Database Architect

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Data Architect is responsible to define and lead the Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Governance at lucid, for both Vehicle and Operational data, ingesting, processing, and storing Trillions of rows of data per day. This hands-on role helps solve real big data problems, which most of the standard tools on the market are not capable of handling. You will be designing solutions, writing codes and automation, defining standards, and establish best practices across the company. 

The Job:

• You deal with demanding customers and pressing deadlines – but that just keeps things interesting.
• Requirements gathering, feasibility analysis, logical and physical DB modeling/ design, ERD etc.
• Choose the right DB (RDBMS/NoSQL/Graph/JSON/Columnar/Time-series etc.) for the right data and polyglot architecture
• Work with our developers and business analysts to create and modify our database structure

MySQL:

• Creating the databases, and creating the tables, indexes, views, constraints, stored procedures etc.
• Architecting, designing the DB schema, identifying proper indexing, DB/SQL tuning etc.
• Define the modern distributed database architecture for existing and new applications

MongoDB

• As a database architect, you should be able to provide solution for application team requirements and how to design the best MongoDB schema for a given application.
• Identifying proper indexes, and tuning etc.

Neo4J

• As a database architect, you will design and build graph database load processes to efficiently populate the knowledge graphs using datasets to solve various business use cases.
• Experience with encryption solutions for Neo4J experience with backup & recovery methodologies used for Neo4J

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in Database Architecture and Design experience.
• 7+ years of experience in solution design patterns
• 7+ years of experience with Installing, configuring, maintaining of SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch or Neo4J
• Experience with at least two coding and scripting languages e.g., Python, Java, Scala, Shell Scripting

Preferred Qualificatr

• You have experience defining and evaluating application solution architectures and roadmaps
• You are a "Big Picture" Thinker – you can maintain perspective and establish context.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the differences between typical relational and NoSQL database development and access methodologies
• Experience with LDAP Based Authentication & Authorization
• Architecting event-driven systems like Kafka, Kinesis, Data streams/pipelines, ETL.
• Assist with schema design, code review, query tuning.
• Kubernetes experience.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Master’s degree preferred

Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

· California (Bay Area) - $104,000 - $143,000

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)

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