Senior Database Architect - Battery Energy Storage Systems d/f/m

Senior Database Architect – Battery Energy Storage Systems d/f/m

Join to apply for the Senior Database Architect – Battery Energy Storage Systems d/f/m role at RWE .

Full-time, permanent, start as soon as possible.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize TimescaleDB for large-scale time‑series workloads, including schema design, indexing strategies, and advanced query tuning to ensure peak performance under high‑volume ingestion.
• Fine‑tune Kafka brokers, topics, and consumer configurations to maximize throughput, resilience, and operational efficiency across all streaming pipelines.
• Validate, monitor, and improve data flows from Kafka into TimescaleDB, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and reliable real‑time delivery.
• Enhance and optimize Go‑based consumers, implementing performance improvements, scalability enhancements, and best practices for clean, maintainable code.
• Audit, refactor, and streamline the existing solution, improving maintainability, readability, and long‑term architectural alignment with industry standards.
• Collaborate closely with Ignition SCADA systems to guarantee accurate, low‑latency data ingestion into Kafka and early detection of data flow disruptions.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the entire data pipeline, including TimescaleDB, Kafka, Go applications, and SCADA integration points, while ensuring high availability, rapid issue resolution, and comprehensive technical documentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in database architecture, data engineering, or distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL as well as time‑series optimization, along with deep experience in Kafka producer–consumer design and tuning.
• Proficient in Go, capable of writing efficient, modular, production‑grade services.
• Hands‑on experience with Linux, containers, like Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices, including tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and performance monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Familiarity with industrial systems, ideally Ignition SCADA, and comfort working with real‑time operational data flows.
• Analytical, solution‑focused mindset with strong ownership, excellent communication, and business‑fluent English and good German skills.

Benefits

• Salary £65,000–£85,000, bonus 15% per scheme rules, personal retirement savings plan with top‑up, life assurance worth 4× annual salary.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro‑rata.
• Company‑paid private medical insurance for you and your family.
• Enhanced parental leave from day 1: primary caregivers 12–29 weeks fully paid, 30–39 weeks paid via SMP; secondary caregivers 12 weeks fully paid.
• One free professional membership subscription.
• Flexible benefits: Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave, and retail savings scheme.
• Occupational health support services and employee assistance programme in times of need.
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year.

Apply

Apply with code 91428 . Application period ends . Contact HR: Lisa Merryweather, +44 78 6737‑0980.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Utilities

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