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Technical Director of Database Technology

Aztronix

Job Description

Company Description

Company provides dramatic ROI and bottom line improvement to major Data Center and Cloud operations. High Growth exciting dynamic company.  The Company's Datacenter Solutions Group (DSG) is a solutions engineering and product management organization with employees spanning eight Company locations globally.  This is a high visibility position that reports to the Co-Founder CTO with an according comp plan.  Location is 45 Miles north of Downtown Boston.

Job Description

Seeking Database Technologies Guru for Technical Director of Database Technology.

As the Technical Director for Database Technology you provide strong technical leadership to drive innovation in The Company's products and solutions that target database-orientedworkloads.

Your deep understanding of technology, customer and IT trends impacting database architecture and deployments is essential to inform The Company's product strategy as some of the most profound changes in database architectures materialize through the end of the decade. Your deep understanding of customer requirements and the I/O profiles that databases generate grounds your understanding of the long term trends with the pragmatic business realities of today's changing market. 

You will leverage your deep understanding of the principles of database design and implementation to become the go-to expert within Company engineering for how to optimize our products to deliver best of bread storage and data management capabilities that are straightforward for our customers to consume as part of their database deployments. 

Essential Functions:

  • Be the lead product architect representing Company Engineering to all of our major Database Partners in joint development projects and strategic product integration activities.
  • Provide future technical vision to the Datacenter Solutions Group for database-oriented workloads. 
  • Translate customer and partner requirements into architecture requirements for The Company products to deliver the best of class solutions for the current and emerging database technologies
  • - Work cross The Company to influence product teams to deliver solutions for the database workloads
  • Work with customers to understand requirements for database, suggest appropriate The Company solutions based on their needs
  • Provide product architecture insight and guidance to the Database Technical Marketing and Reference Architecture team. 

Qualifications

  • Recognized expert in software design and development, with a specific understanding of the implementation of both disk-based and in memory database technologies.
  • Must be familiar with multiple traditional and emerging database technologies for structured, and semi-structured data, e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, SAP, DB2, MongoDB, Cassandra, hBase.
  • Must be comfortable engaging in the solution engineering activities required to take a set of products and combine them together with a "Reference Architecture" blueprint to ensure high quality repeatable, scalable customer outcomes.
  • Prior storage architecture experience is a plus, but not required. 

Responsibility: 

  • The tasks this individual is responsible for are critical to the organization's future, have wide implications, and there may be multiple outcomes. 
  • This individual will apply many years of expertise or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and extremely complex given time, budget and resource constraints. 
  • Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions, process changes, business initiatives, etc. 

Interaction: 

  • This individual must work effectively with staff to executive levels employees within the function, across functions and outside of the organization.
  • This individual is a recognized expert and exercises wide latitude in determining own objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
  • Is seen as a leader, or "guru" by others in the function and organization

Education & Experience:

  • A minimum of 15+ years of experience is required. 
  • A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.
  • Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, extremely complex technical projects. - This individual must work effectively with staff to executive levels employees within the function, across functions and outside of the organization.
  • This individual is a recognized expert and exercises wide latitude in determining own objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
  • Is seen as a leader, or "guru" by others in the function and organization.

Additional Information

  • Generous Compensation commensurate with skills, abilities and experience. This is a high visibility position reporting to the Co-Founder CTO
  • Location: Metro Boston North
  • Industry: Information Technology - Databases Guru
  • Job Category: Information Technology - Databases Guru
  • Hours Per Week: 40 Salaried Base Salary, Bonus and Equity DOE
  • Visa Candidate Considered: No
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Job Location
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