Database Architect-4

Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Database Architect

Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

FTE Only

• 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

• Experience leading platform engineering or internal developer platform initiatives

• Experience in financial services or regulated enterprise environments

• Experience with Kubernetes operators for databases

• Knowledge of multi-cloud architectures and data sovereignty models

• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)

• Exposure to data governance and enterprise data architecture frameworks

• Platform thinking and product mindset

• Architectural leadership and systems design

• Deep database engineering expertise

• Automation-first mindset

• Cross-domain integration (infra, security, enterprise systems)

• Strong stakeholder management and influence

• Operates at a lead/architect level, bridging strategy and execution

• Can standardize and scale database services across a complex enterprise

• Balances engineering rigor with usability and developer experience

• Proactively identifies risks, gaps, and optimization opportunities

• Drives alignment across technology, operations, and governance domains

• Adaptability

• Business Acumen

• Production Support

• Solution Design

• Stakeholder Management

• Automation

• Influence

• Innovative Thinking

• Solution Delivery Process

• Technical Strategy Development

• CockroachDB

Required Skills