Senior Solutions Architect - Databases and Cyber Resilience

Senior Solutions Architect - Databases and Cyber Resilience

The Senior Solutions Architect - Databases and Cyber Resilience serves as an overlay specialist for complex customer engagements involving on-premises, cloud-hosted, and cloud-native database protection across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as traditional databases such as MSSQL and Oracle. This role combines trusted-advisor customer engagement, solution architecture, technical validation, and cross-functional influence to help customers design resilient database protection and recovery strategies that preserve business continuity after outages, human error, or cyber incidents. The ideal candidate brings 5-7 years of relevant experience guiding customers, partners, sales teams, and internal product or engineering stakeholders on modern database protection patterns, recovery design, cyber resilience controls, and testable recovery outcomes for production-scale environments. Success in this role requires both broad platform fluency and a deep understanding of how backup, recovery, security, observability, and architecture decisions interact in database environments.

What you'll do…

• Advise customers, partners, and field teams on resilient architectures for databases, including services commonly used across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, such as Amazon RDS and Aurora, Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB, Google Cloud SQL and BigQuery, and Cloud Spanner.
• Translate business continuity, recovery time, and recovery point requirements into practical protection architectures, recovery workflows, and validation plans that support rapid and provable recovery after disasters, operational mistakes, or cyberattacks.
• Lead deep technical discovery, design, and sizing discussions for complex opportunities, balancing scale, performance, security, operational simplicity, and cost across hybrid and cloud-native database estates
• Shape solution patterns that incorporate layered security controls such as encryption, identity integration, logging, and isolated recovery options to strengthen resilience in modern environments.
• Partner with account teams as a trusted technical advisor during discovery, workshops, architecture reviews, proof-of-value efforts, and executive-level customer conversations focused on data resilience outcomes.
• Build customer confidence by explaining platform capabilities, architectural considerations and trade-offs, competitive differentiation, and recommended protection approaches for mission-critical database workloads at scale.
• Enable sellers, partners, and customer technical teams through presentations, whiteboarding sessions, design reviews, and repeatable field guidance on database protection and cyber recovery use cases.
• Support customer recovery-readiness initiatives by helping define drill scenarios, success criteria, and evidence-based validation approaches that demonstrate recoverability under realistic failure and attack conditions.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on Commvault's support for databases, including broad coverage across cloud database services as well as on-prem and hybrid database platforms.
• Mentor field architects, solution engineers, and partner teams on reference architectures, competitive positioning, risk identification, and technical objection handling for database protection and cyber resilience opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, professional services, and support teams to communicate field requirements, customer pain points, platform gaps, and enhancement opportunities for emerging database services and recovery capabilities.
• Develop reusable technical assets such as design patterns, qualification frameworks, recovery testing guidance, and architecture standards that improve execution consistency across the field organization. Thought Leadership and Innovation
• Stay current on database market direction, including increasing adoption of managed and distributed database services, modern analytics platforms, and cloud-native operational models across hyperscalers
• Track evolving cyber resilience and cloud-native security practices such as Zero Trust, least-privilege access, continuous monitoring, runtime protection, and automation-driven guardrails, and translate them into practical customer guidance.
• Influence go-to-market strategy by identifying high-value use cases, emerging workload trends, and competitive differentiation opportunities related to database recovery, cyber preparedness, and operational resilience.
• Represent the organization in strategic customer forums, internal communities, and industry-facing conversations with a point of view on recoverability, resilience testing, and secure database operations in the cloud era.

Who you are…

• 5-7 years of experience in solution architecture, sales engineering, consulting, platform engineering, or a related technical customer-facing role focused on databases, cloud platforms, data protection, or cyber resilience.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud database services and architectures across one or more major providers, with working familiarity across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud offerings relevant to enterprise customers.
• Demonstrated ability to design backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery approaches for cloud database workloads, including aligning solutions to performance, scale, RTO, and RPO requirements.
• Solid understanding of security architecture concepts relevant to resilient database protection, including encryption, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and incident response integration.
• Knowledge of the databases and services most relevant to enterprise cloud adoption, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, and adjacent modern data platforms.
• Understanding of cyber resilience principles for databases, including recovery from ransomware, accidental deletion, corruption, credential misuse, and region- or platform-level failure scenarios.
• Familiarity with Commvault-supported database technologies and the value of unified protection across cloud, hybrid, and traditional database estates. Awareness of modern cloud security and resilience trends such as policy-based automation, continuous validation, and secure-by-default platform design.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to architects, administrators, developers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders, adapting depth and style to the audience.
• Strong consultative and discovery skills, with the ability to uncover business drivers, identify architectural risk, and map technical recommendations to business continuity and cyber resilience outcomes.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration skills with sales, partner sellers, product management, engineering, support, and services teams in fast-moving enterprise environments.
• Strong presentation, mentoring, and influence skills, with the credibility to operate as a trusted advisor in high-visibility customer and internal engagements.