Continuously assess our broad database readiness/needs
Identify significant risks/gaps
Charter tactical and strategic solutions for our DB platform team to execute
Introduce improvements in key areas including proactive capacity management, monitoring/alerting, tuning/pruning, sharding, migrations, schema and query optimization, deadlock resolution, load optimization, DB performance, and data replication management for reporting
Create and evangelize/institutionalize general best practices and health models
Utilize industry standard observability tooling and AWS automation to implement standards across a fleet of databases
Form a high-impact council of experts from across ACS to leverage as champions
Provide direct consulting with individual teams as well as COE leads on readiness/risks
Select/curate appropriate broad training opportunities for ACS Engineering in database technologies/management
Provide tactical support in the case of true emergencies

Minimum of 8 years experience in database architecture and dataplane for enterprise SaaS platform at scale
Minimum of 8 years of Postgres experience
Minimum of 5 years experience with cloud data technologies
Minimum of 5 years experience with NoSQL cloud based architectures
Excellent communication and organizational skills

Database Architect

Key skills