Database Architect

Database Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function

• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise

• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (CockroachDB), in-memory (Redis) platforms

• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations

• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams

• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles

• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built-in governance and controls

• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks

• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models

• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks

• Introduce proactive capacity planning and performance optimization models

• Ensure deep integration with core infrastructure layers network (segmentation, routing, load balancing), compute (VM, bare metal, container orchestration), storage (block, file, object; performance tiers)

• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to optimize deployment models, standardize connectivity and security patterns, enable Kubernetes/operator-based database management