AVP, Enterprise Database Platforms & Operations

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture
• Define and own the enterprise database platform strategy
• Translate business and application needs into standardized, scalable database platform capabilities
• Establish reference architectures, standards, patterns, and multi-year roadmaps
• Drive capacity planning, performance engineering, scalability, and resiliency design
• Provide Architectural Leadership Across Diverse Database Technologies
• Lead on-prem to cloud migrations (Azure)
• Own 24x7 production operations with strict SLAs
• Manage platform lifecycle from ideation through retirement
• Drive refresh, upgrades, standardization, and technical debt reduction
• Stakeholder Partnership
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Application, Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Business leaders

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise database architecture, engineering, and operations
• Proven experience operating in a senior leadership role with accountability for large-scale, 24x7 production environments
• Deep hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
• Proven success building and scaling Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and Database-as-Code capabilities
• Demonstrated experience leading database modernization and migration programs across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, resiliency engineering, cyber recovery, observability, ITSM, security controls, and governance practices
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical credibility