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Senior Database Architect

Job Description

  • Role : Lead Database Architect/Consultant
  • SO# - 251294
  • Location : Stamford, CT (5 Days Onsite)
  • Position type : Contract
  • Experience Required : >12+ Years

Role Overview:

The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the strategic leadership, architecture, and operational management of all enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. This role ensures the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of mission-critical data systems while aligning database services with enterprise technology strategy.

This position oversees complex multi-platform ecosystems including relational, cloud-, and analytical databases, and will lead both on-shore and off-shore resources in delivering highly available and secure database services.

This position requires strong technical depth combined with leadership capability, governance experience, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture

  • Define and drive enterprise database architecture standards, roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
  • Provide technical leadership across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives.
  • Establish best practices for scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

Platform Administration & Engineering

  • Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
  • Oracle (including Autonomous Database), PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database technologies as required.
  • Responsibilities include high availability and disaster recovery architecture, performance tuning and capacity planning, patch and lifecycle management, automation and infrastructure-as-code practices, and optimization across OLTP and analytics workloads.

Cloud & Hybrid Database Operations

  • Lead database deployments across cloud platforms including AWS RDS, OCI Autonomous Database, and hybrid architectures.
  • Develop governance frameworks for cloud database provisioning, cost optimization, and operational controls.
  • Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to implement automation, CI/CD integration, and platform observability with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code.

Security, Risk & Compliance

  • Ensure database platforms meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on vulnerability management, encryption standards, and access governance.
  • Implement secure configuration baselines and data protection strategies.

Team Leadership & Resource Management

  • Lead and mentor both on-shore and off-shore database administration teams.
  • Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers.
  • Establish operational procedures, service level objectives, and performance metrics.
  • Provide escalation leadership during critical incidents and production events.

Operational Excellence

  • Drive automation and standardization of database operations.
  • Develop monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance practices.
  • Improve reliability through continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Support enterprise programs including cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and data center transitions.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise across multiple database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB, DB2, Redshift, etc.).
  • Proven experience managing hybrid cloud and on-prem database deployments.
  • Experience leading distributed technical teams including offshore resources.
  • Strategic thinker with strong execution capability
  • Ability to balance governance with engineering innovation
  • Strong incident leadership and crisis management experience
  • Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security practices.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Autonomous Database, AWS RDS, or large-scale cloud- data platforms.
  • Background in IaC and CI/CD automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Experience supporting mission-critical or regulated environments.
  • Knowledge of data warehousing, analytics platforms, and modern data engineering patterns.

Education Qualification

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (equivalent experience acceptable).