Senior Oracle DB Architect - Remote Modernization

ROI Solutions

Colorado

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. You will drive architecture, standards, and modernization while collaborating with Product Reliability, Security Engineering, Product, and our managed services partner.

You will own issues, establish priorities, and communicate risks and progress to leadership, building capabilities across the organization and protecting today’s stability while shaping tomorrow’s

Qualifications

8+ years of Oracle database administration experience in production environments.
Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning and SQL optimization.
Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
Working familiarity with PL/SQL 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.
Experience with database security, auditing, and PCI-compliant environments.
Experience with Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.
Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS (Oracle DB@AWS) and AWS RDS/Aurora.
Experience with Datadog or comparable database monitoring and observability platforms.

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, 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 workloads.
Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce debt and complexity.
Serve as a senior database resource and mentor engineers in relational design, SQL performance, and best practices.
Create documentation, training, reusable patterns, and automation to strengthen shared knowledge.
Provide database expertise for data pipelines, migrations, and significant product initiatives.
Partner with data and engineering teams on scalable, secure data movement across platforms and external systems.
Serve as the senior technical partner to ROI’s database managed services provider, define SLAs and assess vendor services.