Database Architect
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About DANA
DANA is a leading Indonesian digital wallet platform committed to making every transaction simple, secure, and accessible. As a homegrown fintech company, we serve millions across Indonesia with cashless solutions—from payments and transfers to investments. We aim to build a trusted and inclusive financial ecosystem, driven by innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Join us and be part of Indonesia’s digital transformation journey!
📌 What We’re Looking For: Database Architect
We are looking for a Database Architect to design and lead scalable, high-performance, and resilient database systems that support large-scale, mission-critical platforms. This role will drive architecture strategy, optimize performance and cost, ensure high availability and security, and provide technical leadership across teams to enable reliable and future-ready data infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy: Define and own the enterprise database architecture blueprint while establishing standards, design patterns, and best practices.
Infrastructure Design: Design scalable, resilient, and distributed database systems.
Availability & Recovery: Develop and execute high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including failovers.
Cost & Budget Management: Manage infrastructure budget planning and drive cost optimization strategies, such as license and cloud resource efficiency. Performance & Capacity: Lead performance optimization and capacity planning to ensure system health and uptime.
Security & Compliance: Ensure data security, governance, and compliance through regular architecture reviews.
Observability: Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks to quickly respond to issues.
Modernization: Drive modernization initiatives including cloud migration, automation, and containerization.
Technical Advisory: Act as a technical advisor to stakeholders and leadership while providing mentorship to project members.
Platform Management: Oversee day-to-day operations and project development within specific platform projects.
Requirements
8–12 years of experience in database engineering, with 3–5 years in an architect or senior level role.
Proven track record of making significant contributions to navigating complex issues within a large-scale platform.
Demonstrated experience in infrastructure cost analysis, capacity planning, and technology budget management.
Experience in overseeing day-to-day operations and managing platform project development.
Strong expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL.
Advanced proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and designing distributed scalable systems.
Expertise in HA/DR strategies, performance tuning, and database security protocols.
Mastery in developing complex stored procedures, functions, and views for system enhancements.
Strategic Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills to generate solutions for complex issues and monitor their implementation.
Leadership & Influence: Ability to influence stakeholders and serve as a technical guideline/mentor for teams.
Proactive Planning: Proactively seeking feature development opportunities and prioritizing plans aligned with the budget.