• Function as a technical leader and advisor within the data technology field at TCGplayer, nurturing the growth and progress of both the company and individual engineers • Provide technical expertise and insight as you work with other teams to develop data flow strategies and define storage needs for microservices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with system architecture • Manage cross-application projects for datastores, emphasizing security, software currency, data governance, and platform migrations • Research emerging capabilities in both the datastores used by the organization and the broader marketplace to inform long-term strategic planning in the data domain • Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores and queries/aggregations against those structures, optimizing for performance and scalability • Write minimal yet effective code, primarily database queries to facilitate data management and manipulation and proof-of-concepts for suggested techniques • Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and re-platformed apps, focusing on transactional microservices and event-driven systems to meet current and future data needs