Senior Oracle DB Architect & Modernization Leader

ROI Solutions

West Virginia

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

ROI Solutions seeks a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead architecture, modernization, and reliability across our Oracle environments. The role combines deep Oracle expertise with a pragmatic modernization strategy, collaborating with reliability, security, and product teams to ensure secure, scalable data platforms.

You will own multi-year roadmaps, drive performance improvements, and strengthen monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

8+ years of Oracle database administration experience in production environments.
Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
PL/SQL familiarity to review and troubleshoot database-resident code.
Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning/testing.
Experience with 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 technical decisions across ROI’s products and platforms.
Own the 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 technical ownership and escalation support for Oracle production and non-production environments.
Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, 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.
Review significant schema changes, migrations, procedural objects, and database designs.
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 debt and complexity.