Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are looking for an experienced Database Architect to design and govern scalable, secure, and high-performing database solutions across enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in database architecture, data modeling, performance tuning, cloud databases, security, and DevOps-enabled database deployments.
This role will work closely with application teams, DevOps, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to define the right database strategies and ensure robust, future-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design logical, physical, and conceptual data models
- Define database architecture standards, schema design, naming conventions, and best practices
- Design scalable, multi-tenant, and high-availability database solutions
- Evaluate and recommend the right database technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, and NoSQL platforms
- Optimize database performance through indexing, query tuning, partitioning, and execution plan analysis
- Design and implement security controls including access management, encryption, masking, and auditing
- Ensure compliance with standards such as GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, PCI, where applicable
- Define backup, restore, disaster recovery, and data integrity strategies
- Support CI/CD and automated database deployments using DevOps practices
- Collaborate with development and architecture teams to review and approve database designs
- Create ER diagrams, architecture documents, and runbooks
- Mentor developers / DBAs on database best practices
Required Skills
- Strong experience in SQL Server / Azure SQL Database
- Good experience in PostgreSQL and DB2
- Strong knowledge of data modeling, normalization, and database design
- Expertise in SQL performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, and execution plans
- Experience with cloud database architectures, preferably on Azure
- Understanding of high availability, failover, backup, and disaster recovery
- Knowledge of database security, access control, and compliance-driven design
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, Terraform / Bicep / ARM, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Good understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and integration-heavy applications
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cosmos DB / MongoDB / DynamoDB
- Exposure to regulated industries like Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, etc.
- Strong architectural thinking with ability to balance scalability, security, and business needs
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to influence and challenge design decisions constructively
- Mentorship and leadership mindset
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Skills Required
- Strong experience in SQL Server / Azure SQL Database
- Good experience in PostgreSQL and DB2
- Expertise in SQL performance tuning
- Experience with cloud database architectures on Azure
- Knowledge of database security and compliance
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, Terraform
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
