Database Architect Jobs in Texas
Database Architect jobs in Texas are among the most active in the country, concentrated in enterprise technology, financial services, energy, and healthcare across a market that hires from early-career data professionals through principal and staff-level architects. The largest hiring metros are Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin, where employers like Dell Technologies, JPMorgan Chase, and ExxonMobil have deep, lasting footprints and ongoing demand for database talent. Cloud database migration, data warehouse design, and multi-cloud architecture are the most consistently requested specialties in Texas listings. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity:
Are you an experienced, entrepreneurial Solutions Architect with deep expertise in database automation, DBaaS, and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure? Do you excel at simplifying, accelerating, and standardizing database administration across enterprise environments? Are you adept at transforming time-consuming provisioning, cloning, patching, and recovery workflows for databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB and MySQL into single-click operations?
If so, join our dynamic Americas Solution Specialists team at Nutanix. In this high-impact role, you will shape the future of enterprise data architectures—connecting modern database automation directly with enterprise AI data pipelines, hybrid cloud strategies, and infrastructure modernization across our largest Americas accounts.
About the Team:
The successful candidate will join the Americas Solution Specialists & Systems Engineering Organization at Nutanix—a forward-thinking group dedicated to solving complex enterprise infrastructure, database, and AI workload challenges. We are part of a mature, financially viable cloud software company that prides itself on bringing radical simplicity to complex technology.
In this role, you will report to the Manager, Systems Engineering. The position is fully remote within the United States, offering high flexibility, but requires the ability to travel up to 50% (with approximately 30% dedicated to customer discovery, architectural workshops, executive briefings, and partner collaboration across the Americas).
Your Role:
As an NDB Solutions Architect for the Americas, you will act as a primary technical deal architect and domain expert, driving pre-sales architecture, technical discovery, proof-of-concept (POC) validations, and database modernization strategies.
- Domain Leadership & Enablement: Maintain authoritative, deep-dive expertise in Nutanix Database Service (NDB), Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), and the broader database ecosystem. Deliver cross-functional knowledge transfer to regional SEs, sales teams, and channel partners.
- Architectural Blueprinting: Design and present complex, enterprise-grade database architectures tailored to customer requirements—specifically linking NDB to structured AI data prep pipelines, PostgreSQL on NC2, and database-as-a-service (DBaaS) models.
- Technical Validation & Demonstrations: Lead advanced technical product presentations, live demonstrations, hands-on Proof of Concepts (POCs), and technical feasibility assessments for enterprise prospects.
- Broadcom & Competitive Displacements: Intercept legacy manual database, scripting and complex hypervisor dependencies in VMware migration deals; demonstrate how NDB accelerates migrations to AHV while reducing database TCO and licensing overhead.
- Strategic Discovery & Qualification: Drive deep technical discovery and qualify opportunities for emerging technologies and database modernization across enterprise, federal, and commercial accounts in the Americas.
- Cross-Domain Solution Pairing: Collaborate closely with specialists across Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and External Storage to deliver full-stack solution architectures.
- Opportunity Expansion & Field Feedback: Identify portfolio expansion opportunities within installed accounts, synthesize customer feedback, and partner directly with Nutanix Product Management and Engineering to influence the NDB product roadmap.
Qualifications & Requirements
Technical & Architectural Experience
- Database Expertise: Deep technical proficiency with major enterprise database engines—specifically PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB and MySQL. Strong understanding of database administration (DBA) workflows, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and performance tuning.
- Database Automation & DBaaS: Hands-on experience with database automation, copy data management (CDM), database backup/recovery, automated patching, lifecycle management, and API-driven database provisioning.
- Infrastructure & Hybrid Cloud: Solid grounding in virtualization (AHV, ESXi), enterprise storage architectures, containerized databases (Kubernetes/NKP), and public cloud IaaS platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Scripting & Integration: Familiarity with REST APIs, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform for integrating database workflows into broader CI/CD or ITOM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow).
Field & Pre-Sales Capability
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing pre-sales technical role (Solutions Architect, Systems Engineer, or Database Specialist Architect) within an enterprise software, cloud, or infrastructure organization.
- Consultative Selling: Proven track record of leading architectural design workshops, executing successful POCs, answering RFIs/RFPs, and handling complex technical objections from DBAs, Infrastructure Architects, and CXOs.
- Business Acumen: Ability to articulate database TCO, licensing savings (e.g., core optimization for Oracle/SQL Server), operational efficiency gains, and risk reduction to senior IT leadership.
Soft Skills & Operational Requirements
- Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills; able to translate intricate database engineering concepts into clear business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience / industry certifications (e.g., Nutanix NCP/NCA, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, Oracle OCP, or Microsoft SQL/PostgreSQL certifications).
- Travel Flexibility: Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% across the Americas region as required for customer engagements, team offsites, and industry events.
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity:
Are you an experienced, entrepreneurial Solutions Architect with deep expertise in database automation, DBaaS, and hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure? Do you excel at simplifying, accelerating, and standardizing database administration across enterprise environments? Are you adept at transforming time-consuming provisioning, cloning, patching, and recovery workflows for databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB and MySQL into single-click operations?
If so, join our dynamic Americas Solution Specialists team at Nutanix. In this high-impact role, you will shape the future of enterprise data architectures—connecting modern database automation directly with enterprise AI data pipelines, hybrid cloud strategies, and infrastructure modernization across our largest Americas accounts.
About the Team:
The successful candidate will join the Americas Solution Specialists & Systems Engineering Organization at Nutanix—a forward-thinking group dedicated to solving complex enterprise infrastructure, database, and AI workload challenges. We are part of a mature, financially viable cloud software company that prides itself on bringing radical simplicity to complex technology.
