Senior Oracle DB Architect & Modernization Lead

ROI Solutions; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. This role blends deep Oracle expertise with a pragmatic modernization approach to improve performance, reliability, security, automation, observability, resiliency, and cloud adoption across multiple teams.

You will own the multi-year roadmap for capacity, technical debt, and modernization, collaborating with Product Reliability and Security Engineering, Product,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration experience in complex production environments.
• Advanced Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
• Expertise with RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• PL/SQL familiarity to review, troubleshoot, and advise on database-resident code.
• Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning and testing.
• Database security, auditing, access management, and PCI-compliant environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across applications and database infrastructure.
• Strong communication, collaboration, prioritization, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Set database architecture standards and guide decisions across ROI’s products.
• Own multi-year roadmap for capacity, technical debt, and database modernization.
• Evaluate database technologies and cloud services based on reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior ownership and escalation support for Oracle production and non-production environments.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting with developers.
• Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant incidents and participate in a shared on-call rotation.
• Define practical standards for database architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve database quality and performance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop a pragmatic modernization strategy for ROI’s mature Oracle environment and evolving product architecture.
• Evaluate Oracle on AWS, cloud-native services, and alternative database platforms for appropriate workloads.
• Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce technical debt and complexity.
• Provide database expertise for data pipelines, client conversions, migrations, and product initiatives.
• Partner with data and engineering teams on scalable, secure, and efficient data movement across platforms and external systems.
• Serve as the senior technical partner to ROI’s database managed services provider.
• Define responsibilities, escalation paths, service expectations, and SLAs, and regularly assess service quality.

Skills

Oracle DBA experience

Performance tuning

Communication

Mentoring

Collaboration

Automation

Tools

RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

ASM

Exadata

Partitioning

Job description

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. This role blends deep Oracle expertise with a pragmatic modernization approach to improve performance, reliability, security, automation, observability, resiliency, and cloud adoption across multiple teams.

You will own the multi-year roadmap for capacity, technical debt, and modernization, collaborating with Product Reliability and Security Engineering, Product,