Senior Oracle DB Architect – Remote & Modernization Lead

Jobgether; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid work

Full-time employment

Limited travel

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an experienced database leader to shape the strategy, architecture, and modernization of a complex Oracle environment. In a senior IC role, you will own critical production systems, drive cloud adoption, and mentor engineers while reducing technical debt.

You will partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, secure data platforms and resilient operations, with opportunities to influence long-term technical direction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration in production environments.
• Expertise in Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
• Experience with RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• Proficient in PL/SQL and reviewing database-resident code.
• Strong relational DB architecture, design, and data modeling skills.
• Experience with backup/recovery, high availability, and DR testing.
• Knowledge of security, auditing, access management, PCI-compliant environments.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills; able to simplify complex risks.

Responsibilities

• Define database architecture standards and guide technical decisions across products and platforms.
• Own the multi-year roadmap for database capacity, technical debt, and modernization.
• Evaluate database technologies and cloud services based on reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior technical ownership and escalation support for production and non-production Oracle environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, query analysis, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting.
• Improve monitoring, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery practices.
• Lead root-cause analyses for significant incidents and participate in a shared on-call rotation.
• Establish practical standards for database architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• Review major schema changes, migrations, procedural objects, and database designs in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Develop modernization strategies for the existing Oracle environment, evaluating Oracle on AWS, cloud-native services, and alternative database platforms.
• Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce manual work and operational complexity.
• Mentor engineers on relational database design, SQL performance, and database best practices; create reusable documentation, training, and technical patterns.
• Strengthen internal database capabilities and coordinate responsibilities, knowledge sharing, and escalation procedures with the managed services provider.
• Support data pipelines, client conversions, migrations, and major product initiatives, helping teams deliver secure and efficient data movement.
• Manage the technical relationship with the database services provider, defining responsibilities, service expectations, escalation paths, and SLAs while assessing service quality.
• Evaluate database-related vendors, technologies, and services as needed.

Skills

Oracle performance tuning

SQL optimization

Oracle RAC/Data Guard

PL/SQL knowledge

Data modeling

Backup & DR

Security & PCI

Mentoring

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an experienced database leader to shape the strategy, architecture, and modernization of a complex Oracle environment. In a senior IC role, you will own critical production systems, drive cloud adoption, and mentor engineers while reducing technical debt.

You will partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, secure data platforms and resilient operations, with opportunities to influence long-term technical direction.