Principal - Database Product Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the

  technical architecture and roadmap

  for Oracle and multi-cloud database products across on-premises, OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Translate business and customer requirements into

  product-level architectures, reference designs, and standardized blueprints

  .
• Define and govern

  migration and modernization frameworks

  using GoldenGate, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, ZDM, and snapshot standby to enable minimal or zero downtime.
• Design

  high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures

  for mission-critical workloads.
• Establish platform standards for

  performance engineering, capacity planning, observability, backup/DR, and security

  .
• Architect

  cloud-native database solutions

  , including network segregation, storage (OCI FSS, Storage Gateway), security, automation, and integration patterns.
• Act as

  architectural design authority

  , conducting design reviews, approving solutions, and maintaining architectural decision records (ADRs).
• Mentor senior DBAs and architects while supporting

  strategic customer and presales engagements

  with clear, value-driven solution architectures.

Qualifications & Skills

Mandatory

• 12–15+ years

  of experience in Oracle database engineering/administration in large enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in

  Oracle 10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai

  , including internals, HA, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing

  large-scale migrations

  using GoldenGate, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, ZDM, and snapshot standby.
• Proven experience owning or influencing

  database architecture, platforms, or product-level designs

  (beyond day-to-day DBA operations).
• Experience architecting database solutions on

  OCI

  and at least one additional hyperscaler (

  AWS, Azure, or GCP

  ).
• Strong understanding of

  enterprise security, compliance, capacity planning, and SLA-driven design

  .

• Oracle Database Administrator certification (12c or later)

  – mandatory.

Good-to-Have

• OCI Architect Associate and/or OCI Operations certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent cloud certification.
• Experience with

  DBaaS platforms, managed services, or catalog-based offerings

  .
• Exposure to

  Fusion Applications databases

  and shared infrastructure designs.
• Experience with additional RDBMS platforms (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL).
• Presales experience, including architecture workshops, RFP/RFI responses, and executive presentations.