Mid-Level SQL Engineer

If youve been building your skills in SQL data engineering fundamentals and missiondriven development and youre ready for work that actually moves the needle this is the kind of opportunity cleared engineers pursue when they want to grow while making real impact. If you take pride in your craft enjoy solving meaningful data problems and want your work to support a mission with visibility at senior levels youll thrive here.

Were hiring a SQL Engineer to support a highvisibility datadriven application that powers analytics and reporting across the this role youll write complex queries shape data for dashboards ensure data accuracy and deliver reliable datasets that stakeholders depend on every day. Youll work closely with dashboard developers and application teams to provide clean consistent and easytoconsume data for mission users. Our primary development team operates out of Gaithersburg MD but innovation doesnt stop there. Were able to support onsite engineers in Alexandria VA; Chantilly VA; Aurora CO; St. Louis MO; and Tucson AZ giving top talent multiple paths to join the mission.

And while the requisition requirements may seem standard fare the position is not; as it will join a high performing team that is changing the way digital engineering and mission operations intelligence is enabled for our customer.

Why This Role Stands Out

• High Impact: Your work directly supports a widely used application that drives real-time decision-making
• High Visibility: Partner with engineering teams and key stakeholders across programs
• Career Growth: Expand your expertise in large-scale data systems performance optimization and advanced SQL engineering
• Challenging Work: Tackle complex data problems not routine queries

Essential Responsibilities

• SQL Development:Write complex SQL queries involving joins aggregations filtering subqueries and window functions to support dashboards
• Data Shaping for Visualization:Structure query outputs in a way that is optimized for dashboard consumption (clear naming grouping formatting)
• Dashboard Support:Partner with dashboard developers to define and deliver the data required for visualizations and reporting
• Data Validation:Ensure accuracy consistency and completeness of datasets used in dashboards
• Query Performance:Identify inefficient queries and make basic improvements to support responsive dashboards
• Requirements Translation:Translate dashboard and reporting requirements into effective SQL queries

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering or related field with 48 years of experience; or Masters with 26 years
• US Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI with ability to successfully pass a Polygraph
• Strong SQL skills including the ability to write advanced queries (joins aggregations subqueries window functions)
• Experience working with enterprise relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle etc.)
• Background supporting analytics dashboards or reporting pipelines
• Comfortable working in Linuxbased environments
• Proven ability to work independently on datacentric tasks and ensure data quality

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience withGrafana Tableau or similar visualization tools
• Exposure toCI/CD pipelines
• Experience working inAgile environments

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If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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