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Database Architect jobs are open across financial services, healthcare, retail, and enterprise technology, from mid-level to principal and staff engineer, with specializations in cloud data platforms, data warehousing, and relational database design. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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Minnesota - Architect
Hollstadt Overview
Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.
Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.
By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Hollstadt Consulting and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel at any time.
Role: Azure Database Architect
Contract: 9 months
Location: Hybrid - St Paul
Pay Rate: $80-$85/hour W2
As an Azure Database Architect, this position will participate in the analysis and design, and support development, implementation, and potentially ongoing support of Azure Databases and Data Lakes, with a primary focus on the Data Lakehouse and its integrated data reserves. The responsibilities will include designing, administering, maintaining, and securing data to ensure efficient and reliable data storage solutions. The position will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize data workflows, support data-driven decision-making, and implement best practices for data security and integrity in Azure environments. This position also will provide mentorship to other architects and database engineers.
Sample Tasks
- Support design and implementation to improve, modernize, and transform data-driven service delivery.
- Ensure data assets are structured, accessible, secure, and align with goals.
- Recommend data platforms and tools to support enterprise data architecture.
- Develop data models.
- Ensure data access patterns are optimized.
- Maintain necessary documentation.
- Coordinate with necessary teams to meet security standards.
- Support design and development of disaster recovery solutions.
- Provide knowledge transfer.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong experience with designing, developing, and implementing data lakes and relational and non-relational databases in Azure.
- Strong experience with Databricks.
- Strong experience with Oracle databases.
- Experience developing and implementing data transformation solutions and cloud infrastructure integrations.
- Experience coding and testing programs and scripts to load data using Azure data load utilities.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud computing concepts.
- Experience with tools such as Azure Monitor, Azure Data Factory, SQL Analytics, Query Performance Insight, Azure Resource Manager, Pearl, and Azure CLI/PowerShell for infrastructure management.
- Experience in mentoring others in the needed technologies.
- Experience developing and implementing backup and recovery strategies using tools such as Azure Backup or Geo-replication.
- Experience with role-based access control, encryption, and network security.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Desired 10 years’ experience in data architecture or data management.
- Knowledge of data concepts, data modeling, schema design, and indexing strategies.
- Knowledge of Azure SQL instances, managed instances, and elastic pools.
- Knowledge of Data Warehouse Administration and Teradata Data Warehouse.
Benefits + Perks
Comprehensive Benefit Plan
Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!
Remarketing Process
Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.
Professional Development
Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
401k + Matching
One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.
Bonus Opportunities
We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!
Ongoing Support & Networking
We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.
Minnesota - Architect
Hollstadt Overview
Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.
Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.
By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Hollstadt Consulting and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel at any time.
Role: Azure Database Architect
Contract: 9 months
Location: Hybrid - St Paul
Pay Rate: $80-$85/hour W2
As an Azure Database Architect, this position will participate in the analysis and design, and support development, implementation, and potentially ongoing support of Azure Databases and Data Lakes, with a primary focus on the Data Lakehouse and its integrated data reserves. The responsibilities will include designing, administering, maintaining, and securing data to ensure efficient and reliable data storage solutions. The position will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize data workflows, support data-driven decision-making, and implement best practices for data security and integrity in Azure environments. This position also will provide mentorship to other architects and database engineers.
Sample Tasks
- Support design and implementation to improve, modernize, and transform data-driven service delivery.
- Ensure data assets are structured, accessible, secure, and align with goals.
- Recommend data platforms and tools to support enterprise data architecture.
- Develop data models.
- Ensure data access patterns are optimized.
- Maintain necessary documentation.
- Coordinate with necessary teams to meet security standards.
- Support design and development of disaster recovery solutions.
- Provide knowledge transfer.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong experience with designing, developing, and implementing data lakes and relational and non-relational databases in Azure.
- Strong experience with Databricks.
- Strong experience with Oracle databases.
- Experience developing and implementing data transformation solutions and cloud infrastructure integrations.
- Experience coding and testing programs and scripts to load data using Azure data load utilities.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud computing concepts.
