Senior Database Architect

Summary

Join DaCodes, a high-impact software and digital transformation firm, as a Database Architect! You will design, optimize, secure, and maintain database schema and infrastructure for enterprise-class SaaS operations. The ideal candidate possesses strong database administration, design, architecture, performance optimization, and security expertise, with experience in cloud database technologies. You will collaborate with engineering teams, ensuring scalability and efficiency while adhering to security and compliance standards. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects with disruptive startups and global brands. Remote work is available, and various benefits are offered.

Requirements

• Easy to work with: An effective communicator, positive team player, and natural collaborator
• 7-9 years of database administration experience in a Saas environment
• MariaDB/MySQL on Amazon RDS and/or Google Cloud SQL, and ElasticSearch
• Deep understanding and application of database security best practices, encryption, access control, and compliance requirements including GDPR
• Experience implementing reliable backup, restore, and disaster recovery
• Proven track record of optimizing complex queries, indexing strategies, and caching mechanisms
• Ability to assist in the design of scalable and efficient database schemas
• Experience in establishing database monitoring tools and processes
• Experience in automation and infrastructure scripting using Python, Bash, or Terraform
• Experience supporting or working with data pipeline architectures
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize database schema and performance, ensuring high security, availability, and scalability
• Implement and enforce database security and integrity best practices, access controls, and compliance policies such as GDPR and PCI-DSS
• Develop, test, and maintain backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for business continuity
• Set up and manage database monitoring tools, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks
• Proactively analyze and optimize queries to enhance performance and reduce system load and collaborate
• Research, plan, and execute cloud database migrations between leading platforms including Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL
• Develop automation scripts for database maintenance, monitoring, and infrastructure provisioning
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, efficient, and well-structured databases, and to optimize query and transaction processing
• Guide and support development of data pipelines and ETL processes
• Work with developers, DevOps engineers, and product teams to align database strategies with business needs

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree: Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred

Benefits

• Remote work / Home office
• If a hybrid or on-site model is required, you will be informed from the first session
• Work schedule aligned with the assigned project/team
• Monday to Friday schedule
• Legal benefits (Applicable for Mexico)
• Day off on your birthday
• Private health insurance (Applicable for Mexico)
• Life insurance (Applicable for Mexico)
• Multicultural teams
• Access to courses and certifications
• Meetups with industry experts and top universities
• Virtual networking events and interest groups
• English classes
• Opportunities within our different business lines
• Proudly certified as a Great Place to Work