Cloud Database Architect

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Title: 

Cloud Database Architect

About the role:

• This is a HANDS-ON engineering position for individuals with a passion for analyzing, designing, developing, and operationalizing database and analytics solutions using AWS database and data technologies.
• The role is 70% focused on new projects & enhancements and 30% focused on providing operations support.
• This is a Full-time Employee (Permanent Staff) position based out of the Sony Office in Bengaluru.
• Work-from-home option is available based on the situation.

Education:

• A university bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Business Intelligence or Data Analytics is a must-have.
• Solid knowledge of data modeling and database design
• Solid knowledge of workings of a distributed database models including SQL, No-SQL and performance optimization
• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Solid knowledge of AWS database and data technologies

Recruiting Team:

The recruiting team works on various security domains like Endpoint Security, Inventory Mgmt., IAM, Threats & Vulnerabilities Mgmt., Reporting & Data Science.

Prior Experience:

• Must-Haves:
  • MUST-HAVE: Overall technology experience of 8+ years
  • MUST-HAVE: Minimum experience of 5 years in data modelling and database design
  • MUST-HAVE: Minimum experience of 7 years in designing, implementing, and supporting medium to large scale database systems
  • MUST-HAVE: Minimum experience of 5 years in designing, developing, and supporting solutions using S3, Redshift, DynamoDB and any of the Managed RDS
  • MUST-HAVE: Minimum experience of 4 years designing, developing, and tuning solutions using AWS database and storage technologies

• Preferred:          
  • Prior experience with designing, developing, and supporting solutions using database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra is a plus
  • Experience with designing, developing, and supporting solutions using Map Reduce, Kafka, & Streaming technologies is a plus
  • Advanced python programming skills is a plus

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Understand the business domain, core data objects, data entities. Model the relationships between the various entities
• Design the data warehouse, data mart and transactional databases including all facets of load parameters
• Induct aspects of high performance, security, usability, operability, maintainability, traceability, observability, evolvability into the systems design
• Assess performance influencing parameters like normalization, de-normalization, most executed transactions, record count, data size, I/O parameters at the database and OS level in the database and table designs
• Maintain a catalog of meta, master, transactional and reference data
• Tune the transactions and queries and determine the use of appropriate client libraries and fetch mechanism (like query vs stored procedures)
• Design the system for resilience, fail-over, self-healing and institute rollback plans
• Develop and test database code and other core and helper utilities in Python
• Develop and profile queries, triggers, indices, and stored procedures
• Monitor the health of queries and identify patterns leading to bottlenecks in the system before the customer finds it
• Own the DevOps and release mgmt. practices pertaining to the database solutions
• Estimate the cost of AWS services usage and look to continuously optimize the cost
• Design and develop data REST API layer on Python

Success Factors:

• Critical thinking, analytical & logical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
• Strong desire to learn, experiment and iterate new solutions
• Possess excellent fluency in English and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Be able to clearly explain the design and the design decisions rooted in logic and core requirements
• Be able to function in an environment where the team is virtual and geographically dispersed