- Experience with tools such as Azure Monitor, Azure Data Factory, SQL Analytics, Query Performance Insight, Azure Resource Manager, Pearl, and Azure CLI/PowerShell for infrastructure management.
- Experience in mentoring others in the needed technologies.
- Experience developing and implementing backup and recovery strategies using tools such as Azure Backup or Geo-replication.
- Experience with role-based access control, encryption, and network security.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Desired 10 years’ experience in data architecture or data management.
- Knowledge of data concepts, data modeling, schema design, and indexing strategies.
- Knowledge of Azure SQL instances, managed instances, and elastic pools.
- Knowledge of Data Warehouse Administration and Teradata Data Warehouse.
Benefits + Perks
Comprehensive Benefit Plan
Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!
Remarketing Process
Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.
Professional Development
Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
401k + Matching
One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.
Bonus Opportunities
We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!
Ongoing Support & Networking
We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Science & Research
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- Technology & Software
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- Aerospace & Defense
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in database architect jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one major RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL
- Experience designing and implementing cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Familiarity with data modeling tools and methodologies including ERD and dimensional modeling
- Knowledge of database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization
- Relevant certifications such as Oracle Database Administrator or Microsoft Certified Database Administrator preferred
Tips for Your Database Architect Job Search
Tailor your resume to the stack
Hiring managers scan for specific platforms before reading anything else. List your database technologies in a dedicated skills section and mirror the exact names from the job posting, whether that's Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, or Redshift.
Document architecture decisions you owned
Generic resume bullets about maintaining databases won't differentiate you. Describe the schema designs, migration strategies, or replication topologies you led, and include the scale of data involved so reviewers can assess scope quickly.
Filter openings by deployment model
Database architect roles split between on-premises, cloud-native, and hybrid environments. Narrow your search to postings that match your strongest environment so you're not competing for roles where your experience is only partial.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists database architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a design whiteboard answer
Most database architect interviews include a live design exercise. Practice walking through normalization decisions, indexing strategies, and trade-offs between consistency and performance out loud, so your reasoning is clear without prompting from the interviewer.
Negotiate beyond base compensation
Database architect offers often include certification reimbursement, cloud credits, or on-call premiums that vary widely by employer. Ask about these specifics during negotiation rather than after signing, since they're rarely listed in the initial offer letter.
Database Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most database architects?
The companies hiring the most database architects right now include Amazon Web Services, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Infosys, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, Texas, and Missouri, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in financial services, healthcare systems, and large enterprise technology firms.
How many database architect jobs are remote?
About 40% of database architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more location-flexible senior technical roles. Cloud-focused positions, particularly those involving Snowflake, Redshift, or Azure Synapse, tend to carry the highest share of remote arrangements compared to roles requiring on-premises infrastructure management.
How do you become a database architect?
Start by building a strong foundation as a database administrator or developer so you understand performance tuning, backup strategies, and schema design from the ground up. Progress into roles where you're designing data models and advising on architecture decisions rather than only maintaining existing systems. Earning a cloud platform certification and contributing to a migration or replatforming project is one of the most direct paths to an architect title.
Can you get hired as a database architect without direct architecture experience?
Yes, but you'll need to reframe your existing work to show architectural thinking. Candidates who have led schema redesigns, evaluated database platforms, or documented data flows for their team have a realistic path to entry-level architect roles. Targeting companies undergoing cloud migrations often opens doors, since those projects require architects and are frequently willing to hire candidates who've been close to the work without holding the title.
What does the database architect interview process look like?
Most database architect interviews run three to four rounds. An initial recruiter screen is followed by a technical phone interview focused on SQL, indexing, and data modeling concepts. The next stage typically includes a take-home design exercise or a live whiteboard session where you're asked to design a schema or outline a migration strategy. Final rounds usually involve a panel discussion with engineering and data leadership where you walk through past architecture decisions and trade-offs.
Where can I find and apply to database architect jobs?
You can find and apply to database architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience with specific platforms, industries, or deployment environments, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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