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Principal Database Architect

rxsense
rxsense Salary
Princeton, NJ Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/13/2025

RxSense is a leading healthcare technology company delivering innovative solutions for pharmacy benefits and prescription savings. Our enterprise platform brings transparency, flexibility, and efficiency to pharmacy benefit management, helping clients streamline operations and enabling consumers to save on prescriptions. By integrating intelligence across the pharmacy ecosystem, RxSense makes cost-effective healthcare more accessible. Whether for PBMs, pharmacies, or individuals, our solutions help modernize operations, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. 

RxSense also owns and operates SingleCare, a free prescription savings service that offers consumers access to consistently low prices on prescription drugs. Through its partnerships with the country’s largest pharmacies and grocers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons, SingleCare improves access and adherence to affordable medications and has helped millions of Americans save over $11 billion on their medications. 

RxSense is a great place to work! Our company has earned several prestigious awards, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Top Startup Employers, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, and Inc’s Best in Business and Best Workplaces.

We are seeking a Principal Database Architect (MongoDB) to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our MongoDB environments while providing strategic guidance on database architecture, automation, and operational efficiencies. This role will have a primary focus on MongoDB (Atlas), while also supporting relational database systems (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) as needed (approximately 25% RDBMS exposure).

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in MongoDB administration, performance tuning, and high availability strategies, as well as a strong understanding of relational databases in cloud-hosted environments. The Principal NoSQL Database Architect will play a key role in ensuring our database ecosystems are scalable, secure, and optimized to support mission-critical applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 

  • Lead MongoDB Strategy & Architecture – Design and maintain high-performance MongoDB (Atlas) environments, ensuring scalability, resilience, and efficiency.
  • Database Administration & Maintenance – Oversee installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and performance tuning for MongoDB and SQL Server/MySQL
  • Automation & Optimization – Develop automation for database provisioning, schema management, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.
  • High Availability & Disaster Recovery – Implement replication, failover, and data integrity best practices for both NoSQL and RDBMS databases.
  • Performance & Query Optimization – Analyze slow-running MongoDB queries, optimize indexing strategies, and ensure efficient execution plans for both NoSQL and SQL-based databases.
  • Collaboration with Development Teams – Provide best practices for MongoDB schema design while also supporting efficient SQL query structures.
  • Security & Compliance – Ensure MongoDB and SQL Server/MySQL databases meet security, compliance, and audit standards, including access control, encryption, and data retention policies.
  • Monitoring & Incident Response – Implement and maintain monitoring solutions for proactive performance tuning and troubleshooting of MongoDB and SQL Server/MySQL databases.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure Management – Work with AWS cloud services (MongoDB Atlas, RDS, EC2, S3) to optimize cost, performance, and availability.
  • Production Support & On-Call Rotation – Participate in an on-call rotation to support business-critical database issues outside regular hours.
  • Database Governance & Best Practices – Define and enforce standards for MongoDB schema design, indexing strategies, and query tuning, while ensuring best practices for SQL Server/MySQL where applicable.

 

Requirements:

  • 8 years of experience in database architecture, administration, and performance tuning, with a strong focus on MongoDB (Atlas).
  • Deep expertise in MongoDB administration, sharding, replication, performance tuning, and security best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with MongoDB Atlas, including automation, monitoring, and backup strategies.
  • Strong understanding of NoSQL data modeling principles and schema design best practices.
  • Familiarity with RDBMS databases (SQL Server or MySQL) and the ability to support them (~25% of responsibilities).
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to streamline database operations.
  • Experience with cloud-based database solutions (AWS, MongoDB Atlas, RDS, EC2, S3, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with database monitoring tools (New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work under pressure.
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment with JIRA for work tracking.

 

Bonus Skills:

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for database provisioning.
  • Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, or other distributed data technologies.
  • Certifications in MongoDB, AWS, or SQL Server/MySQL.

 

Salary Range: 160,000 - 185,000

RxSense believes that a diverse workforce is a more talented and productive workforce. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our recruitment process is free from discriminatory hiring practices and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin.  Neither will qualified applicants be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.  We believe in the strength of the collaboration, creativity and sense of community a diverse workforce brings. 

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