Database Architect

Position Overview

The Database Architect will serve as the subject matter expert for databases within ACS. They will proactively form and drive a council consisting of database experts and interested parties from across ACS and take personal responsibility for ensuring organizational readiness to deliver high quality database-backed services. They will also work with our infrastructure engineering teams to automate and deploy standards across the database fleet.

You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, AEC Construction and will work remotely based in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Continuously assess our broad database readiness/needs
• Identify significant risks/gaps
• Charter tactical and strategic solutions for our DB platform team to execute
• Introduce improvements in key areas including
  • Proactive capacity management
  • Monitoring/alerting
  • Tuning/pruning
  • Sharding
  • Migrations
  • Schema and query optimization
  • Deadlock resolution
  • Load optimization
  • DB performance
  • Data replication management for reporting
• Create and evangelize/institutionalize general best practices and health models
• Utilize industry standard observability tooling and AWS automation to implement standards across a fleet of databases
• Form a high-impact council of experts from across ACS to leverage as champions
• Provide direct consulting with individual teams as well as COE leads on readiness/risks
• Select/curate appropriate broad training opportunities for ACS Engineering in database technologies/management
• Provide tactical support in the case of true emergencies

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years experience in database architecture and dataplane for enterprise SaaS platform at scale
• Minimum of 8 years of Postgres experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience with cloud data technologies
• Minimum of 5 years experience with NoSQL cloud based architectures
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to share your expertise and influence positive outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a leader and team-builder, comfortable working across a distributed group of service owners who do not report directly to you
• You are a fearless problem-solver and model-driven thinker
• You embrace big challenges and apply rigorous yet efficient methods in your solutions
• You are results-driven, have a strong bias for action and a solid sense of accountability

About Autodesk Construction Solutions

Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer and field. This enables customers to move seamlessly through each phase of the construction lifecycle from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover and operations, with best-in-class Autodesk Construction Cloud solutions. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed up decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

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