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Key Responsibilities - Work closely with Product & Development teams to define, analyze and capture business needs
- Documents data requirements and maintains data models to ensure seamless integration into existing data architectures
- Manages data assets as per the enterprise standards, guidelines and policies
- Documents Data processing requirements inclusive of data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements
- Creates and maintains detailed information about the data being stored in the database
- Understands the database requirements and translate into physical database design.
- Follows data placement procedures to identify best database product for the given requirements and re-use of existing databases when possible
- Builds and enhances database design and infrastructure required to support the Business portfolio
- Performs database design review and supports database testing
- Provides production environment support for database systems and processes
- Communicates and works collaboratively by influencing business and product teams in deriving the Functional & Non-Functional requirements
- Work on assigned database features for ongoing sprints and manage database requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
- Partner with delivery architects and engineers to design optimal data tier solutions to meet platform objectives and goals
- Function as an active member in an agile team through consistent development practices (tools, components, and documentation)
- Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
Education & Technology core competencies - Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field required, advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of Data Modeling & Architecture, Database Administration experience in a professional environment is expected.
- Hands-on Experience in performing Logical & Physical Data models using any Data modeling tools including ER Studio, Hackolade are expected.
- Hands-on experience handling database administration activities is recommended, including capacity planning, schema design & implementation, backup and recovery, testing, performance tuning, troubleshooting etc database development lifecycle activities for
- NoSQL Databases such as Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB databases
- Relational Databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer
- Practical experience with Data Architecture to translate business data requirements into data models (Conceptual, Logical, Physical) and using data modeling tools.
- Experience in Data modeling & DB Administration activities on one of the public cloud platform databases including AWS, GCP, and Azure are preferred.
- Experience in Database Automation using any programming language and/or tools like Ansible is preferred
- Extensive experience in Linux based DB performance monitoring by using system tools, security setup, troubleshooting and performance tuning as necessary to ensure optimum performance, patching of Linux based DB servers on regular schedule
- Ability to use DB CI/CD to deploy Schema changes, use log aggregation tools like Splunk etc for troubleshooting
- Demonstrated experience in learning new Database technologies in a short time span.
- Experience in change management, Incident management, RFC, Problem management & RCA