Database Architect

Title: Database Architect

Location: United States - Manassas (9615 Center Point Ln, VA 20110 Manassas, United States)

Description

Storage & Database Architect

SWIFT is a global member-owned cooperative and the world s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance. Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organizations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories.

We are taking another leap forward fundamentally transforming payments and securities processing to help our customers navigate the complex challenges they face today and remain prepared well into the future.

Over the next two years and beyond, we are set to deliver on an exciting strategic roadmap for and with our global community that will expand SWIFT capabilities beyond financial messaging to provide a platform for comprehensive transaction management services.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Storage and Database Architect who will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of both relational and non-relational database systems.

The ideal candidate possesses strong expertise in Oracle RAC, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), Cassandra, and has extensive hands-on experience with cloud-based database solutions including managed databases, database-as-a-service (DBaaS), and cloud-native databases.

This role is also responsible for designing, integrating, and governing scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that supports business-critical applications across hybrid environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design high-performance, resilient data storage and database architectures for on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Architect and design end-to-end solutions integrating storage platforms with relational and non-relational databases.
• Partner with engineering, DevOps, and business teams to assess requirements and translate them into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, object, cloud-based) aligned with data platform needs.
• Provide governance and technical leadership in data availability, integrity, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on best practices in data management, storage optimization, and compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, reference models, and solution blueprints.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization across storage and database platforms.
• Design cloud-compatible database architectures using Oracle RAC, Oracle ExaCC, Oracle GoldenGate, Cassandra, Amazon RDS, Azure Database, Google Cloud SQL, and other cloud-native database solutions.
• Provide expertise in migrating, managing, and maintaining database solutions across cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Evaluate, recommend, and integrate new database technologies and strategies, including serverless databases, managed database services, and data warehousing solutions.
• Ensure compliance with industry best practices related to data security, availability, performance, and disaster recovery across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze data needs, and provide strategic database solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend the right backend storage technology and architecture to meet the IO needs of database and applications.
• Mentor database administrators and developers to adopt best practices in database design, backup and recovery solutions, cloud integration, and management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in database architecture and administration.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC, Oracle ExaCC, Oracle GoldenGate and Apache Cassandra.
• Proven expertise in designing and deploying relational and non-relational database solutions, including NoSQL databases.
• Solid experience working with cloud infrastructure, specifically with managed database services such as OCI Autonomous Database, AWS Aurora, Azure Cosmos DB, and Google Cloud Platform Bigtable.
• Excellent knowledge of database performance tuning, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery strategies in cloud environments.
• Exposure to secret management tools such as Hashicorp and Oracle KeyVault.
• Strong expertise in the area of SQL and NoSQL databases observability in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of compliance standards such as CIS both for OS and databases.
• Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage) and database technologies (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and their storage/database offerings (e.g., S3, RDS, Azure SQL).
• Experience designing solutions with high availability, replication, and disaster recovery in mind.
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.

Technical Skills

• Experience managing hybrid and multi-cloud database environments.
• Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, and modern analytics platforms.
• Exposure to tools, such as Jira, Ansible, Xray, Robot Framework, Cloudbees, Jenkins, ServiceNow,
• Enterprise secret mgmt. tools, Confluence, MS Office.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and persistent storage integration (CSI drivers).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Familiarity with Red Hat supporting infrastructure vRA/VROps
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), AWS Certified Database Specialty, Azure Database certifications, or related certifications.