Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is seeking a Senior level Database Engineer to provide technical leadership for their global data platforms. The role involves designing and operating large-scale data systems, leading migrations, and ensuring system scalability and efficiency across AWS and Azure environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level technical leadership for global data platforms
• Design, evolve, and operate large-scale data systems that power downstream services and customer-facing applications
• Define long-term data platform strategy and lead complex migrations
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient across AWS and Azure environments
• Partner closely with technical and business leaders to turn complex requirements into durable, high-performing systems

Skills

• Proven cloud migration experience, specifically migrations to AWS
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS databases, including DynamoDB and DocumentDB
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Hands-on data pipeline engineering experience
• Experience working with high-volume, complex datasets
• Experience designing systems that supply data to downstream services and presentation layers
• Familiarity with in-memory and AI-related data stores, including Redis (especially for AI or vector-based use cases)
• Ability and willingness to discuss both architecture and real-world implementation details
• 7–10+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or platform engineering
• Ownership of production-grade data systems operating at terabyte scale or beyond
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, replication, and partitioning
• Hands-on experience with AWS-native data services and supporting infrastructure
• Working knowledge of Azure data services
• Experience leading major technical initiatives across teams through influence rather than authority
• Strong incident response experience and comfort operating in high-severity production environments
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and executive stakeholders
• Experience with Solr (used heavily by the team)
• AWS in-memory services such as ElastiCache and MemoryDB
• Exposure to vector databases or AI-focused data stores
• Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL platforms
• Shell scripting experience is strongly preferred
• U.S. Citizenship preferred due to FedRAMP / GovCloud requirements

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