(A) Senior Cloud Database Architect

A database architects responsibility is to design a databases that suits a company's various needs by studying and analyzing the priorities and business goals.

• Develop database models with scalability and security.
• Ensure that the database meets any regulations and standards when dealing with sensitive data.
• Create technical documentation pertaining to a databases functionality, its ancillary tools, and how they work together to provide all the needed functionality.
• Define standards and guidelines for different data platforms (RDBMS/No SQL/Bigdata and Analytics)
• Governance of the database landscape across AIA business units
  
  

Roles And Responsibilities

• Architecting and designing data solutions
• Product evaluation of database technologies.
• Create deployment guides, integration patterns, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns.
• Produce implementation steps for database migrations.
• Create database standards and guidelines
• Database technology governance through policy as a code.
• Design automated deployment and DevOps pipelines for database implementation and maintenance.
• Cost optimization of databases and data platform
• Define best practices for data structure and configuration for security and performance tuning
• Troubleshooting database issues including performance and providing RCA and problem management.
• Developing database solutions, installing, and configuring information systems, analyzing structural requirements for data projects, data migration and designing conceptual and logical data models.
• Collaborating with developers, designing databases, analyzing data, and modeling and migrating data.
  
  

Minimum Job Requirements

• Degree holder in IT / Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• At least 10 years work experience in database architecture with at least 5 years in architecture & design role on cloud technologies Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Proficiency in architecture design & implementations on public clouds (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on Azure, AWS & AliCloud etc.) Preferably experienced on DevOps, hybrid cloud integration with on-premises infrastructure.
• Cloud Architecture related certifications on database technologies
• Experience on database technologies such as Microsoft SQL, PostgrSQL, Oracle , No SQL MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Azure SQL, SQL MI, SQL data warehouse, Data factory, Storage Accounts etc.
• Deep knowledge on database platform layers
• knowledge on DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, Ansible.
• Knowledge on cloud orchestration tools.
• Worked on data migration from on premise to cloud technologies using both Re-host, replatform and re-architect methodology
• Worked on solution architecture creating High level and detail design documents
• Ability to analyse, develop and recommend long-term strategic solutions to ensure capacity meets current and future requirements.
• Ability to drive multiple vendors to support a complex enterprise infrastructure environment
• Work with internal and external partners, carriers, facility operators and our hardware vendors to design and develop connectivity strategy
• Public cloud (Azure, Google, AWS) design and support experience at enterprise level required
• Strong project implementation background, able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure
• Strong sense of ownership & self-driven
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Cooperative, good teamwork and able to work independently