Principal Architect - Database Solutions Engineering

Nutanix; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud solutions company in the UK is searching for a Principal Architect - Database Solutions Engineering. This role involves designing scalable database architectures and leading innovation in hybrid cloud solutions. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of experience in technical roles, with hands-on expertise in databases and excellent communication skills. The position primarily allows for remote work, with occasional in-office visits required based on business needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Minimum of 5 years in database architecture.
• Deep expertise in Server Virtualization and Networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust database architectures.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade database DR strategies.
• Partner with sales teams to support large-scale strategic opportunities.

Skills

Customer-facing technical experience

Database architecture

Database performance tuning

Automation scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Relational and non-relational database systems

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Benchmarking tools (HammerDB, PgBench)

Infrastructure automation frameworks (Ansible, Chef)

Public cloud database solutions (AWS RDS)

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12.08.2025

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26.09.2025

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The Opportunity

The Nutanix Database Solutions Engineering team is looking for a seasoned Database Solution Architect to join our team focused on bringing Hybrid and multi-cloud Database-as-a-Service to the enterprise level. The Database Solutions Architect combines deep technical subject matter expertise with a keen understanding of how to address the critical business needs of enterprise customers through Nutanix products and solutions. This role is a high-impact and high-visibility one. As customers continue their hybrid cloud journey, architect-level guidance is critical to their success.

The architect must be a highly organized, thorough, and motivated professional who understands the importance of being a strong team player and leader when forging a solution and liaising with customers. A deep technical expertise in traditional and next-generation database technologies—including containerized and cloud-native database workloads is a must.

This role is critical to designing scalable, secure, and resilient data architectures that align with our cloud transformation goals and modern application environments. The ideal candidate will lead innovation while ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and performance across diverse deployment models.

About the Team

Nutanix Database Engineering Solutions team is responsible for development/test of Best Practices and Reference Architecture guides regarding Databases on Nutanix, as well as helping out with pre and post-sales support.

We work in a collaborative environment where everyone is encouraged to try new things and come up with new solutions.

Within the DB Engineering Solutions team, you'll find no shortage of challenging problems to work on.

Your Role

• Design and implement robust, high-performing, and future-ready database architectures that support operational, transactional, and analytical workloads.
• Research and assess next-gen database platforms (., vector databases, graph databases, time-series DBs, real-time analytics engines) and recommend adoption paths.
• Develop data strategies that span on-prem, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid environments, including serverless and distributed database models.
• Ensure database solutions comply with data governance, privacy, and security regulations
• Champion innovation by researching new technologies, database engine updates and any other relevant ecosystem update
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade database DR strategies, including backup/recovery plans, replication, failover mechanisms, and cross-region availability.
• Partner with internal teams, prospects, and customers to expertly design and deploy database workloads on the Nutanix platform, fostering collaboration, technical excellence, and customer success at every stage
• Collaborate with Nutanix’s Engineering by developing and running benchmarks, providing SWOT analysis of the Nutanix Platform in order enhance the Nutanix’s offerings
• Develop robust automation solutions for database provisioning, health monitoring, and lifecycle management to drive operational efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Partner with Nutanix sales teams to support large-scale and strategic opportunities, providing technical expertise and solution alignment to drive customer value and deal success.
• Provide help to install, support, and maintain Nutanix solutions during strategic Proof of Concept (POC) deployments
• Be part of a global team of SME’s providing help during customer escalations processes
• Achieve NCX certification within the first year to enhance expertise in customer experience management and establish credibility.
  

What You Will Bring

• 12+ years’ experience in a customer-facing technical role - minimum of 5 years in database architecture, with hands-on experience in both relational and non-relational database systems, such as Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
• 8+ years of Relational Database implementation, operations and/or solution deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: Server Virtualization; Networking, Storage, Platform and Database Performance tuning
• Experience with deployments of databases on Kubernetes as a big plus
• Hands on experience with Benchmarking tools like HammerDB, Benchmark Factory, PgBench, SLOB, cnp-bench or others
• Experience in writing automation scripts (python, PowerShell) and experience with infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and similar
• Knowledge of public cloud database solutions/offerings like AWS RDS is a plus
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, as well as excellent presentation skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Work Arrangement

Remote: This position is primarily remote. There is no specific in-office requirement, however, there may be circumstances where you may be required to come into a local office for a specific purpose, and/or to travel to other locations based on business needs.