768 – $149,216' while the tier detail states '$149,215.80'; the header figure ($149,216 rounded) was used for the top of the pay band.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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