In this role, you will report to the Manager, Systems Engineering. The position is fully remote within the United States, offering high flexibility, but requires the ability to travel up to 50% (with approximately 30% dedicated to customer discovery, architectural workshops, executive briefings, and partner collaboration across the Americas).
Your Role:
As an NDB Solutions Architect for the Americas, you will act as a primary technical deal architect and domain expert, driving pre-sales architecture, technical discovery, proof-of-concept (POC) validations, and database modernization strategies.
- Domain Leadership & Enablement: Maintain authoritative, deep-dive expertise in Nutanix Database Service (NDB), Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), and the broader database ecosystem. Deliver cross-functional knowledge transfer to regional SEs, sales teams, and channel partners.
- Architectural Blueprinting: Design and present complex, enterprise-grade database architectures tailored to customer requirements—specifically linking NDB to structured AI data prep pipelines, PostgreSQL on NC2, and database-as-a-service (DBaaS) models.
- Technical Validation & Demonstrations: Lead advanced technical product presentations, live demonstrations, hands-on Proof of Concepts (POCs), and technical feasibility assessments for enterprise prospects.
- Broadcom & Competitive Displacements: Intercept legacy manual database, scripting and complex hypervisor dependencies in VMware migration deals; demonstrate how NDB accelerates migrations to AHV while reducing database TCO and licensing overhead.
- Strategic Discovery & Qualification: Drive deep technical discovery and qualify opportunities for emerging technologies and database modernization across enterprise, federal, and commercial accounts in the Americas.
- Cross-Domain Solution Pairing: Collaborate closely with specialists across Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), and External Storage to deliver full-stack solution architectures.
- Opportunity Expansion & Field Feedback: Identify portfolio expansion opportunities within installed accounts, synthesize customer feedback, and partner directly with Nutanix Product Management and Engineering to influence the NDB product roadmap.
Qualifications & Requirements
Technical & Architectural Experience
- Database Expertise: Deep technical proficiency with major enterprise database engines—specifically PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB and MySQL. Strong understanding of database administration (DBA) workflows, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and performance tuning.
- Database Automation & DBaaS: Hands-on experience with database automation, copy data management (CDM), database backup/recovery, automated patching, lifecycle management, and API-driven database provisioning.
- Infrastructure & Hybrid Cloud: Solid grounding in virtualization (AHV, ESXi), enterprise storage architectures, containerized databases (Kubernetes/NKP), and public cloud IaaS platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Scripting & Integration: Familiarity with REST APIs, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform for integrating database workflows into broader CI/CD or ITOM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow).
Field & Pre-Sales Capability
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing pre-sales technical role (Solutions Architect, Systems Engineer, or Database Specialist Architect) within an enterprise software, cloud, or infrastructure organization.
- Consultative Selling: Proven track record of leading architectural design workshops, executing successful POCs, answering RFIs/RFPs, and handling complex technical objections from DBAs, Infrastructure Architects, and CXOs.
- Business Acumen: Ability to articulate database TCO, licensing savings (e.g., core optimization for Oracle/SQL Server), operational efficiency gains, and risk reduction to senior IT leadership.
Soft Skills & Operational Requirements
- Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills; able to translate intricate database engineering concepts into clear business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience / industry certifications (e.g., Nutanix NCP/NCA, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, Oracle OCP, or Microsoft SQL/PostgreSQL certifications).
- Travel Flexibility: Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% across the Americas region as required for customer engagements, team offsites, and industry events.
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What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in database architect jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
- Proficiency with relational database platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience designing and optimizing cloud databases on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Demonstrated ability to model enterprise data schemas and manage large-scale data warehouses
- Familiarity with ETL pipelines, data integration tools, and performance tuning methodologies
- Strong collaboration skills for working with application developers, data engineers, and business analysts
Database Architect Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a database architect in Texas?
Database architecture has no state-issued license in Texas, so the path runs through education and vendor credentials. Most Texas employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems, followed by several years of hands-on database administration or engineering work. Certifications from Microsoft, Oracle, or AWS carry significant weight in Texas hiring, and a portfolio showing data modeling or cloud migration projects on Texas-scale enterprise systems strengthens a candidacy considerably.
How much do database architects make in Texas?
Database architects in Texas earn a median of about $151,370 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $92,890 for the lowest 10% to over $200,390 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire database architects in Texas?
Employers hiring database architects in Texas right now include Nutanix, Amazon, and DatamanUSA, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Texas's density of energy headquarters in Houston, financial institutions in Dallas, and technology firms in Austin means demand stays consistent across multiple high-data industries rather than concentrating in a single sector.
Which Texas cities have the most database architect jobs?
Dallas, Houston, and Texas account for the largest share of database architect openings in Texas. Dallas-Fort Worth leads because of its concentration of financial services firms, major corporate headquarters, and regional technology campuses, while Houston's energy and medical center employers drive sustained demand, and Austin's growing technology sector adds a strong third market for database talent.
Are there remote database architect jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most fields. Database architecture is primarily a desk-based, analytical discipline that translates well to distributed work. About 75% of database architect openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how broadly Texas employers have adopted flexible arrangements for technical roles. Design work, data modeling, and cloud infrastructure tasks are the functions most commonly offered with full remote flexibility.
How can I get hired as a database architect in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a database administrator or junior data engineer role, which large Texas employers in financial services and healthcare use as a pipeline into architecture work. Companies like Dell Technologies and major Dallas-area banks run associate technology programs that accept candidates with strong academic backgrounds and vendor certifications even without extensive professional experience. Building a project portfolio around data modeling exercises or open-source database work, and earning an entry-level Oracle or AWS certification, gives Texas hiring managers a concrete reason to interview a newer candidate.
Where can I find and apply to database architect jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to database architect jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings updated regularly. Find roles that match your experience and target location, then apply directly to each employer through the listing.
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