Database Architect

Database Architect

Location: Hamilton NJ (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months

Interview Type: In Person interview

Designs develops and implements highly complex reliable and scalable databases to meet the organizations objectives and requirements. This is a development position for a Database modeler/developer.

The Database Architect is responsible for designing developing and implementing infrastructure to provide highly-complex reliable and scalable databases to meet the organizations objectives and requirements. Familiar with a variety of the database technologies concepts methodologies practices and procedures and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks with minimal or no direct supervision. Assists in defining system and application architecture and provides vision problem anticipation and problem-solving ability to an organization. Consults with the client to define needs or issues conduct research perform studies and surveys to obtain data and analyze problems to advise on or recommend solutions utilizing knowledge of theory principles or technology of specific discipline or field of specialization.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Extensive knowledge of specific database systems and capable of hands-on work in all phases of database design and management.

Experience in various technologies and roles including database systems of any type and size.

***PLEASE INCLUDE JOB DETAILS TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO THIS REQUISITION***

• Database Architecture & Design (30%)
• Design target SQL Server database architecture
• Experience in working on database conversion
• Design normalized schemas across multiple databases
• Design data partitioning strategy for large tables (50M records)
• Create database security architecture
• Design audit trail and history tracking mechanisms
• Establish backup and recovery architecture
• Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions

Data Migration (25%)

• Develop comprehensive data migration strategy
• Create ETL processes for migrating huge data
• Design and implement data validation procedures
• Ensure zero data loss during migration
• Create data mapping documentation
• Develop rollback and recovery procedures
• Perform data quality assessment and cleansing
• Coordinate with developers on Core integration with the business logic
• Validate referential integrity and relationships
• Create migration scripts and automation
• Performance Optimization (20%)
• Design indexing strategy for optimal performance
• Optimize queries for sub-second response times
• Tune stored procedures and functions
• Implement query optimization techniques
• Monitor and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Design caching strategies
• Optimize batch processing (6-hour window to 4-hour target)
• Implement table partitioning for large tables
• Configure SQL Server for optimal performance
• Conduct performance testing and benchmarking

Database Administration (15%)

• Install configure and maintain SQL Server instances
• Implement security policies and access controls
• Manage database users roles and permissions
• Monitor database health and performance
• Implement backup and recovery procedures
• Perform database maintenance (index rebuilds statistics updates)
• Manage database growth and capacity planning
• Implement monitoring and alerting
• Troubleshoot database issues
• Coordinate with cloud infrastructure team
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery (10%)
• Implement SQL Server Always on Availability Groups
• Configure database replication
• Design and test disaster recovery procedures
• Achieve RPO <1 hour RTO <1 hour (vs. 24 hrs/8 hrs current)
• Implement automated failover mechanisms
• Conduct DR testing and validation
• Document DR procedures and runbooks
• Coordinate with cloud team on multi-region deployment
• Required Qualifications
• Technical Skills (Must Have)

SQL Server Expertise

• 8 years of SQL Server administration experience
• Expert knowledge of SQL Server 2019/2022
• Advanced T-SQL programming (stored procedures functions triggers views)
• Query optimization and execution plan analysis
• Index design and optimization
• Database design and normalization (1NF through 5NF)
• SQL Server security and compliance
• Backup and recovery strategies
• SQL Server Agent and job scheduling
• Database maintenance plans
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
• Database mirroring and replication
• Log shipping
• Failover clustering
• Multi-region deployment strategies
• Backup and restore strategies
• Point-in-time recovery
• Disaster recovery planning and testing

Performance Tuning

• Query performance tuning and optimization
• Index tuning and maintenance
• Execution plan analysis
• Wait statistics analysis
• Blocking and deadlock resolution
• Resource Governor configuration
• Memory and CPU optimization
• I/O optimization
• Performance monitoring tools (SQL Profiler Extended Events DMVs)

Cloud Database Services

• AWS RDS for SQL Server (3 years)
• Cloud database security and compliance
• Cloud backup and recovery
• Cloud monitoring and alerting
• Cost optimization strategies

Data Migration

• Large-scale data migration experience (500GB)
• Conversion scripts experience
• ETL tools and processes (SSIS Azure Data Factory AWS DMS)
• Data validation and quality assurance
• Legacy database migration experience
• Network database to relational conversion
• Data mapping and transformation
• Migration automation and scripting
• Scripting & Automation

• PowerShell scripting for automation
• T-SQL scripting
• Source code management GIHUB
• CI/CD for database deployments
• Automated testing frameworks

Professional Experience (Must Have)

• 10 years of database administration experience
• 8 years of SQL Server administration
• 3 years of cloud database experience (Azure SQL or AWS RDS)
• Experience with large-scale data migrations (500GB databases)
• Experience with mission-critical systems (99.9% uptime)
• Led or participated in database modernization projects
• Experience with high-transaction environments (50K transactions/day)
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Required / Desired Skills

• Ensure databases are production Required ready with rigorous testing performance validation and best practices for high availability and disaster Required 5 Years
• Work independently with minimal Required support on the DB issues pertaining to development of the Stored Procedures Functions and DB maintenance Required 5 Years
• Design and develop database systems that are efficient scalable and secure. Hands-on experience in building new relational data models tables views Required 5 Years
• Design the DB deployment strategy DB maintenance of all environments Required 5 Years
• DB migration project (Oracle to SQL Server) with understanding in designing and maintaining High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options Required 5 Years
• Back-end data integration and architecture including dimensional data modelling(partitioning) database design data warehousing ETL development Required 5 Years
• Knowledge/Experience in developing hosting & managing databases on AWS RDS. Required 5 Years
• Implements security protocols such as encryption access controls and data backup and recovery procedures. Required 5 Years
• Experience with Windows server including Active Directory. Should be able to manage users user access strategies integrated with the application Required 5 Years
• Experience with Windows server including Active Directory. Should be able to manage users user access strategies integrated with the application Required 5 Years
• Design DB deployment strategy across the environments experience with version control systems and Cl/CD pipelines for DB changes Required 5 Years
• Source code maintenance working experience in GITHUB Required 5 Years

Required Skills:

Database Architecture & DesignDesign target SQL Server database architectureExperience in working on database conversion Design normalized schemas across multiple databases Design data partitioning strategy for large tables (50M records) Create database security architecture Design audit trail and history tracking mechanisms Establish backup and recovery architecture Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions