Neo4J Platform Architect

Neo4j Platform Architect

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Neo4j Platform Architect to lead the design and consolidation of our Neo4j graph database estate. You’ll own the end-to-end architecture — from discovery and target-state design through migration strategy, platform standards, and hands-on technical leadership of the engineering team building it out.

This is a senior, design-authority role: you’ll be the person client stakeholders turn to for architecture decisions, trade-off conversations, and sign-off on build and migration work.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead discovery and define the target architecture — including options for consolidating existing databases, instance sizing, and the overall tenancy model.
• Decide how workloads get deployed — building a clear framework for choosing between self-hosted infrastructure and managed SaaS (Neo4j AuraDB), based on regulatory, data residency, and security requirements.
• Design the cluster architecture — topology, high availability, and disaster recovery, tailored to each workload’s criticality tier.
• Own the migration strategy end-to-end — how databases get consolidated, how cutover happens, how you validate success, and how you’d roll back if something goes wrong.
• Produce the core planning documents — sizing and cost model inputs, and a consolidated Discovery & Assessment Findings Report with a prioritized roadmap leadership can act on.
• Set the platform standards — security, access control, monitoring, backups, and release management that the whole platform will run on.
• Act as the design authority for the engineering team — reviewing and approving build and migration work before it ships.
• Present to stakeholders — walking client leadership and steering committees through architecture options, trade-offs, and your recommendations.

What You Need to Bring

Experience:

• 8+ years in data platform architecture, including 4+ years of hands-on work with Neo4j Enterprise
• A track record of architecting and defending technical recommendations in front of client stakeholders, backed by clear design documentation

Core technical skills (must-have):

• Deep understanding of Neo4j causal clustering — Raft consensus, quorum behavior, and leader election
• Solid grasp of multi-database tenancy, database-level RBAC, and isolation models
• Strong command of Neo4j sizing: page cache and heap configuration, licensable-core sizing, storage and transaction-log volume planning
• Hands-on experience with migration mechanics: neo4j-admin dump/load, online backup and restore, delta synchronization, and read-replica seeding
• Experience planning version upgrades and end-of-life transitions across Neo4j major versions
• Solid cloud infrastructure architecture skills, ideally on AWS — compute selection, network topology, and private connectivity patterns
• Proven experience consolidating fragmented database estates into a shared or multi-tenant platform

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience architecting on Neo4j AuraDB — its limits, architecture, and private endpoint connectivity
• Familiarity with Graph Data Science and Bloom deployment and licensing
• Experience in a regulated industry (life sciences, pharma, financial services), including qualification and validation processes
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Neo4j Certified Professional and/or AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Exposure to FinOps or software asset management concepts