Senior Database Technical Architect

ANDERSEN CORPORATION

SUMMARY:

At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live. Our portfolio of brands — Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ — is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector.

Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.

The Senior Technical Architect, Database Platforms proactively leads and supports activities that guide the development, modernization, and management of Andersen's enterprise database platforms and services. This hands-on technology leadership role is responsible for defining target-state database architectures, establishing standards and best practices, and enabling secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective data platform solutions that support business and technology objectives. This individual partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, application, cybersecurity, and product teams to develop database strategies, roadmaps, and technical solutions that accelerate business outcomes while ensuring operational excellence.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Oak Park Heights, MN office location.

• Develop and maintain enterprise database architecture standards, patterns, and reference designs.
• Define target-state strategies for database platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, cloud database services, and emerging technologies.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend investments that improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Create architectural roadmaps that align database capabilities with business priorities and long-term technology strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Collaborate with product teams, application owners, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to design and implement database solutions that support critical business services.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, availability, recoverability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical guidance throughout project life cycles, including planning, design, implementation, and operational transition.

• Lead database modernization initiatives and migration strategies involving hybrid and cloud-based solutions.
• Develop approaches for platform automation, infrastructure as code, self-service capabilities, and operational efficiency.
• Champion continuous improvement and simplification efforts across database services.

• Define standards for database performance management, monitoring, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and high availability.
• Ensure architecture decisions support operational supportability, resiliency, and service reliability objectives.
• Review platform health metrics and identify opportunities for optimization and risk reduction.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for database technologies and related platform services.
• Mentor engineers and administrators through coaching, architecture reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Promote engineering best practices, technical consistency, and continuous learning.

• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams…