Senior Database Architect

Our Company

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Were on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Database Architect with strong understanding of data security to take ownership of designing upgrading and securing the data architecture of our cloudbased SaaS platform. We are looking for a candidate with a expert level knowledge of database design data governance and security standard methodologies.

What You Need to Succeed

• Database Architecture & Design:
  • Design scalable highly available and secure data architectures.
  • Model complex data flows and relationships using best practices in normalization/denormalization.
  • Define and maintain enterprise data standards schemas and metadata.
• Performance & Scalability:
  • Analyze and tune SQL queries and database performance.
  • Plan capacity and implement sharding partitioning and indexing strategies.
• Security & Compliance:
  • Implement robust security models (e.g. RBAC encryption at rest/in transit).
  • Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g. GDPR HIPAA SOC2.
• Disaster Recovery & High Availability:
  • Design and maintain HA/DR strategies using replication clustering and backup plans.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure RTO/RPO requirements are met.
• Tooling & Automation:
  • Use IaC (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD for provisioning and deployment of DBs.
  • Automate monitoring alerting and failover.
• Collaboration:
  • Work closely with Application Architects Security Teams DevOps and Business Analysts.
  • Provide guidance to developers on best practices for schema design and data access patterns.
• Technology Stack:
  • Databases:MySQL (preferred) PostgreSQL SQL Oracle MongoDB
  • Cloud Platforms:AWS (RDS Aurora) Azure (SQL Database) GCP (Cloud SQL)
  • Tools:Flyway Liquibase Terraform Datadog Grafana Prometheus
  • Languages:SQL Python Shell scripting

Soft Skills

• Strong problemsolving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication for crossfunctional collaboration.
• Leadership in guiding database governance and architecture reviews.

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