Career Explorer Computing and maths
Grows with AI
Database architects
Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 13% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +9.4% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $139,500
- Job growth to 2035
- +9.4%
- Openings a year
- 3,900
- People doing it (2025)
- 69,500
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Develop operational or technical procedures or standards
- Design computer or information systems or applications
- Develop models of systems, processes, or products
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Design databases
- Maintain operational records
- Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures
What the work looks like
- Develop and document database architectures.
- Collaborate with system architects, software architects, design analysts, and others to understand business or industry requirements.
- Develop database architectural strategies at the modeling, design and implementation stages to address business or industry requirements.
- Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability.
- Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Data scientistsGrows with AI, Index 22, +34.6%
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Also known as: Database Analyst, Database Developer, Database Programmer, Information Architect, Data Warehouse Analyst, Data Warehouse Solution Architect, Data Architect, Data Engineer.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.