[Hiring] Lead Cloud Database Architect @Rackspace

Role Description

A strategic leadership role driving database modernization through AI-powered solutions, automation excellence, and accelerator-driven delivery. This position builds next-generation teams that deliver high-quality migration services across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

• AI-Driven Migration: Leverage AI tools for schema conversion, code optimization, workload analysis, and intelligent automation
• Accelerator Development: Build and integrate reusable frameworks, templates, and tools to standardize and fast-track migrations
• Presales & Solutioning: Drive sales calls, estimate migration efforts, and present compelling solutions to prospects and executives
• Automation Excellence: Automation-first mindset using IaC, CI/CD, and scripting to maximize team capacity and delivery quality
• Quality Delivery: Deliver consistent, high-quality migrations with minimal downtime through proven methodologies

Qualifications

• AI-powered migration tools (schema conversion, code remediation, query optimization)
• Intelligent workload analysis and migration planning
• AI assistants and copilots for database optimization and troubleshooting
• Cloud-native tools: AWS DMS/SCT, Azure DMS, GCP Database Migration Service
• Third-party solutions: Striim, Quest, Informatica, and similar platforms
• Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, Python, Shell scripting
• CI/CD pipelines for database deployments
• Database platforms: SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL (Architecture, HADR, Performance Tuning)
• Cloud expertise: AWS, Azure, GCP (on-prem to cloud, cloud-to-cloud migrations)
• Documentation: HLD/LLD diagrams, runbooks, flow charts, estimation templates

Requirements

• Lead and mentor database architects to deliver program excellence
• Foster innovation culture with focus on AI adoption and continuous improvement
• Build high-performance teams through automation best practices and knowledge sharing
• Establish industry-leading standards for database migration services

Benefits

• AI-First Approach: Uses AI to accelerate every phase of migration
• Accelerator Mindset: Builds tools that multiply team productivity
• Sales Enabler: Drives revenue through compelling technical presentations
• Automation Champion: Optimizes processes for quality and capacity
• Quality Obsessed: Delivers consistent, high-standard results

Company Description

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.

Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.