Analysis Skills, Architectural Services, Data Modeling, DataArchitect Data Modeling Tool, Distributed Databases, Identify Issues, Leadership, Mentoring, Quality Assurance, Scorecarding, Transaction Processing/Management
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Modeling
" Define the Logical Canonical Data Model (LCDM) independent of physical storage.
" Design Spanner-native physical schemas:
o Primary key strategy
o Row key distribution (hotspot avoidance)
o Interleaving decisions
o Secondary index strategy
" Decide where denormalization, projections, or materialized views are required.
Transaction & Consistency Design
" Define transaction boundaries under Spanner constraints:
o Single-partition vs multi-partition transactions
o Atomicity and consistency trade-offs
" Classify workloads by strong consistency vs bounded staleness tolerance.
" Define idempotency and retry-safe patterns.
Compatibility & Contract Validation
" Work with QA and platform teams to validate:
o CRUD contracts
o Query semantics
o Transaction invariants
" Review and sign off on schema compatibility scorecards.
Performance & Scalability
" Participate in workload replay analysis.
" Diagnose and resolve:
o Hot key risks
o Transaction conflicts
o Index amplification
" Size Spanner instances and estimate cost envelopes.
Leadership
" Act as final authority for Spanner data design decisions.
" Mentor domain architects and engineers.
" Provide executive-level architectural rationale.
Required Skills & Experience
" 10+ years in large-scale data architecture
" Deep expertise in Google Spanner internals:
o TrueTime
o Distributed transactions
o Synchronous replication
" Experience designing petabyte-scale, multi-region OLTP systems
" Strong understanding of:
o Distributed consistency models
o Failure modes in globally distributed databases
" Prior Oracle distributed DB migration experience strongly preferred