Database Product Architect

Jabil; United States; Remote; USD 111,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Country-specific benefits

Professional development opportunities

Fully remote within Europe

Job summary

Jabil is seeking a Database Product Architect to shape the strategy for enterprise database platforms, drive modernization, and lead cloud transformation initiatives across global applications. The role offers architecture ownership with influence over standards, governance, and investments.

You will collaborate across Application, Infra, Security, and Data teams to design secure, scalable solutions and define reference architectures for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in database engineering, database architecture, or platform engineering.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j or similar enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing cloud database solutions within Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, performance optimization, scalability, and database security.
• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Python or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategic roadmap for enterprise database platforms.
• Lead database modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Establish architecture standards, governance practices, and technology guidelines.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable database solutions.
• Drive automation and operational excellence across database services.
• Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Security, and Data Engineering teams.
• Optimize platform performance, availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Lead architecture decisions supporting cloud-native and hybrid database environments.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership across database engineering functions.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend strategic investments.
• Define approved database platforms, reference architectures, design patterns, and platform selection criteria across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define database security, encryption, compliance, audit, retention, and resilience standards in partnership with Security and Governance teams.
• Review and approve database designs, Architecture Decision Record, and solution architecture proposals through architecture governance processes.

Skills

Database engineering

Database architecture

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Cloud database design

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Job description

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world’s top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Location: Europe (Remote)
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, standard European business hours

Build Your Career with Jabil

Join Jabil’s global technology organization and help shape the future of our enterprise database platforms. We are seeking a Database Product Architect to define database strategy, modernization initiatives, governance standards, and cloud transformation programs supporting mission-critical business applications at global scale.

This role offers genuine architecture ownership and direct influence over platform direction, standards, and investment decisions.

What You Will Do

• Define the strategic roadmap for enterprise database platforms.
• Lead database modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Establish architecture standards, governance practices, and technology guidelines.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable database solutions.
• Drive automation and operational excellence across database services.
• Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Security, and Data Engineering teams.
• Optimize platform performance, availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Lead architecture decisions supporting cloud-native and hybrid database environments.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership across database engineering functions.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend strategic investments.
• Define approved database platforms, reference architectures, design patterns, and platform selection criteria across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define database security, encryption, compliance, audit, retention, and resilience standards in partnership with Security and Governance teams.
• Review and approve database designs, Architecture Decision Record, and solution architecture proposals through architecture governance processes.

What We Are Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in database engineering, database architecture, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j or similar enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing cloud database solutions within Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, performance optimization, scalability, and database security.
• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Python or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure, AWS, Oracle, Microsoft, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL, certifications.
• Experience leading enterprise cloud migration programs.
• Familiarity with DataOps, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering practices.

What We Offer

• Fully remote opportunity within Europe.
• High-impact architecture role with global visibility.
• Ownership of enterprise technology roadmaps and architecture decisions.
• Participation in cloud transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Collaboration with global engineering and technology teams.
• Competitive compensation and performance-based bonus.
• Comprehensive country-specific benefits package and wellbeing programs.
• Professional development opportunities, including training, certifications, and career growth.
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide technology strategy within a global Fortune 500 organization and contribute to international projects across Europe and beyond.

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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