Database Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Charlotte, NC, seeks a seasoned Database Architect to lead enterprise database strategy and platform design across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will own target architectures for CockroachDB and Redis, drive API-driven self-service databases, and implement standardized provisioning with governance.

You will partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to ensure resilience, multi-region HA, DR planning, and optimized connectivity, security, and deployment

Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function.
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (CockroachDB), in-memory (Redis) platforms.
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations.
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams.
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles.
• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built-in governance and controls.
• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks.
• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks.
• Introduce proactive capacity planning and performance optimization models.
• Ensure deep integration with core infrastructure layers network (segmentation, routing, load balancing), compute (VM, bare metal, container orchestration), storage (block, file, object; performance tiers).
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to optimize deployment models, standardize connectivity and security patterns, enable Kubernetes/operator-based database management

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (CockroachDB), in-memory (Redis) platforms.
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams.
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles.
• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks.

Skills

Infrastructure experience

Architectural strategy

Reference architectures

Multi-cloud

API-driven platforms

Provisioning workflows

IaC adoption

Developer experience

HA/DR design

Sharding strategy

SLO/SLA enforcement

Capacity planning

Core infra integration

Kubernetes operators

Tools

CockroachDB

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (CockroachDB), in-memory (Redis) platforms
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built-in governance and controls
• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks
• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks
• Introduce proactive capacity planning and performance optimization models
• Ensure deep integration with core infrastructure layers network (segmentation, routing, load balancing), compute (VM, bare metal, container orchestration), storage (block, file, object; performance tiers)
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to optimize deployment models, standardize connectivity and security patterns, enable Kubernetes/operator-based database management
  
  

Job Description

Database Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer or working in a similar function
• Define and own the target architecture and engineering strategy for modern database platforms across the enterprise
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for document (CockroachDB), in-memory (Redis) platforms
• Ensure architecture aligns with hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereignty considerations
• Lead the creation of API-driven, self-service database platforms that abstract complexity from application teams
• Define and implement, service catalogs, golden deployment patterns, standardized provisioning workflows, reusable automation frameworks
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and platform-as-a-product principles
• Ensure the platform delivers, consistent developer experience, rapid provisioning, standardized configurations, built-in governance and controls
• Architect database services for enterprise-grade resilience, including multi-region/multi-site high availability, failover and disaster recovery strategies, backup/restore frameworks
• Lead performance engineering, including sharding and partitioning strategies, caching patterns (e.g., Redis integration), workload isolation and scaling models
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs and reliability benchmarks
• Introduce proactive capacity planning and performance optimization models
• Ensure deep integration with core infrastructure layers network (segmentation, routing, load balancing), compute (VM, bare metal, container orchestration), storage (block, file, object; performance tiers)
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to optimize deployment models, standardize connectivity and security patterns, enable Kubernetes/operator-based database management
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading platform engineering or internal developer platform initiatives
• Experience in financial services or regulated enterprise environments
• Experience with Kubernetes operators for databases
• Knowledge of multi-cloud architectures and data sovereignty models
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
• Exposure to data governance and enterprise data architecture frameworks
• Platform thinking and product mindset
• Architectural leadership and systems design
• Deep database engineering expertise
• Automation-first mindset
• Cross-domain integration (infra, security, enterprise systems)
• Strong stakeholder management and influence
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

• Operates at a lead/architect level, bridging strategy and execution
• Can standardize and scale database services across a complex enterprise
• Balances engineering rigor with usability and developer experience
• Proactively identifies risks, gaps, and optimization opportunities
• Drives alignment across technology, operations, and governance domains
  
  

Skills

• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• Production Support
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Automation
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Solution Delivery Process
• Technical Strategy Development
• CockroachDB
  
  

Salary Range- $110,000-$130,000 a year