Autodesk
Technology
DatabaseArchitect
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“Database Architect at Autodesk. Skills: Database architecture, Data platform. Assess database readiness/needs. Identify risks/gaps”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver high quality database-backed services
Industry & Context.
Problem-solver
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8 years experience in database architecture, 8 years of Postgres experience, 5 years experience with cloud data technologies, 5 years experience with NoSQL cloud based architectures, Excellent communication and organizational skills
Nice to Have
Leader and team-builder, Fearless problem-solver, Model-driven thinker, Embrace big challenges, Rigorous yet efficient methods, Bias for action, Solid sense of accountability
What You'll Do.
Assess database readiness/needs
Charter tactical solutions
Charter strategic solutions
Introduce improvements
Manage capacity proactively
Implement monitoring/alerting
Perform tuning/pruning
Ensure DB performance
Manage data replication
Create best practices
Evangelize best practices
Institutionalize best practices
Form council of experts
Provide direct consulting
Select training opportunities
Curate training opportunities
Provide tactical support
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Across ACS; With infrastructure engineering; With service owners
Communication Scope
Share expertise
Full Job Description
**Job Requisition ID #** 25WD94341 _La traduction en français se trouve plus bas / The translation French translation can be found below_ **Position Overview** The Database Architect will serve as the subject matter expert for databases within ACS. They will proactively form and drive a council consisting of database experts and interested parties from across ACS and take personal responsibility for ensuring organizational readiness to deliver high quality database-backed services. They will also work with our infrastructure engineering teams to automate and deploy standards across the database fleet. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, AEC Construction and will work remotely based in Canada. **Responsibilities** * Continuously assess our broad database readiness/needs * Identify significant risks/gaps * Charter tactical and strategic solutions for our DB platform team to execute * Introduce improvements in key areas including * Proactive capacity management * Monitoring/alerting * Tuning/pruning * Sharding * Migrations * Schema and query optimization * Deadlock resolution * Load optimization * DB performance * Data replication management for reporting * Create and evangelize/institutionalize general best practices and health models * Utilize industry standard observability tooling and AWS automation to implement standards across a fleet of databases * Form a high-impact council of experts from across ACS to leverage as champions * Provide direct consulting with individual teams as well as COE leads on readiness/risks * Select/curate appropriate broad training opportunities for ACS Engineering in database technologies/management * Provide tactical support in the case of true emergencies **Minimum Qualifications** * Minimum of 8 years experience in database architecture and dataplane for enterprise SaaS platform at scale * Minimum of 8 years of Postgres experience * Minimum of 5 years experience with cloud data technologies * Minimum of 5 years experie
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