Database Platforms Lead

About the role

The Database Platforms Lead is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the enterprise database platform strategy and architecture. This role ensures database technologies are scalable, secure, resilient, and optimized to support operational and analytical workloads across the organization. The position provides technical leadership for database standards, performance, availability, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, architecture, and standards for enterprise database platforms
• Oversee database operations, administration, monitoring, and support
• Ensure high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Manage database performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability
• Define and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance requirements
• Drive automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and maintenance
• Support database design, optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution
• Lead database upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives
• Establish operational procedures, runbooks, and documentation
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams
• Mentor and guide database engineers or DBAs
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend platform improvements
• Monitor and control platform costs and resource utilization
• Contribute to organization platform strategy and governance, including standardization, performance, reliability, security, cost optimization, automation, modernization, incident prevention, and scalable support for application and data teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with major database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or cloud‑managed databases
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Familiarity with automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, DevOps, and CI/CD practices
• Experience leading database migrations, consolidation, or modernization programs
• Background in database observability, monitoring, and operational excellence

Impact of the Role

This investment reduces operational risk, improves performance and reliability, strengthens security and compliance, and lowers long‑term costs through standardization and automation. It also helps engineering teams move faster by providing approved patterns, expert guidance, and better platform support. In short, investing in this role protects the business, improves efficiency, and enables scalable growth. The role will focus on automating core functions—Platform DB Operations—and will leverage AI to automate provisioning services.

About Us

Hitachi Digital Services is a global digital solutions and transformation business that powers good. We combine innovation, technology, and deep expertise to future‑proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. Our diverse, inclusive culture values mutual respect, merit‑based growth, and the unique perspectives each person brings. Together we turn organizations into data‑driven leaders that make a positive impact on their industries and society.

Benefits

We support your today and tomorrow with industry‑leading benefits, services, and holistic health and wellbeing programs. Flexible work arrangements are offered where role and location permit, and we continuously explore new ways of working that foster autonomy, freedom, and ownership while you collaborate with talented colleagues.