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You will be a valued member of the technology and research enablement team and work collaboratively with application architects, product owners, scientists, data engineers, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure teams, and delivery stakeholders to ensure data platforms are scalable, secure, and highly available.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead Oracle database architecture, engineering, modernization, upgrades, migrations, and operational excellence initiatives across business-critical research platforms.\nDesign and optimize logical and physical data models, database schemas, indexing strategies, partitioning approaches, and performance standards.\nDrive database performance, availability, resiliency, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities to support scientific and operational workloads.\nEstablish database security, governance, and compliance controls, including access management, encryption, auditing, and data protection standards.\nPartner with technical and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions, mentor engineering teams, and promote database engineering best practices.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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