Senior Cloud Database Architect — AWS Migration Lead

Cox Automotive; Village of North Hills (NY); On-site; USD 178,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive program

Paid holidays

Wellness time off

Bereavement leave

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a Principal Database Administrator to lead modernization efforts and drive cloud migration initiatives. You will stabilize current on-prem systems, design a phased plan to AWS, and ensure high availability for enterprise platforms.

You will mentor staff, influence architects, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable data solutions across Dealer Solutions. Strong leadership and deep SQL/Cloud expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in database administration or related roles with leadership.
• Experience designing high-performance, fault-tolerant DB systems.
• Expertise in AWS RDS and cloud migrations to AWS.
• Strong HIPAA-like security and regulatory considerations are desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead database strategy and modernization efforts across teams.
• Design, build, and optimize on-prem and cloud-native databases.
• Ensure 24x7 availability with robust DR and backup plans.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture decisions.

Skills

AWS RDS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

NoSQL

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Data Modeling

SQL Server

Cloud migration

CI/CD for DB

Leadership

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GoldenGate

Always On

SQL Server

AWS

Job description

Cox Automotive is seeking a Principal Database Administrator to lead modernization efforts and drive cloud migration initiatives. You will stabilize current on-prem systems, design a phased plan to AWS, and ensure high availability for enterprise platforms.

You will mentor staff, influence architects, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable data solutions across Dealer Solutions. Strong leadership and deep SQL/Cloud expertise are essential.