Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Database Architect (DBA Architect) to design, develop, implement, and manage enterprise-grade database architectures. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in database administration, data modeling, performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, database security, and cloud database platforms.

The candidate will collaborate with application architects, infrastructure teams, developers, and business stakeholders to ensure database solutions are scalable, secure, highly available, and aligned with business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement scalable, high-performance database architectures for enterprise applications.
- Develop database strategies, standards, policies, and best practices.
- Manage database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and migration.
- Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning.
- Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Define backup, restoration, replication, and business continuity strategies.
- Ensure database security, access control, encryption, auditing, and regulatory compliance.
- Lead database migration, modernization, and cloud adoption initiatives.
- Develop logical and physical data models, schemas, and database design standards.
- Monitor database health, troubleshoot complex issues, and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams on database integration, CI/CD, and automation.
- Evaluate database technologies and recommend suitable solutions based on business and technical needs.




- Mentor database administrators and engineers and provide technical leadership.

Required Technical Skills

Database Technologies

- Strong experience with one or more enterprise databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or IBM Db2. ( work experience on SQL & Oracle/IBM DB2 are mandatory)
- Expertise in SQL, PL/SQL or T-SQL, stored procedures, triggers, and query execution plans.
- Robust knowledge of relational database design, normalization, indexing, partitioning, and data modeling.

Database Administration & Architecture

- Database performance tuning and optimization.
- High availability, clustering, replication, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Database security, access management, and auditing.
- Database capacity planning, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Database consolidation, migration, and version upgrades.

Cloud & Modern Technologies

- Experience with cloud database services such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or Google Cloud SQL.
- Knowledge of cloud database architecture, scalability, availability, and cost optimization.
- Familiarity with automation, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB is an advantage.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10–15 years of relevant database experience, including architecture and administration responsibilities.
- Proven experience designing and supporting mission-critical enterprise databases.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

📌 DBA Architect (Kolkata)
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