Principal Database Product Architect

This role needs to sit clearly above a senior DBA and own product architecture strategy and crosscloud patterns. Below is a Principal Database Product Architect description built from your Oracle Core DBA role.

Job title

Principal Database Product Architect

Role overview

The Principal Database Product Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving the endtoend architecture roadmap and strategy for Oraclebased and multicloud database products and services. The role builds on deep Oracle core DBA expertise (10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai) and largescale migration experience expanding it into platform design productization and reusable solutions across OCI GCP Azure and AWS. This architect will partner closely with product management cloud and application architects offering/build teams and operations to ensure the database product portfolio is scalable secure and differentiated for enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and roadmap for database products and services covering onpremises OCI and other public clouds (GCP Azure AWS).
• Translate business and customer requirements into productlevel architecture standardized blueprints and reference implementations for Oraclebased data platforms.
• Define patterns and frameworks for database migrations and modernization using GoldenGate Data Guard RMAN ASM ZDM and snapshot standby to achieve minimal/zero downtime at scale.
• Design highly available resilient and secure architectures leveraging ASM OEM Data Guard and multiregion/multiAZ deployments for missioncritical workloads.
• Establish platform standards for performance capacity planning observability backup/DR and security for large enterprise databases and DBaaS offerings.
• Architect cloudnative database solutions on OCI and other hyperscalers including network storage (FSS Storage Gateway) security automation and integration patterns.
• Lead architecture for Fusion Applications and DBaaS platforms ensuring consistent designs SLAs and operational models across environments.
• Collaborate with product management and offering/build teams to define new database services enhancements SKU designs and gotomarket technical differentiators.
• Provide architectural governance: review solution designs perform design authority signoffs and maintain architectural decision records and standards.
• Guide adoption of automation IaC and CI/CD for database provisioning configuration patching and compliance across clouds.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex performance availability and data protection issues; drive root cause analysis and longterm architectural fixes.
• Mentor senior DBAs and solution architects building a strong community of practice around database and data platform architecture.
• Support presales and strategic customer engagements by presenting solution architectures migration approaches and value propositions to senior stakeholders.

Required skills and qualifications

• Experience: 1215 years in Oracle database engineering/administration including substantial experience as a senior/lead DBA in enterprise environments plus proven architecture or product/platform ownership.
• Technical expertise:
• Deep expertise across Oracle 10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai internals HA backup/restore and performance tuning.
• Handson experience architecting and executing enterprisescale migrations using GoldenGate Data Guard RMAN ASM ZDM and snapshot standby.
• Strong background in capacity planning database performance engineering and designing for high throughput low latency and predictable SLAs.
• Solid understanding of Oracle Fusion Apps DBaaS concepts and multitenant and sharedinfrastructure designs.
• Cloud experience:
• 3 years designing and implementing database architectures on OCI and at least one of GCP Azure or AWS (e.g. managed DB services liftandshift and modernization patterns).
• Experience integrating databases with cloud networking security storage (including OCI FSS and Storage Gateway) and observability stacks.
• Architecture and product skills:
• Demonstrated ability to create reference architectures patterns and reusable building blocks for database solutions.
• Experience influencing product roadmaps or service offerings including tradeoff analysis (cost risk performance timetomarket).
• Strong understanding of security compliance and governance for enterprise data platforms.
• Certifications (preferred):
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations.
• Oracle Database Administrator certification (12c or later).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent cloud certifications.

Soft skills

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to present complex architectures to both technical and executive audiences.
• Strong leadership facilitation and stakeholder management skills across global crossfunctional teams.
• Proactive exploratory mindset with a track record of learning and evaluating new technologies and patterns.
• Ability to work independently make highimpact architectural decisions and drive consensus across multiple teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing or supporting databasecentric offerings managed services or catalogbased DBaaS products.
• Exposure to presales solution design RFP/RFI responses and direct customer architecture workshops.
• Experience administering or architecting additional RDBMS platforms (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL PostgreSQL) in heterogeneous or migration scenarios.

Why join us

• Lead the architecture of nextgeneration database products and services across OCI and major public clouds.
• Influence strategy and design in a collaborative highimpact global team working on missioncritical enterprise workloads.
• Access continuous learning advanced certifications and clear growth paths into distinguished architect or product/engineering leadership roles.
• Work handson with the latest Oracle and cloud capabilities shaping reusable blueprints used across multiple customers and regions.

