Cloud Data Architect

UVGLOBALTECHNOLOGIES - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Austin, TX

About the position

The Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for developing and implementing data architectures that support efficient data storage, retrieval, and analysis. This role involves creating migration strategies for transitioning on-premises databases to cloud-native technologies, ensuring data integrity and security, and optimizing database performance. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement cloud-based data integration solutions and support DevOps functions.

Responsibilities

• Provide services in relation to data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
• Develop migration strategies from on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
• Develop, update and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support changing business requirements
• Design and implement data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
• Ensure data integrity, security, and performance for all databases
• Design and implement data integration solutions to enable seamless dataflow across systems
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to implement cloud-based data integration solutions
• Perform database optimization, capacity planning and performance monitoring
• Provide expertise with data migration and data archival in AWS cloud
• Provide expertise on AWS Cloud database infrastructure
• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions to minimize database downtime for planned/unplanned outages
• Perform database tuning, benchmark techniques, database sharding, table partitioning, horizontal/vertical scaling, user load, identification/measuring bottlenecks, system optimization
• Lead and ensure best practices and methodologies are applied to the design, deployment, and operations in the cloud
• Support DevOps functions to best utilize cloud resources with software configuration management and continuous integration tools
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum 17+ years of experience in data modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data governance, and data security
• Experience developing migration strategies for on-premises databases to cloud-native database technologies
• Experience designing and implementing data architectures that enable efficient data storage, retrieval and analysis
• Experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL in HA deployments
• Expertise in data storage and migrating Oracle RAC/Exadata infrastructure to a public cloud environment
• Hands-on experience with Agile development and project management for large cloud migrations
• Experience with database performance tuning, benchmark techniques, and system optimization
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology and DevOps tools like GitLab and Jenkins
• Experience with APIs design and implementation, and web services including RESTful APIs

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms
• Experience with monitoring tools

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility
• Professional development opportunities
• Health insurance coverage
• 401k retirement plan