Database Architect - UK

TradeCentric; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a Database Architect to design and maintain a robust database infrastructure for its SaaS operations. This role emphasizes optimizing performance, ensuring security, and enabling scalability. You will work collaboratively with engineering teams to enhance data architecture and support cloud migrations. With a focus on reliability and automation, your contributions will directly impact customer success and drive growth. Join a leading firm recognized for its rapid expansion and commitment to transforming B2B operations through cutting-edge technology solutions.

Benefits

Health Benefits Reimbursement Program

Pension with Generous Company Match

Work-from-home Allowance

Flexible Time Off

Volunteer Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of experience in database administration in a SaaS environment.
• Strong understanding of database security and compliance best practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize database schema and performance for high availability.
• Implement database security best practices and compliance policies.

Skills

Database Administration

Performance Optimization

Database Security

Cloud Database Technologies

Automation Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

MariaDB/MySQL

Amazon RDS

Google Cloud SQL

ElasticSearch

Terraform

Python

Bash

Job description

Job Summary:

As a Database Architect, you will be responsible for designing, optimizing, securing and maintaining our database schema and infrastructure to enable and support enterprise-class SaaS operation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database administration, design, architecture, performance optimization, security, and cloud database technologies, with a keen ability to enhance our data architecture for scalability and efficiency. With an emphasis on reliability, quality, security, efficiency, and automation, the solutions you deliver and enable will directly contribute to customer success and help drive TradeCentric’s next phase of growth.

Reports To: Sr. Director of Architecture

Work Location: Remote

What You'll Do:

• Database Administration & Optimization: Maintain and optimize database schema and performance, ensuring high security, availability, and scalability.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce database security and integrity best practices, access controls, and compliance policies such as GDPR and PCI-DSS.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery: Develop, test, and maintain backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for business continuity.
• Monitoring & Performance Tuning: Set up and manage database monitoring tools, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks.
• Query Optimization: Proactively analyze and optimize queries to enhance performance and reduce system load and collaborate.
• Cloud Database Migration: Research, plan, and execute cloud database migrations between leading platforms including Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL.
• Automation & Scripting: Develop automation scripts for database maintenance, monitoring, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Database Architecture: Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, efficient, and well-structured databases, and to optimize query and transaction processing.
• Data Pipeline Support: Guide and support development of data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with developers, DevOps engineers, and product teams to align database strategies with business needs.

Who You Are:

• Easy to work with: An effective communicator, positive team player, and natural collaborator.
• Experience: 7-9 years of database administration experience in a Saas environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree: Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred.
• Database Expertise: MariaDB/MySQL on Amazon RDS and/or Google Cloud SQL, and ElasticSearch.
• Security & Compliance: Deep understanding and application of database security best practices, encryption, access control, and compliance requirements including GDPR.
• Backup & Recovery: Experience implementing reliable backup, restore, and disaster recovery.
• Performance Tuning: Proven track record of optimizing complex queries, indexing strategies, and caching mechanisms.
• Architecture: Ability to assist in the design of scalable and efficient database schemas.
• Monitoring: Experience in establishing database monitoring tools and processes.
• Automation: Experience in automation and infrastructure scripting using Python, Bash, or Terraform.
• Data Pipeline: Experience supporting or working with data pipeline architectures.
• DevOps Collaboration: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

About Us:

TradeCentric is a leading innovator at the crossroads of eCommerce and eProcurement, transforming how B2B buyers and suppliers connect, automate, and scale their operations. Recognized for our rapid growth, TradeCentric has earned a place on the INC. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the three consecutive years. Backed by private equity, we continue to expand our best-in-class B2B Connected Commerce solutions and technology platform to enable frictionless trade for thousands of businesses worldwide.

Our purpose-built solution integrates with every leading eCommerce and eProcurement/ERP system to help suppliers and buyers seamlessly automate and accelerate their mission-critical transactions. By eliminating the complexity of disconnected systems, TradeCentric drives efficiency, lowers costs, and powers growth for our partners.

Here is an overview of the TradeCentric Platform.

Company Benefits

At TradeCentric, we have a strong and innovative team dedicated to transforming the way our clients do business. It is our people who make it happen and we strive to take care of our employees in every way we can. Below is a list of benefits that are offered to employees, once eligibility is met:

???? Health Benefits reimbursement program

Pension with generous company match

Work-from-home allowance

Flexible Time Off

Volunteer Time Off

Paid Parental Leave