Black & Grey HR is recruiting for a leading technology solutions and services provider in Doha Qatar. Our client is looking to hire a Lead Systems Architect who will be responsible for the design implementation management and optimization of enterprise-grade database platforms across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities:
Database Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain enterprise database architecture standards and roadmaps for on-premises Azure and GCP environments.
- Design secure scalable and highly available database architectures for mission-critical systems.
- Conduct architectural reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Technical Leadership & Team Development
- Lead mentor and develop senior database engineers and DBAs.
- Allocate resources set technical direction and enforce operational best practices.
- Foster a culture of reliability automation documentation and continuous improvement.
Database Project Lifecycle Management
- Lead end-to-end database projects from requirements and design through build migration go-live and support.
- Manage hybrid and multi-cloud database migrations and modernization initiatives.
- Deliver solutions within defined scope schedule and quality standards.
Platform & Technology Management
- Manage and operate SQL and NoSQL platforms across on-premises Azure and GCP.
- Oversee native cloud database services including Azure SQL Azure Managed Instance Azure Fabric and Google Cloud database offerings.
- Administer complex high-scale and performance-intensive SQL environments.
High Availability Disaster Recovery & Integration
- Design and operate highly available disaster-resilient database architectures in hybrid and multi-cloud setups.
- Ensure seamless integration across applications data platforms and analytics systems.
- Define and test backup recovery replication and failover strategies.
Data Warehouse & Data Leak Management
- Manage enhance and operate enterprise data warehouses and data leaks.
- Ensure platforms are highly available optimized and aligned with analytics and reporting needs.
- Drive performance tuning capacity planning and cost optimization.
Operations Monitoring & Performance
- Ensure 24x7 reliability through proactive monitoring and management of all database environments.
- Define KPIs SLAs and operational dashboards for performance availability and capacity.
- Lead root cause analysis and continuous service improvement initiatives.
Security Risk & Compliance
- Define and enforce database security standards access controls encryption and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security privacy and regulatory requirements.
- Lead vulnerability management patching and security hardening efforts.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
- Serve as the primary technical interface for application teams architects vendors and business users.
- Translate business requirements into robust scalable database solutions.
- Provide clear technical guidance documentation presentations and executive-level communication as needed.
Requirements
Experience
- 10 years in database engineering architecture and operations within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Proven experience leading senior database engineers/DBAs in mission-critical settings.
- Strong hands-on and architectural expertise with on-premises hybrid and multi-cloud platforms (Azure & GCP).
- Demonstrated success leading end-to-end database projects including migrations and modernization efforts.
- Extensive background in high availability disaster recovery performance tuning and large-scale SQL environments.
- Solid experience with data warehouse and data lake platforms and operations.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.
- Relevant professional certifications are highly desirable such as:
Microsoft Azure Database/Data/Architect certifications
Google Cloud Professional Database Engineer or Architect
ITIL or equivalent service management certification
Technical Expertise
- Advanced proficiency in SQL Server and enterprise-grade SQL platforms.
- Strong experience with Azure SQL Azure Managed Instance Azure Fabric and related Azure data services.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud database services.
- Deep knowledge of database security encryption auditing and compliance controls.
- Proven skills in monitoring automation performance tuning and capacity management.
- Strong understanding of integration patterns analytics platforms and data pipelines.
- Excellent communication documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.
Experience - 10 years in database engineering architecture and operations within large-scale enterprise environments. - Proven experience leading senior database engineers/DBAs in mission-critical settings. - Strong hands-on and architectural expertise with on-premises hybrid and multi-cloud platforms (Azure & GCP). - Demonstrated success leading end-to-end database projects including migrations and modernization efforts. - Extensive background in high availability disaster recovery performance tuning and large-scale SQL environments. - Solid experience with data warehouse and data lake platforms and operations. Education & Certifications - Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. - Relevant professional certifications are highly desirable such as: Microsoft Azure Database/Data/Architect certifications Google Cloud Professional Database Engineer or Architect ITIL or equivalent service management certification Technical Expertise - Advanced proficiency in SQL Server and enterprise-grade SQL platforms. - Strong experience with Azure SQL Azure Managed Instance Azure Fabric and related Azure data services. - Hands-on experience with Google Cloud database services. - Deep knowledge of database security encryption auditing and compliance controls. - Proven skills in monitoring automation performance tuning and capacity management. - Strong understanding of integration patterns analytics platforms and data pipelines. - Excellent communication documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.