Remote Senior Oracle DB Architect & Modernization Lead

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Hybrid/in-office option

Full-time employment

Mentoring colleagues

Limited travel

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator in the United States. The role leads strategy, architecture, and evolution of a complex Oracle environment, guiding modernization, security, and automation while owning critical production systems.

You will partner with engineering, product, and external service providers to improve resilience, governance, and operational excellence, mentoring colleagues and shaping long-term technical direction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle DB administration in production environments.
• Advanced expertise in Oracle performance tuning and SQL optimization.
• Strong knowledge of RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• Working familiarity with PL/SQL and reviewing database-resident code.
• Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
• Experience with backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Knowledge of database security, auditing, access management, and PCI compliance.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills; proactive problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Define database architecture standards and guide decisions across products and platforms.
• Own the multi-year roadmap for database capacity, debt, and modernization.
• Evaluate database technologies and cloud services for reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior ownership and escalation for production and non-production Oracle environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, and complex troubleshooting.
• Improve monitoring, backup/recovery, high availability, and DR practices.
• Lead root-cause analyses and participate in on-call rotation.
• Establish standards for database architecture, SQL development, and operations.
• Review major schema changes and migrations with engineering teams.
• Develop modernization strategies including Oracle on AWS and cloud-native options.
• Automate DBA tasks to reduce manual work and complexity.
• Mentor engineers on DB design, SQL performance, and best practices.

Skills

Oracle performance

SQL optimization

PL/SQL

Data modeling

Backup & recovery

High availability

Security & compliance

Mentoring

Automation

Cloud modernization

AWS Oracle

Education

Oracle OCP

Tools

Datadog

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator in the United States. The role leads strategy, architecture, and evolution of a complex Oracle environment, guiding modernization, security, and automation while owning critical production systems.

You will partner with engineering, product, and external service providers to improve resilience, governance, and operational excellence, mentoring colleagues and shaping long-term technical direction.