Senior Oracle Exadata Architect - Hybrid On-Prem/Cloud

Citizens Wealth Management Group; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Maternity/paternity leave

Flexible work arrangements

Education reimbursement

Wellness programs

Paid time off policy

Job summary

Citizens Bank in Boston area is seeking a Principal Database Engineer focused on Oracle Exadata, enterprise Oracle platforms, and modern cloud-native databases. You will own architecture, engineering standards, and long-term evolution of the database ecosystem across on-premises Exadata and hybrid/cloud environments.

The role demands hands-on Exadata expertise, strong cost-management awareness, and a strategic mindset to enable analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a Database Engineer/DBA with Oracle Exadata expertise.
• Hands-on Oracle DB administration including RAC, ASM, Data Guard.
• Experience with AWS/Azure and hybrid cloud databases.
• Strong licensing, cost governance, and vendor negotiation skills.
• Experience with Kafka and GoldenGate for data replication/ streaming.
• Ability to design HA/DR architectures and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Own Oracle Exadata environments across DB, compute, storage, networking.
• Define platform strategy, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Lead performance engineering: Smart Scan, HCC, IORM, RAC.
• Design HA/DR architectures using RAC and Data Guard.
• Set observability standards and partner with infrastructure teams.
• Interface with Oracle and vendors; manage licensing strategy.
• Architect cloud and hybrid data platforms on AWS/Azure.
• Enable analytics, ML, and Generative AI workloads.

Skills

Oracle Exadata

SQL performance tuning

Data governance

Cost optimization

Cloud and hybrid data platforms

Leadership

DevOps/DataOps

SRE collaboration

Tools

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

GoldenGate

Kafka

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Job description

Citizens Bank in Boston area is seeking a Principal Database Engineer focused on Oracle Exadata, enterprise Oracle platforms, and modern cloud-native databases. You will own architecture, engineering standards, and long-term evolution of the database ecosystem across on-premises Exadata and hybrid/cloud environments.

The role demands hands-on Exadata expertise, strong cost-management awareness, and a strategic mindset to enable analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI at scale.