Project Role : Integration Engineer
Project Role Description : Provide consultative Business and System Integration services to help clients implement effective solutions. Understand and translate customer needs into business and technology solutions. Drive discussions and consult on transformation, the customer journey, functional/application designs and ensure technology and business solutions represent business requirements.
Must have skills : Database Architecture
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As an Integration Engineer, a typical day involves offering expert guidance on business and system integration to support clients in deploying efficient solutions. This role requires understanding client requirements deeply and translating them into practical business and technology strategies. The day includes leading discussions on transformation initiatives, mapping the customer journey, and designing functional and application frameworks that align with business objectives. The Integration Engineer ensures that the technology solutions implemented accurately reflect the business needs and contribute to seamless integration across various systems and processes.

Position
Database & Engineering SME – Level 7
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Database & Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) who can provide technical leadership across modern database platforms, cloud technologies, application engineering, and data modernization initiatives. The candidate will work closely with architecture, engineering, delivery, and client teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
The role requires strong hands-on technical expertise combined with the ability to guide engineering teams, support solution design, troubleshoot complex technical challenges, and contribute to modernization and transformation programs.
Key Responsibilities
Act as a technical SME across databases, cloud platforms, application engineering, and data modernization.
Design and review highly scalable, secure, and resilient database architectures.
Provide expertise across SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB and other enterprise database technologies.
Define database design, data modeling, indexing, performance optimization, replication, partitioning, and high-availability strategies.
Support database modernization and migration initiatives from legacy and relational platforms to modern cloud-native databases.
Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Provide technical guidance on application modernization, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native engineering.
Analyze complex production issues and provide root-cause analysis and remediation recommendations.
Conduct architecture and code reviews and establish engineering best practices.
Mentor developers, database engineers, and technical resources.
Collaborate with enterprise architects, client stakeholders, and delivery leads to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Contribute to PoCs, technical assessments, solution proposals, estimations, and technical presentations.
Support automation using DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability technologies.
Identify opportunities to leverage GenAI, AI/ML, and automation to improve application and data engineering.
Ensure solutions comply with security, governance, performance, and operational requirements.
Required Technical Skills
Database
Strong expertise in one or more databases:
o MongoDB
o Oracle
o PostgreSQL
o MySQL
o SQL Server
o Cassandra
o Cosmos DB
o Other NoSQL platforms
Strong understanding of:
o Data modeling
o Query optimization
o Indexing
o Replication
o Sharding/partitioning
o High availability
o Disaster recovery
o Database security
o Backup and recovery
o Database migration
Cloud & Engineering
AWS/Azure/GCP
Microservices architecture
REST APIs
Event-driven architecture
Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms
Docker and Kubernetes
CI/CD
Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
Git and modern development practices
Programming
Strong experience in one or more:
Java
Python
Node.js
.NET
Go
Modernization & Architecture
Application modernization
Cloud migration
Legacy modernization
Database migration
Distributed systems
API modernization
Data integration
Performance engineering
Preferred Skills
MongoDB certifications or equivalent database certifications.
Experience with MongoDB Atlas and cloud-native databases.
Experience with Vector Search, RAG, GenAI, or Agentic AI.
Experience leading technical PoCs and workshops.
Strong client-facing and consulting skills.
Experience
10–15+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in database engineering, application engineering, cloud, architecture, or modernization.
Behavioral Competencies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to influence technical decisions.
Strong mentoring and collaboration capabilities.
Ability to work independently in complex delivery environments.
Strong consulting and presentation skills.
Success Criteria
Provides strong technical direction to engineering teams.
Successfully resolves complex database and application engineering challenges.
Enables modernization and cloud adoption.
Improves application/database performance and reliability.
Builds technical capability through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 12 years of experience in Database Architecture.
- This position is based at our Hyderabad office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

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