This role needs to sit clearly above a senior DBA and own product architecture strategy and crosscloud patterns. Below is a Principal Database Product Architect description built from your Oracle Core DBA role.

Job title

Principal Database Product Architect

Role overview

The Principal Database Product Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving the endtoend architecture roadmap and strategy for Oraclebased and multicloud database products and services. The role builds on deep Oracle core DBA expertise (10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai) and largescale migration experience expanding it into platform design productization and reusable solutions across OCI GCP Azure and AWS. This architect will partner closely with product management cloud and application architects offering/build teams and operations to ensure the database product portfolio is scalable secure and differentiated for enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and roadmap for database products and services covering onpremises OCI and other public clouds (GCP Azure AWS).
• Translate business and customer requirements into productlevel architecture standardized blueprints and reference implementations for Oraclebased data platforms.
• Define patterns and frameworks for database migrations and modernization using GoldenGate Data Guard RMAN ASM ZDM and snapshot standby to achieve minimal/zero downtime at scale.
• Design highly available resilient and secure architectures leveraging ASM OEM Data Guard and multiregion/multiAZ deployments for missioncritical workloads.
• Establish platform standards for performance capacity planning observability backup/DR and security for large enterprise databases and DBaaS offerings.
• Architect cloudnative database solutions on OCI and other hyperscalers including network storage (FSS Storage Gateway) security automation and integration patterns.
• Lead architecture for Fusion Applications and DBaaS platforms ensuring consistent designs SLAs and operational models across environments.
• Collaborate with product management and offering/build teams to define new database services enhancements SKU designs and gotomarket technical differentiators.
• Provide architectural governance: review solution designs perform design authority signoffs and maintain architectural decision records and standards.
• Guide adoption of automation IaC and CI/CD for database provisioning configuration patching and compliance across clouds.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex performance availability and data protection issues; drive root cause analysis and longterm architectural fixes.
• Mentor senior DBAs and solution architects building a strong community of practice around database and data platform architecture.
• Support presales and strategic customer engagements by presenting solution architectures migration approaches and value propositions to senior stakeholders.

Required skills and qualifications

• Experience: 1215 years in Oracle database engineering/administration including substantial experience as a senior/lead DBA in enterprise environments plus proven architecture or product/platform ownership.
• Technical expertise:
• Deep expertise across Oracle 10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai internals HA backup/restore and performance tuning.
• Handson experience architecting and executing enterprisescale migrations using GoldenGate Data Guard RMAN ASM ZDM and snapshot standby.
• Strong background in capacity planning database performance engineering and designing for high throughput low latency and predictable SLAs.
• Solid understanding of Oracle Fusion Apps DBaaS concepts and multitenant and sharedinfrastructure designs.
• Cloud experience:
• 3 years designing and implementing database architectures on OCI and at least one of GCP Azure or AWS (e.g. managed DB services liftandshift and modernization patterns).
• Experience integrating databases with cloud networking security storage (including OCI FSS and Storage Gateway) and observability stacks.
• Architecture and product skills:
• Demonstrated ability to create reference architectures patterns and reusable building blocks for database solutions.
• Experience influencing product roadmaps or service offerings including tradeoff analysis (cost risk performance timetomarket).
• Strong understanding of security compliance and governance for enterprise data platforms.
• Certifications (preferred):
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations.
• Oracle Database Administrator certification (12c or later).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent cloud certifications.

Soft skills

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to present complex architectures to both technical and executive audiences.
• Strong leadership facilitation and stakeholder management skills across global crossfunctional teams.
• Proactive exploratory mindset with a track record of learning and evaluating new technologies and patterns.
• Ability to work independently make highimpact architectural decisions and drive consensus across multiple teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing or supporting databasecentric offerings managed services or catalogbased DBaaS products.
• Exposure to presales solution design RFP/RFI responses and direct customer architecture workshops.
• Experience administering or architecting additional RDBMS platforms (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL PostgreSQL) in heterogeneous or migration scenarios.

Why join us

• Lead the architecture of nextgeneration database products and services across OCI and major public clouds.
• Influence strategy and design in a collaborative highimpact global team working on missioncritical enterprise workloads.
• Access continuous learning advanced certifications and clear growth paths into distinguished architect or product/engineering leadership roles.
• Work handson with the latest Oracle and cloud capabilities shaping reusable blueprints used across multiple customers and regions.

Career Level - IC4