Database Solution Architect

Job Description

1. Be a subject matter expert on databases, particularly on Relational Databases, able to discuss with customers on database modelling, migration, performance testing, and day-to-day operations.
2. Have wide-ranging experience with open source and commercial databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.
3. Be familiar with major cloud service providers for deployment of workloads (AWS, Alicloud, GCP, Azure).
4. Be a technical expert on all aspects of OceanBase (compatibility assessment, deployment, administration, development, migration).
5. Facilitate introduction, discussion, and demonstration of OceanBase’s technology, vision, and value proposition either via individual or group sessions with customers.
6. Engage and discover prospects’ pain points, business/technical challenges and identify how OceanBase can add value.
7. Run Proof of Concept projects with customers to validate OceanBase’s capabilities and support post-sale OceanBase implementation with the OceanBase delivery team.
8. Maintain a deep understanding of competitive as well as complementary technologies and how to position OceanBase DB in relation to them.
9. Provide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges.
10. Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve OceanBase product and position in the market.

Requirements

1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or a comparable field is preferred.
2. Passion and energy to thrive in a dynamic, disruptive, fast-paced, and energetic environment.
3. Strong communication skills and adaptability, able to communicate with customers independently, understand customer requirements, and propose technical solutions.
4. More than five years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role. Ideally, 2+ years as a solution architect at an established database technology company or company with a mature cloud DB offering.
5. Database Administrator or Architect prior experience preferred.
6. Able to write, analyze, and optimize SQL, particularly for MySQL and/or Oracle databases.
7. Familiarity with mainstream database products, including Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, Google Spanner, and proficiency in at least one of them. Experience in one or more public cloud environments.
8. Experience working with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams including direct and channel marketing, solution architect teams, product management, and account management teams.
9. Willingness and ability to travel for work, role covers ASEAN and beyond.
10. Bonus: Application development experience in Java, Python, NodeJS, .NET, etc.