Database Solutions Architect

About the company

• As one of the core team members, work for long-term success in the whole global expansion of OceanBase. Join the entire journey from brainstorming to execution and then achieve results together with the team.

Your tasks

• Be a subject matter expert on databases, particularly on relational databases. Able to discuss with customers on database modeling, migration, performance testing, and day-to-day operations.

• Be a technical expert on all aspects of OceanBase, including compatibility assessment, deployment, administration, development, and migration.

• Facilitate introduction, discussion, and demonstration of OceanBase's technology, vision, and value proposition via individual or group sessions with customers.

• Engage and discover prospects' pain points and business or technical challenges, identifying how OceanBase can add value.

• Run proof of concept projects with customers to validate OceanBase's capabilities. Support post-sale OceanBase implementation with the OceanBase delivery team.

• Maintain a deep understanding of competitive as well as complementary technologies and how to position OceanBase DB in relation to them.

• Provide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges.

• Collaborate with product management, engineering, and marketing to continuously improve the OceanBase product and its position in the market.

Requirements

• Have wide-ranging experience with open source and commercial databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

• Be familiar with major cloud service providers for deploying workloads, including AWS, Alicloud, GCP, and Azure.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, MIS, or a comparable field is preferred.

• Passion and energy to strive in a dynamic, disruptive, fast-paced, and energetic environment.

• Strong communication skills and adaptability. Able to communicate with customers independently, understand customer requirements, and propose technical solutions.

• More than five years' 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 a company with a mature cloud database offering.

• Database administrator or architect prior experience preferred.

• Able to write, analyze, and optimize SQL, particularly MySQL and/or Oracle databases.

• Familiarity with mainstream database products, including Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Google Spanner, with proficiency in at least one of them. Experience in one or more public cloud environments.

• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams including direct and channel marketing, solution architect teams, product management, and account management teams.

• Candidates should have native English proficiency. Basic Mandarin proficiency (speaking and reading) is preferred but not mandatory.

• Bonus: Application development experience in major languages (e.g., Java, Python, NodeJS, .NET).

• Bonus: Able to speak and read Chinese.

Other

• Willingness and ability to travel for work; role covers ASEAN and beyond.