Database Manager

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Austin, TX

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About the position

The Database Manager will lead the MS SQL team for enterprise data platforms. As a senior leader in Infrastructure and Operations organization, you will have the opportunity to define/execute database platform strategy / vision and roadmap for cloud and hybrid-cloud. This role will define next generation data architecture/platforms and be accountable for engineering of highly scalable data solutions. This position is a people manager role for a team of Full Time, Contract, and Managed Service resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for cloud enterprise data platform architecture and engineering
• Provide Tier 3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
• Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
• Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack)
• Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
• Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations

Requirements

• 10+ years of people leadership with a passion for performance management for highly skilled teams within a large company (Fortune 500)
• 10+ years of optimizing processes for a highly performant team including work intake/management, capacity management, stakeholder partnership, vendor management, and managed provider expertise
• 5 years demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions for on, near, and offshore teams
• Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation

Nice-to-haves

• AWS LZ, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RedShift, RDS, Snowflake, ECS, EKS, RDS, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Jira, Terraform, GridGain Cache, FiveTran HVR
• CI/CD (GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
• Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban

Benefits

• 401K matching
• health benefits
• employee stock options
• paid time off
• volunteer time off