Database Architect (Remote)

Autodesk•Montreal, QC

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Database Architect will serve as the subject matter expert for databases within ACS. They will proactively form and drive a council consisting of database experts and interested parties from across ACS and take personal responsibility for ensuring organizational readiness to deliver high quality database-backed services. They will also work with our infrastructure engineering teams to automate and deploy standards across the database fleet. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, AEC Construction and will work remotely based in Canada.

Requirements

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 to share your expertise and influence positive outcomes

Nice To Haves

You are a leader and team-builder, comfortable working across a distributed group of service owners who do not report directly to you
You are a fearless problem-solver and model-driven thinker
You embrace big challenges and apply rigorous yet efficient methods in your solutions
You are results-driven, have a strong bias for action and a solid sense of accountability

Responsibilities

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, 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