Vertafore is seeking a Cloud Database Architect to own the end-to-end architecture, technical strategy, and evolution of our Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms across AWS and hybrid environments. This role is accountable for defining reference architectures, driving standardization and automation, improving resilience and observability, and enabling scalable, cost-efficient database foundations for Tier-1 workloads.

This is a hybrid design authority as well as operations role. You will partner with Engineering, SRE, DBA and Platform teams to modernize how data platforms are built and run, and you will guide key decisions such as RDS vs RDS Custom vs EC2, HA/DR patterns, replication strategy, and scaling models.

Key Outcomes (What Success Looks Like)

· Published and adopted database reference architectures for Oracle and PostgreSQL on AWS.

· High-confidence HA/DR designs with validated RPO/RTO, predictable failover behavior, and tested runbooks.