[Hiring] Cloud Database Architect V @Availity

Role Description

As a Cloud Database Architect V, you will define the enterprise cloud database strategy and lead architecture, modernization, and optimization across the organization. In partnership with engineering, security, and platform teams, you will design scalable, reliable database solutions for healthcare applications serving millions of users. This role is suited to an architect who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to set direction, influence stakeholders, and lead enterprise transformation.

Location: Remote, US

Why you want to work on this team:

• You enjoy solving complex scalability, reliability, and performance challenges across enterprise cloud database platforms.
• You want to shape the future of healthcare by building the resilient data foundations that power critical industry services.
• You are passionate about leading database platform architecture that enables engineering teams to deliver business innovation faster and more reliably.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, or architecture, including 5+ years designing cloud-native database solutions.
• Proven experience designing and implementing mission-critical database platforms for large-scale workloads in public cloud environments.
• Proficiency with AWS required.
• Experience with additional cloud providers preferred (Azure, GCP).
• Deep expertise in at least two enterprise database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) including data modeling, performance tuning, and scalable design.
• Extensive experience with AWS database services, including RDS and Aurora, and selecting supporting technologies such as DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, and DMS.
• Experience architecting highly available database solutions with disaster recovery and multi-region capabilities.
• Proven success leading database modernization and cloud migration initiatives at enterprise scale.
• Experience applying Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD practices to database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, schema changes, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of database security, governance, compliance, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Ability to assess existing environments, document technical debt, and develop transition roadmaps to future-state architecture.
• Expertise in query optimization, workload analysis, capacity planning, and cloud database cost optimization.
• Experience defining database observability standards, including metrics, logging, alerting, service-level indicators, and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated success influencing technical direction, leading cross-functional initiatives, and developing database engineering talent.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, a current AWS database-focused certification, or an equivalent credential preferred.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards and interoperability requirements preferred.

Requirements

• Define and drive the enterprise cloud database strategy, architecture standards, and architecture roadmap to improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient database solutions aligned with application workloads and business objectives.
• Lead enterprise database modernization and migration initiatives, including assessments, solution design, validation, cutover planning, rollback strategies, and adoption activities.
• Architect resilient database solutions with high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region capabilities to meet business continuity requirements.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards for database governance, security, compliance, backup, recovery, and operational readiness.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend when to adopt, standardize, retain, or retire platforms throughout their lifecycle.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering teams to identify cross-platform dependencies, resolve design tradeoffs, and coordinate implementation decisions.
• Provide technical leadership through architectural guidance, mentorship, reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards.
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders to translate strategic objectives into prioritized database capabilities, platform investments, and architecture roadmaps.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus structure.
• Generous HSA company contribution.
• Healthcare, vision, dental benefits.
• 401k match program available from day one.
• Unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays.
• Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO with all holiday benefits.
• Reimbursement up to $250/year for gym memberships, racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Education reimbursement available.
• Paid Parental Leave for both birth and adoptive parents.
• Opportunities to engage in community service and volunteer activities.