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Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.\nData Store Strategy, Architecture, and Standards\nDefine and maintain the strategy, standards, and operating model for relational + non-relational data stores supporting Rite-Hite ONE.\nEstablish practical standards for data modeling, schema design, migrations, indexing, query patterns, retention, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.\nGuide architecture decisions and service-to-data-store integration patterns to improve scalability, consistency, and maintainability.\nRecommend platform choices and evolution paths for operational databases and analytics workloads (e.g., BigQuery or equivalent), balancing usability, performance, and cost.\nReliability and Operations\nDefine standards for HA, backup/restore, disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity for production systems.\nEstablish monitoring/alerting, health checks, operational dashboards, and incident response practices for data stores.\nLead troubleshooting of complex performance, stability, capacity, and recoverability issues and drive corrective actions.\nPartner with DevOps/platform teams to automate provisioning, migrations, maintenance, and release workflows.\nSecurity, Data Protection, and Trust\nDefine and enforce secure practices for access control, encryption, secrets handling, logging, and administrative operations.\nEstablish controls for protecting sensitive and business-critical data across environments (least privilege, segregation of duties, backup protection).\nPartner with security/compliance stakeholders to support audit readiness (SOC 2 / ISO 27001), including evidence collection for access, change management, logging, backups, and recovery.\nPerformance and AI-Enabled Automation\nEstablish performance management practices: query optimization, indexing strategy, workload review, configuration tuning, and capacity planning.\nApply AI-assisted tools to improve troubleshooting, analysis, documentation, and operational efficiency-ensuring outputs are reviewed, validated, and secure.\nDrive improvements that reduce manual effort, increase consistency, and strengthen production readiness across database-backed services.\nCollaboration, Enablement, and Documentation\nCollaborate with engineering, product, architecture, DevOps, IT, and security teams to align data-store decisions with platform needs.\nDocument standards, architecture decisions, runbooks, recovery expectations, and operational guidance.\nMentor engineers on data modeling, query efficiency, migrations, and secure data handling.\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES\nNo direct reports initially. Provides technical leadership and serves as the primary authority for data-store strategy, standards, and operational practices across Rite-Hite ONE.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor’s degree in a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).\n7+ years in database engineering/DBA/data platform roles supporting production systems.\nStrong foundations in data modeling, SQL, performance tuning, reliability, backup/restore, and disaster recovery.\nExperience establishing standards and operating practices in a growing product/platform environment.\nStrong collaboration and communication skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with GCP managed data services and analytics warehouses (e.g., BigQuery).\nExperience with non-relational data stores (document, key-value, time-series, etc.).\nExperience integrating data-store changes into CI/CD and audited environments (SOC 2 / ISO 27001).\nExperience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly in production environments.\nWhat We Offer\nAt Rite-Hite, we take care of our people - because when you’re supported, you can do your best work. 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