Database Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION – DATABASE LEAD

Role Overview

Responsible for database architecture, design, governance, optimization, and operational management across both NoSQL and SQL database platforms. The role focuses on ensuring scalability, performance, security, availability, and data integrity for enterprise applications and cloud-native solutions.

Key Responsibilities

•Design and manage enterprise database architecture across MongoDB and SQL databases

•Define data modeling standards and database design best practices

•Lead database scalability, replication, clustering, and high-availability initiatives

•Optimize database performance through query tuning and indexing strategies

•Design backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions

•Implement database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements

•Support data migration, integration, and modernization initiatives

•Collaborate with application, cloud, DevOps, and analytics teams

•Define monitoring, alerting, and operational processes for database platforms

•Drive database automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption

•Establish governance for data lifecycle management and retention policies

•Support cloud-native database deployments and managed database services

•Establish monitoring and performance management practices

•Mentor database engineers and administrators

Required Skills

•Strong expertise in MongoDB architecture, administration, replication, and sharding

•Strong experience with SQL databases such as:

•PostgreSQL

•MySQL

•Microsoft SQL Server

•Oracle Database

•Expertise in database design, normalization, denormalization, and data modeling

•Experience with performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization

•Knowledge of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions

•Experience with database security, encryption, and access management

•Familiarity with cloud database services on AWS and Azure

•Understanding of distributed systems and large-scale data platforms

•Experience with database monitoring and observability tools