[Hiring] Database Architect @Rush Street Interactive

Role Description

RSI is seeking a Database Architect to help shape and grow the company's database platform through guidance, enablement, and collaboration. This role works alongside DBAs, engineers, and analytics teams to develop shared standards, foster good architectural thinking, and help teams make confident, well-informed decisions about database design.

A key focus of the role is helping teams understand and adopt data contracts — versioned agreements that describe schemas, semantics, quality expectations, SLAs, and change policies. Rather than mandating compliance, the Architect acts as a trusted advisor and internal expert, building the knowledge and tooling that makes doing the right thing the easy thing.

The Database Architect works closely with database engineering, product engineering, infrastructure platform, and BI & Analytics teams, influencing through expertise, mentorship, and practical enablement.

What You'll Do:

• Architecture and Standards
  • Develop and share database architecture patterns and best practices for schema design, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
  • Lead collaborative efforts to define data contracts for in-house products.
  • Create decision frameworks and reference materials that help teams design compliant and scalable database solutions independently.
• Governance and Data Quality
  • Champion data contract principles by helping teams understand their value and how to apply them.
  • Partner with Analytics, product, and security teams to explore how contract metadata, validations, and policy checks can be woven into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Support teams in managing versioning, deprecation, and change notifications.
• Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Join architecture and design conversations early in the development lifecycle.
  • Work alongside engineers and DBAs to integrate data contracts into tooling and monitoring.
• Enablement and Coaching
  • Mentor engineers and DBAs on data contract design.
  • Develop reusable frameworks, templates, and examples for data contracts.
  • Serve as a go-to resource and sounding board on database architecture topics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in database design, data modelling or database engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle preferred).
• Experience with database architecture design patterns, data modelling standards, high-availability strategies, and schema evolution.
• Comfortable working in cloud-first or hybrid environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A collaborative, patient approach to working with teams.
• Able to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation.
• Work-life balance initiatives.
• Autonomy – we embrace personal freedom and responsibility.
• Creativity – we are open to new ideas of how we can be better.
• Growth – we want you to develop personally as well as professionally.
• Top-notch professionals who are passionate about what they do.
• People-oriented environment and supportive atmosphere.

Company Description

Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.

As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a huge impact on our product and our company. We like proactive team members and strive to have a company of self-disciplined professionals who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and of course, achieving together what others believe to be improbable.

Rush Street Interactive is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.