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

RWE Technology International GmbH

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

About the role

• 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.

Job requirements and experience

RWE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment – we value your passion, your willingness to learn and your desire to thrive. So, if you don’t display all the skills above but think this is the job for you, need flexible working arrangements or adjustments which aren’t outlined already, we would still like to hear from you.

Your Benefits

Apply with just a few clicks : ad code 91428 , application period : 18.01.2026

Any questions? Contact HR : Lisa Merryweather, +44 78 6737-0980

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RWE Technology International is the strategic business partner to companies and organisations worldwide bringing the energy transformation forward. This includes a wide range of global consulting services and projects, especially on blue and green hydrogen (H2), wind power and solar energy, as well as biomass power plants and battery storage. RWE Technology International minimises risks and costs for clients in the planning, construction, operation and dismantling of energy plants as well as in the recultivation of opencast mines and post-mining landscapes. Our around 500 employees follow their vision in helping clients reduce their carbon footprint and create new technologies and processes along the entire lifecycle.