Database Administrator

• Develop and enforce database design standards, best practices, and governance policies to ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity.
• Design and develop the conceptual, logical, and physical data models for new and existing applications, aligning them with business requirements and enterprise data strategy.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive data architecture roadmap, outlining a long-term vision for our data infrastructure.
• Architect and manage replication and failover strategies for both NoSQL and RDBMS systems to ensure high availability and business continuity.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives, including complex query tuning, index optimization, and database configuration adjustments.
• Design and implement robust data solutions in a hybrid cloud environment, with a strong focus on cloud-native services such as Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Amazon RDS, Couchbase.
• Architect data migration strategies to and from on-premise and cloud platforms with minimal downtime and data loss.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud Engineering teams to integrate database systems into automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions.
• Review and approve database designs and code changes from development teams to ensure adherence to architectural standards.
• Stay current with emerging database technologies and industry trends to recommend innovative solutions.

Database Reliability Architect

• Design and implement secure, scalable, multi-tenant database architectures for healthcare SaaS applications
• Develop data models and storage solutions for sensitive healthcare data (PHI, PII/PPI)
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, and other relevant regulations
• Implement data encryption (at rest and in transit), masking, and access controls
• Architect systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and auditability
• Define and enforce data governance, retention, and audit logging policies
• Optimize database performance for large-scale healthcare datasets and real-time access
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to meet regulatory requirements
• Lead data migration and integration with EHR/EMR systems and third-party healthcare platforms
• Comply best practices for secure CI/CD pipelines involving database changes
• Monitor systems for data integrity, breaches, and anomalous access patterns

Senior Staff Database Architect

• Serve as a senior technical authority responsible for the performance, integrity, availability, and security of USANA’s Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database environments, including leading on-premises to AWS RDS cloud migration
• Design, implement, and manage Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases with a focus on high availability, reliability, and peak performance
• Conduct regular system audits, capacity planning, and performance tuning — including query optimization, index strategy, and wait-event analysis
• Administer clustering, Always On Availability Groups (AOAG), and replication technologies to ensure continuous data availability
• Maintain robust backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery strategies and regularly validate recoverability targets (RTO/RPO)
• Lead and execute on-premises to AWS RDS migration, covering Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads
• Architect and implement AWS RDS and Aurora configurations, including Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, and automated backups
• Configure AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for schema translation and data transfer
• Develop and maintain advanced Python and Bash automation scripts using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate development
• Design, build, and implement end-to-end automated AI workflows using enterprise AI agent and MCP platforms such as TrueFoundry
• Develop, implement, and enforce database security policies including role-based access control, auditing, data masking, and encryption standards
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and certificates using AWS Secrets Manager and organizational vault solutions
• Collaborate with IT, application development, and data engineering teams to align database architecture with business strategy
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior and mid-level DBAs
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical database incidents and provide timely escalation and resolution

Senior Database Administrator

• As the Platform Database Administrator (DBA) for Aurora, serve as the architectural and operational anchor for high-scale database environments.
• Bridge the gap between technical data layers and production feature engineering.
• Take full ownership of database performance tuning, optimization strategies, and system reliability across core software suites.
• Sustain consistent system performance and reliability across 400+ database schemas, managing comprehensive schema migrations and tracking client-specific data growth metrics.
• Supervise AWS Aurora-specific environments, orchestrating cluster endpoint routing configurations, managing failover behaviors, executing parameter tuning, and troubleshooting data warehouse / read replica lags.
• Apply deep knowledge of InnoDB core internals to manage lock behaviors, resolve complex lock contentions, adjust buffer pool parameters, and systematically reduce purge lags across write-heavy database clusters.
• Diagnose and optimize heavy database pipelines utilizing INSERT...SELECT queries and computed-table patterns.
• Analyze Aurora instance utilization models against pricing factors to right-size compute resources and minimize I/O waste stemming from unoptimized queries.

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