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Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Silicon Valley Chapter · 12 hours ago

Technical Leadership Advisor - Oracle Database

Redwood City, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Silicon Valley Chapter is seeking a Technical Leadership Advisor with a strong background in Oracle database technologies. This role involves providing technical and business insights to guide Oracle's database offerings into future technologies, requiring expertise in various RDBMS platforms and experience in cloud-native architectures.

Non-profit Organization Management

Responsibilities

Demonstrate strong technical and business inputs to prioritize the most important work that will see through Oracle's database offerings into future states of technology

Deep hands-on experience with major RDBMS platforms

Database architecture and performance tuning experience

Data modeling (OLTP and OLAP) and strong SQL/query optimization background

Experience with high availability, replication, disaster recovery, and backup strategies

Understanding of NoSQL vs RDBMS trade-offs, for broader context

Experience in migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to PostgreSQL, on-prem to cloud)

Experience designing data architectures for enterprise-scale applications

Familiarity with data governance, data lineage, and compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)

Ability to assess and align technology decisions with business objectives

Comfortable evaluating buy vs build decisions and vendor solutions

Acts as a force multiplier for the CTO or Chief Architect

Capable of leading initiatives and coordinating between multiple technical teams

Strong written and verbal communication skills — can produce executive-level artifacts and detailed technical docs

Cross-functional influence – can work across engineering, operations, product, and even customer-facing roles

Excellent at prioritization, project planning, and follow-through

Trusted advisor to senior tech leaders

Able to mentor engineers and drive alignment without direct authority

Strong meeting facilitation and conflict-resolution skills

Diplomacy and discretion — can handle sensitive conversations and decisions

Qualification

RDBMS expertiseCloud-native architecturesDatabase architectureData modelingSQL/query optimizationMigration strategiesData governanceTechnical documentationProject planningCross-functional influenceConflict resolutionMentoring

Required

10–20+ years in software engineering / database administration / data architecture roles

Previously a Principal Engineer, Database Architect, Data Platform Lead, or Engineering Manager for data-heavy systems

Experience in cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), especially with managed RDBMS services

Comfortable reading different coding languages such as C or C++

Deep Hands-on Experience With Major RDBMS Platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, or newer cloud-native RDBMS like Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, or Azure SQL