Senior Database Engineering Specialist, Cloud Migration and Platform Resiliency

Core Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support cloud-based database platforms that enable secure, scalable, and resilient business solutions.

• Lead and contribute to database modernization and cloud migration initiatives, helping transition critical workloads from on-premises environments to cloud-native platforms.

• Partner with application teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to define database architecture, platform standards, and long-term technology strategies.

• Drive improvements in platform resiliency, performance, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence across enterprise database environments.

• Provide technical leadership and consultation on cloud-based relational and non-relational database technologies, identifying opportunities to optimize scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

• Support complex production environments through advanced troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis while helping ensure platform stability and service reliability.

• Establish and promote engineering best practices, automation opportunities, governance standards, and operational processes aligned with Vanguard's cloud strategy.

• Mentor engineers and operations teams by sharing technical expertise and enabling successful adoption of modern database platforms and services.

• Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to strategic decisions regarding platform direction, architecture, and modernization roadmaps.

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering, database administration, data modeling, application development, business systems analysis, or related enterprise data platform roles.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Strong understanding of database architecture, logical and physical data modeling, performance tuning, and platform optimization.

• Experience supporting cloud migration, data modernization, and database transformation initiatives.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database , data integration, migration, and conversion issues.

• Knowledge of database security, governance, compliance, and data integrity best practices.

• Strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and operational execution skills.

• PostgreSQL

• MySQL

• Microsoft SQL Server

• Oracle

• Aurora

• DynamoDB

• Neptune