Senior Database Architect- Remote

Salary: $130,000-$150,000 + bonus eligible

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Job Summary

The Compass Platform Services Senior Database Architect – MySQL will be a highly experienced MySQL Database Architect with expertise in Performance Tuning, Database design and other DBA responsibilities.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Create standards and recommend database features that can be leveraged for performance and scalability
• Proactively review databases and identify areas of improvement in current systems (optimization of views, stored procedures, indexes, fragmentation etc.)
• Work with application development teams to optimize slow performing queries
• Design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production, test/development, and QA database environments while ensuring high levels of data availability. 
• Define database development standards and work with application development teams to plan implementation
• Review functional and maintenance jobs and recommend and drive for improvements
• Review database settings and work with System DBA to make sure the settings are optimal
• Work with System DBA and Architect on defining and standardizing security best practices
• Monitor and Audit databases regularly to maintain quality
• Engage with development teams on database design and review database changes to make sure they align with architecture standards
• Recommend efficient tooling for development, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Create roadmap for database patching and upgrades and utilize new technology/features available with upcoming database versions
• Provide technical leadership to drive and ensure adoption/consistency of best practices across multiple teams
• Collaborate with Compass IT Security Architecture to ensure the Dev team follows standards and best practices
• Participate in Incident triages & on-call rotations.

Job Qualifications

• Expertise in Performance Analysis & Tuning of MySQL databases
• Expertise in System & Dev DBA responsibilities of MySQL, …