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Principal - Database Product Architect

Location

India

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Oracle

Website: oracle.com
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Key Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the technical architecture and roadmap for Oracle and multi-cloud database products across on-premises, OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Translate business and customer requirements into product-level architectures, reference designs, and standardized blueprints.
  • Define and govern migration and modernization frameworks using GoldenGate, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, ZDM, and snapshot standby to enable minimal or zero downtime.
  • Design high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures for mission-critical workloads.
  • Establish platform standards for performance engineering, capacity planning, observability, backup/DR, and security.
  • Architect cloud-native database solutions, including network segregation, storage (OCI FSS, Storage Gateway), security, automation, and integration patterns.
  • Act as architectural design authority, conducting design reviews, approving solutions, and maintaining architectural decision records (ADRs).
  • Mentor senior DBAs and architects while supporting strategic customer and presales engagements with clear, value-driven solution architectures.

Qualifications & Skills

Mandatory

  • 12–15+ years of experience in Oracle database engineering/administration in large enterprise environments.
  • Deep expertise in Oracle 10g/11g/12c/19c/23ai, including internals, HA, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.
  • Hands-on experience designing and executing large-scale migrations using GoldenGate, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, ZDM, and snapshot standby.
  • Proven experience owning or influencing database architecture, platforms, or product-level designs (beyond day-to-day DBA operations).
  • Experience architecting database solutions on OCI and at least one additional hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Strong understanding of enterprise security, compliance, capacity planning, and SLA-driven design.
  • Oracle Database Administrator certification (12c or later) – mandatory.

Good-to-Have

  • OCI Architect Associate and/or OCI Operations certification.
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent cloud certification.
  • Experience with DBaaS platforms, managed services, or catalog-based offerings.
  • Exposure to Fusion Applications databases and shared infrastructure designs.
  • Experience with additional RDBMS platforms (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL).
  • Presales experience, including architecture workshops, RFP/RFI responses, and executive presentations.

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Skills

AWS
Azure
capacity planning
compliance
database
Fusion
GCP
Oracle
PostgreSQL
presales
SQL
technical architecture