Our partner is one of the leading technology providers for the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry and operates as a product and platform company, delivering a comprehensive portfolio of IT hardware, software, and cloud services to businesses of all sizes. With headquarters in Switzerland and a network spanning over 30 countries, their innovative solutions connect manufacturers and resellers, enabling seamless access to the latest technology products and services. In 2023, net sales of this company amounted to 11.1 billion euros and they employ about 4000 people.
They are looking for a Database Architect to help them to transform their IT applications into a unified platform. In this role, you will provide direction and guidance to development teams, ensuring a centralized approach to data architecture, monitoring performance, and enhancing overall optimization practices. Additionally, you will collaborate with Lead Data Engineer, DevOps and multiple domain teams to implement best practices for database management, data quality, and disaster recovery, while driving innovation toward modern cloud solutions like Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Their offer:
- Annual salary offer can be up to 90,000 EUR gross (approx. 385,000 PLN or 176,000 BGN) depending on your experience and skill set. If your salary expectations exceed this amount, please let us know;
- Permanent full-time standard employment (preferred). For candidates from Poland, besides standard employment, a full-time B2B contract is also an option;
- Remote, hybrid, on-site work depending on your location and personal preference as long as you are located either in Poland, Portugal, Latvia, Bulgaria or Germany as they have offices in all these countries;
- You will have an Individual Development Plan and learning budget for personal development, training and certifications;
- Health insurance, employee discounts and special conditions with various cooperation partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a consulting bridge across teams, guiding database architecture optimisation and best practices.
- Support database operations, including availability group management, security, performance tuning, and backup/recovery strategies.
- Participate in leading the PaaS (Azure DB) migration and transition project to a modern Data Warehouse solution, optimising for cloud performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with developers and the Lead Data Engineer on DB refactoring, data retention, and performance improvements.
- Enable self-service DB provisioning for DevOps, define guidelines, training and support to development teams for best practices.
- Collaborate with the development teams to design and implement solutions for monitoring, issue management, and disaster recovery; support DB management in microservices (e.g., Kubernetes).
Requirements:
- You are either a Senior Database Administrator/Engineer or a Database Architect with extensive expertise in either MS SQL or Oracle databases. Additionally, candidates should have any amount of hands-on experience with the other database system (MS SQL or Oracle).
- Hands-on experience in at least two of the following: High Availability Group Management; DB support for PaaS solutions; DB refactoring.
- Expertise in database performance tuning and troubleshooting, for example, with Azure environments but could be with other.
- Proficiency in backup/recovery management, monitoring, and security management, preferably across multi-database environments.
- Experience in self-service DB provisioning and in collaboration with Developers and/or DevOps.
- At least some familiarity with microservice environments and organizational practices for managing multiple databases.
- Strong communication skills in English with the ability to build transparent and trust-based relationships with colleagues.
Not mandatory to apply, but nice-to-have:
- Participation in a project related to database architecture design for cloud migration.
