Database Architect (Cloud) for SRA
Black Canyon Consulting, NIH-Bethesda +1
About the job
Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Database Architect with expertise in Cloud Technologies to support National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.
The Database Architecture will design, optimize, and maintain large-scale, distributed database systems powering NCBI’s premier biomedical data resources. This role focuses on scalable database architectures, partitioning strategies, and cloud-native solutions to support massive, complex datasets driving global biomedical and public health research.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design and optimize cloud-based database architectures to support petabyte-scale biomedical datasets.
- Implement and manage database partitioning, sharding, and replication strategies to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Tune queries, schemas, and indexing strategies for high-throughput workloads.