14 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the enterprise cloud database strategy, architecture standards, and roadmap.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, resilient, highly available, disaster-recovery-ready, and multi-region database solutions.
- Lead enterprise database modernization and cloud migration initiatives, including assessments, solution design, validation, cutover, rollback, and adoption.
- Establish standards for database governance, security, compliance, backup, recovery, operational readiness, and observability.
- Evaluate database technologies and recommend platform adoption, standardization, retention, or retirement.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering teams to resolve dependencies and design tradeoffs.
- Provide architectural guidance, reference architectures, design patterns, engineering standards, mentorship, and technical leadership.
- Translate business and technology objectives into prioritized database capabilities, platform investments, and architecture roadmaps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, or architecture, including 5+ years designing cloud-native database solutions.
- Proven experience designing mission-critical database platforms for large-scale workloads in public cloud environments.
- Proficiency with AWS is required; experience with Azure and GCP is preferred.
- Deep expertise in at least two enterprise database platforms, including data modeling, performance tuning, and scalable design.
- Experience with AWS database services including RDS and Aurora, and supporting technologies such as DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, and DMS.
- Experience architecting high-availability database solutions with disaster recovery and multi-region capabilities.
- Proven success leading enterprise-scale database modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
- Experience applying Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD practices to database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, schema changes, and deployment.
- Strong understanding of database security, governance, compliance, backup, and recovery strategies.
- Expertise in query optimization, workload analysis, capacity planning, cloud database cost optimization, and database observability.
- Demonstrated success influencing technical direction, leading cross-functional initiatives, and developing database engineering talent.
- Excellent communication skills for presenting complex technical concepts to technical and executive audiences.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, a current AWS database-focused certification, or an equivalent credential is preferred.
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards and interoperability requirements is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote, US position with a remote-first, camera-first work environment; camera use is required for virtual meetings.
- Competitive salary and bonus structure; compensation amounts are not specified.
- Generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits, and a 401k match available on day one.
- Unlimited PTO for salaried associates, or 19 days of PTO initially for hourly associates, plus 9 paid holidays.
- Up to $250 per year reimbursement for eligible wellness expenses.
- Education reimbursement.
- Paid parental leave for birth and adoptive parents.
- Diversity and inclusion groups, continuous learning resources, and community volunteer opportunities.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftApache CassandraAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQL
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