Database Architect (remote)

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave, AMER - Canada - New Brunswick -, AMER - Canada - British Columbia -, Montreal, QC +3 · Remote

Autodesk is seeking a Database Architect to serve as the subject matter expert for databases within ACS. This role will involve forming and driving a council of database experts, ensuring organizational readiness for high-quality database-backed services, and working with infrastructure engineering teams to automate and deploy standards across the database fleet. Responsibilities include assessing database readiness, identifying risks, chartering solutions, introducing improvements in areas like capacity management, monitoring, tuning, sharding, migrations, schema optimization, and performance, creating best practices, utilizing observability tooling and AWS automation, and providing consulting and training.

What you'd actually do

  1. Continuously assess our broad database readiness/needs
  2. Identify significant risks/gaps
  3. Charter tactical and strategic solutions for our DB platform team to execute
  4. Introduce improvements in key areas including
  5. Create and evangelize/institutionalize general best practices and health models

Skills

Required

  • database architecture
  • dataplane for enterprise SaaS platform at scale
  • Postgres experience
  • cloud data technologies
  • NoSQL cloud based architectures
  • communication skills
  • organizational skills

Nice to have

  • leader
  • team-builder
  • distributed group of service owners
  • fearless problem-solver
  • model-driven thinker
  • rigorous yet efficient methods
  • results-driven
  • strong bias for action
  • solid sense of accountability