(A) Senior Cloud Database Architect

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

About the job (A) Senior Cloud Database Architect

A database architect's responsibility is to design databases that suit a company's various needs by studying and analyzing the priorities and business goals.

• Develop database models with scalability and security.
• Ensure that the database meets any regulations and standards when dealing with sensitive data.
• Create technical documentation pertaining to a database's functionality, its ancillary tools, and how they work together to provide all the needed functionality.
• Define standards and guidelines for different data platforms (RDBMS/NoSQL/Big Data and Analytics).
• Governance of the database landscape across AIA business units.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Architecting and designing data solutions.
• Product evaluation of database technologies.
• Create deployment guides, integration patterns, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns.
• Create database standards and guidelines.
• Database technology governance through policy as code.
• Design automated deployment and DevOps pipelines for database implementation and maintenance.
• Cost optimization of databases and data platforms.
• Define best practices for data structure and configuration for security and performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting database issues including performance and providing RCA and problem management.
• Developing database solutions, installing, and configuring information systems, analyzing structural requirements for data projects, data migration, and designing conceptual and logical data models.
• Collaborating with developers, designing databases, analyzing data, and modeling and migrating data.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree holder in IT / Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• At least 10 years work experience in database architecture with at least 5 years in an architecture & design role on cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Proficiency in architecture design & implementations on public clouds (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on Azure, AWS & AliCloud etc.). Preferably experienced in DevOps, hybrid cloud integration with on-premises infrastructure.
• Cloud Architecture related certifications on database technologies.
• Experience with database technologies such as Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, NoSQL MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Azure SQL, SQL MI, SQL Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Storage Accounts, etc.
• Deep knowledge of database platform layers.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, Ansible.
• Knowledge of cloud orchestration tools.
• Worked on data migration from on-premises to cloud technologies using both re-host, re-platform, and re-architect methodologies.
• Worked on solution architecture creating high-level and detailed design documents.
• Ability to analyze, develop, and recommend long-term strategic solutions to ensure capacity meets current and future requirements.
• Ability to drive multiple vendors to support a complex enterprise infrastructure environment.
• Work with internal and external partners, carriers, facility operators, and our hardware vendors to design and develop connectivity strategy.
• Public cloud (Azure, Google, AWS) design and support experience at the enterprise level required.
• Strong project implementation background, able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong sense of ownership & self-driven.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Cooperative, good teamwork, and able to work independently.