Database Platforms Lead
About the role
We are on the lookout for a passionate and highly motivated Database Platforms Lead who will be 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.
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.
- Database standardization and best practices.
- Performance, reliability, and availability.
- Security, compliance, and risk reduction.
- Cost optimization and platform rationalization.
- Automation and self-service capabilities.
- Modernization and cloud migration.
- Incident prevention and root cause remediation.
- Scalable support for application and data teams.
- Long-term enterprise growth and operational excellence.
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 and 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.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental Insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Pay
The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.
Schedule
N/A
Skills
Not specified
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental Insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance