Staff Data Architect/DBA

Company:  Conexess Group, LLC
Location: Gilbert
Closing Date: 28/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Conexess Group is aiding a national client in their search for a Staff Data Architect/DBA.

The Opportunity

As a Data Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence with our dynamic teams. Collaborating closely with product, design, architects, and engineers, you'll lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of our data resources and cutting-edge solutions. Your contributions will be instrumental in the advancement of our platform, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and innovation. This position offers an exciting opportunity for a data professional that is passionate about technical innovation and using data to help our company grow.

Responsibilities:

Data Modeling: Understand current data utilization, methods and models in order to architect a new data model that supports current product capabilities including reporting and future data analysis.

Governance: Develop and enforce data governance policies and best practices to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, designers, architects and platform engineers to define scope and drive the implementation of new features from conception to release.

Continuous Improvement: Regularly evaluate and enhance the data architecture to adapt to evolving business needs.

Leadership: Provide leadership and strategic direction for data-related projects and initiatives.

Quality Assurance: Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all data systems and processes.

Audits & Assessments: Conduct regular assessments and audits of the data architecture and related processes to ensure compliance and efficiency.

Hands-on Administration: Responsible for ensuring data sources are being backed up and restorable. Ensure monitoring is in place and analyze metrics on a regular basis to guarantee up-time, recognize anomalous activity, and forecast possible issues by observing changes in resource utilization patterns.

Hands-on Assistance: Work with engineers to develop stored procedures, troubleshoot existing ORM performance issues, and aid in the retrieval of data for troubleshooting. Assist in platform deployments to ensure that database upgrades run smoothly and ensure that data is being populated as expected.

Database Design and Performance Tuning: Familiar with AWS RDS and Serverless SQL clusters. Will be responsible for building views, access patterns, and stored procedures for performant and secure data access by the application later.

Disaster Recovery: Responsible for data fix and realtime database rollback plan to manage data corruption. Responsible for maintaining backup and restore strategy for the databases.

Cost Management: responsible for maintaining and extending cost control automation for the data sources.

Quicksights Visualizations: Quicksights is used for both internal and external reporting, which will require updates and maintenance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

5-7+ years of proven experience as a Data Architect/DBA in an AWS environment.

Extensive experience in data modeling, database design, data governance, and data warehousing.

Experience in managing and optimizing databases with MySQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Athena, and Postgres.

Strong knowledge of AWS cloud platform including services such as RDS, Redshift, S3 and Quicksight.

Proficient in performance tuning, query optimization, database backup and recovery procedures.

Proven leadership and communication skills.

Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.

Personal Qualities:

Leadership Experience: Demonstrating effective leadership and mentorship, fostering innovation, and driving successful outcomes through collaborative decision-making.

Communication Excellence: Excelling in keeping peers and stakeholders informed, particularly during critical customer-impacting scenarios. Demonstrating the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and succinctly.

Agile Affinity: Seamlessly incorporating Agile/Scrum methodologies into project workflows, fostering adaptability and efficiency within the team.

Problem Solving: Exhibiting an unparalleled knack for tackling intricate, ambiguous challenges head-on.

Detail-Oriented: Exceptionally meticulous and attentive to every detail.

Benefits

Our benefits package is designed to reward contribution and loyalty and to attract the kind of talented individuals who have their pick of employers. We offer a highly competitive package comprising:

Competitive Base Salary: Compensation aligns with experience and special expertise.

Stock Options: Options vest over a 4-year period, with 25% vesting each year, offering a long-term incentive for your contribution to the company's growth.

Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K plans. Personalization options are available.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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