ME00670-Database Engineer 3 at Momentum Engineering, Inc.
Glen Burnie, MD
$180,000–$240,000
Aug 8, 2026
Glen Burnie, MD
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Database Engineer role supporting national security programs through the full system development lifecycle — from architecture and requirements definition through acceptance testing and initial operational capability. The work centers on designing, administering, and optimizing Oracle database environments on Linux, with responsibilities spanning schema development, performance tuning, high availability, backup/recovery, and scripting. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
Senior level · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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 10, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role blends database administration (operations, patching, backup/recovery, tuning) with database engineering/architecture (schema design, data modeling, requirements definition), making it a genuine toss-up between 15-1242 Database Administrators and 15-1243 Database Architects. 15-1242 was chosen as primary because the day-to-day operational duties (install, configure, patch, monitor, backup, recovery, replication) are described in equal or greater depth than the design work.
Location is not stated in the posting; the NSA Full Scope Polygraph requirement strongly implies a National Capital Region / Fort Meade, MD area placement, but no city or state is explicitly named so the metro field is left blank.
Salary is described only as dependent on experience with no figures given; no compensation range is extractable.
ODBC appears in both the responsibilities narrative and the Desired Qualifications section; it is treated as preferred since its only explicit placement under a requirements heading is in the desired block.
'Relational database design' is retained as a skill because the posting gates on it explicitly ('Strong experience with relational database design, schema development, and data modeling') — schema development and data modeling are aspects of the same named capability rather than separate tool names.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): relational database design.
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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