Couchbase Architect

About the Company:

Rakuten India is the Development Centre and key technology hub of the Rakuten Group, Inc. We enable our businesses with our depth of knowledge in multiple streams of technology such as Mobile and Web Development, Web Analytics, Platform Development, Backend Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and much more. Our unique 24/7 support center ensures reliability and sustenance of the Rakuten Ecosystem. With dedicated centres of excellence for Mobile Application Development, Data Analytics, Engineering, DevOps and Information Security, we ensure the success of multiple units of Rakuten Group, Inc. With 1700+ employees and growing, Rakuten India is housed in Crimson House Bangalore in the heart of the city.

The Role

At Rakuten – We are looking for an Data Architect who can Work alongside multiple Production Support, Development, System Admin, Project Managers and Engineering teams

Provide database design, configuration, end to end support for RDBMs/NoSQL databases, upgrades, query performance & tuning analysis and best practice implementation for distributed and clustered forms

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Architect will define and document the data model, data policies, rules, and standards to govern which data is collected, how it is stored, accessed, enriched, integrated, and consumed within the BSS solution.
• Design and implement a scalable, high performance data models and data schema to support data integration, storage and retrieval. Output and maintain ERD covering all BSS components.
• Review existing data documentation for gaps. Define Data Security, Data Retention, Back-up & restoration policies aligning to client guidelines
• Design, build and maintain the database platform to provide stable and secure services.
• Proposing and designing plans for database systems based on various factors such as capacity planning/lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Should be able to install, deploy, parameters configuration of Databases on any of the platforms Linux/windows/k8s
• Conduct performance turning, capacity planning and optimisation of database systems to ensure optimal data processing and retrieval

Technical skill you should have:

• Hands on experience is designing customer data model with account hierarchy for E-Commerce, Care, CRM or Billing solution
• Very good knowledge in database technology for bothNoSQL DB and SQL DB. Working experience with in-memory DB such as Couchbase would be an advantage.
• Good knowledge in designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions using Apache Kafka
• Establish scalable implementation of data management framework, platform and tools stack
• Good knowledge to develop, implement and managing BAU operational process for data quality functionality and capability such as Data Quality Statistics, Data Quality Scorecards, Data Quality Analysis and Workflows Design
• Experience utilising Visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI or any similar tool
• Experience in replication tools like Couchbase XDCR, Mirroring, Log Shipping, MSSQL
• Experience in Clustering, always on, PG Physical and Logical replication
• Scripting: PowerShell, Python
• Proficient in Document-oriented DB ex. Couchbase DB/MongoDB is a must.
• Proficient in any of the following database systems would be an advantage:
• RDBMS ex. MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
• NOSQL DB ex. Elasticsearch

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of DevOps practices – Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Performance measurement and monitoring tools like – JMeter, Grafana
• Highly experienced in traditional waterfall methodology and or Agile/
• SCRUM Delivery
• Unix shell scripting
• Experience of deployment on Linux, Mac OS operating systems
• Used version source control systems such as Git or SVN
• Experience of presenting solutions to clients
• Internal & External Stakeholder management

“Rakuten is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team and inclusive workforce. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and Rakuten’s achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs”