Chief Architect, Enterprise Database Platforms

Jobtailor; Connecticut; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Connecticut seeks a Senior Enterprise Database Architect to define and own the platform strategy across relational, NoSQL, in‑memory, engineered systems, and cloud-native platforms.

Translate business needs into scalable capabilities, establish reference architectures, standards, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to security and regulatory requirements. Lead automation-first initiatives and manage lifecycle, costs, and financials.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise database architecture, engineering, and operations.
• Proven experience operating in a senior leadership role with accountability for large-scale, 24x7 production environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Proven success building and scaling Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and Database-as-Code capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading database modernization and migration programs across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments.
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, resiliency engineering, cyber recovery, observability, ITSM, security controls, and governance practices.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical credibility.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise database platform strategy across relational, NoSQL, in-memory, engineered systems, and cloud-native platforms.
• Translate business and application needs into standardized, scalable database platform capabilities.
• Establish reference architectures, standards, patterns, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide architectural leadership across Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Exadata/ExaCC, Oracle OEM, and Azure database platforms.
• Lead enterprise adoption of automation-first and self-service database platforms.
• Stand up standardized, repeatable database provisioning and configuration pipelines to reduce manual intervention.
• Build and govern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for Database-as-Code.
• Manage platform lifecycle from ideation through retirement.
• Establish platform health, reliability, cost, and automation metrics.
• Own financials including budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year planning.

Skills

Enterprise database architecture

Senior leadership

Infrastructure-as-Code

CI/CD pipelines

Database modernization

Performance tuning

Security governance

Observability

ITSM

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Sybase

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

Exadata

Exadata Cloud@Customer

Azure database services

Job description

Jobtailor in Connecticut seeks a Senior Enterprise Database Architect to define and own the platform strategy across relational, NoSQL, in‑memory, engineered systems, and cloud-native platforms.

Translate business needs into scalable capabilities, establish reference architectures, standards, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to security and regulatory requirements. Lead automation-first initiatives and manage lifecycle, costs, and financials.