Position Description A Technical Architect will serve as the manager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward constant reengineering and refactoring to ensure the simplest and most elegant system possible to accomplish the desired need; understand how to maximize leverage of the open source community to deploy systems on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers; be comfortable sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within various methodologies; and be a full partner in the determination of vision, objectives, and success criteria. The Technical Architect will architect the overall system by using prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include: modern programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails), modern front-end web programming techniques (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, RESTful APIs) and frameworks (e.g., Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle), and “NoSQL” databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB), automated configuration management (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration/deployment, and continuous monitoring solutions; use version control systems (e.g., Git and GitHub); ensure strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, and stay on top of emerging technologies; decompose business and system architecture to support clean-interface multi-team development; develop product roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and write user stories (i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories) and clearly communicate and work with stakeholders at every level.
Skills Required The Technical Architect will possess knowledge and experience in analyses and development of conceptual designs and detail designs; designing DB schema as per the requirements and in sync with the old system; implementing the daily and weekly jobs that interact with external interfaces; coordinating with business stakeholders to understand their requirements; communicate with cross-divisional personnel at both team and executive levels to understand performance measurement methodologies; and direct team members in compiling business requirements and executing project milestones.
Skills Preferred Oracle database system administration skills focused on the Exadata platform; Oracle database performance tuning skills for DBs running on Exadata; Oracle database backup, restore, and disaster recovery design and deployment for DBs on Exadata; Automation of routine manual Oracle database system management tasks; Unix Shell scripting: Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with internal and external management teams, developers, network and infrastructure teams.
Experience Required This classification must have a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in systems development, analysis, programming or testing, Oracle database system management.
Experience Preferred Experience upgrading from Oracle versions18.x and below to 19.x; Experience building and configuring new Oracle DBs in Exadata; Experience planning, deploying, managing Oracle Patch Security Updates for DB on Exadata; Experience configuring and deploying Oracle Grid architecture; Experience configuring, deploying and managing Oracle's Advanced Security Option to maintain databases secure; Experience migrating, Oracle database system deployments from Linux, Unix, to Exadata; Experience using Oracle replication methods such as Data Guard; Experience developing automation scripts using WMI, PowerShell, Perl, Python, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.; Experience with DevOps tool. Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform; Experience designing Oracle database backups, restores, disaster recovery processes using enterprise class backup software solutions such as CommVault; Experience using Oracle Audit Vault and Key Vault, and Oracle Enterprise Manager; Experience configuring and managing Oracle RAC.
Education Required This classification requires the possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.