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We are seeking a Senior Database Architect with deep, enterprise-level experience to lead the design, evolution, and governance of database platforms supporting OPTO Products and Projects. This role requires a proven track record of architecting complex, high-availability database ecosystems across SQL and NoSQL technologies while providing technical leadership and strategic direction.

The ideal candidate brings extensive hands-on experience combined with the ability to define long-term data architecture strategy, influence cross-functional teams, and ensure scalability, performance, and security across mission-critical systems.

Essential Job Duties

Lead the end-to-end architecture of enterprise database platforms across SQL and NoSQL technologies.

Design and govern database architectures ensuring scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

Define and enforce enterprise database standards, architecture principles, and best practices.

Provide architectural oversight for MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB environments.

Lead complex database migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.

Architect data warehousing and data integration solutions to support analytics and reporting.

Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and leadership teams to align database architecture with business strategy.

Evaluate and recommend database technologies, tools, and platforms.

Establish performance tuning, capacity planning, and monitoring strategies.

Ensure database security, compliance, access controls, and data protection standards are met.

Design and validate clustering, replication, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.

Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to database engineers and developers.

Drive root-cause analysis for complex database issues and lead remediation efforts.

Maintain comprehensive architecture documentation, data models, and standards.

Required Education, Skills, and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; Master’s degree preferred.

15+ years of progressive experience in database engineering and architecture, including:

Significant experience in database architecture and design for enterprise systems.

Hands-on leadership of large-scale, mission-critical database environments.

Deep expertise in MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB (or equivalent enterprise SQL/NoSQL platforms).

Proven experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.

Strong background in database performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimization.

Experience defining and enforcing database security and governance standards.

Ability to work independently while leading complex architectural initiatives.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. Optional / Preferred Experience

Experience leading database strategy across multiple products or business units.

Cloud or hybrid database architecture experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Experience modernizing legacy database platforms.