Data Platforms Lead (Hybrid)

• Min. 3x/week in office at client site in Dallas; mindset is the most important, and they want someone forward-thinking rather than a traditional DBA

Role will focus on automating our core functions – Platform DB Operations

Role will be leveraging AI to automate provisioning services 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

• 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

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, 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.

Where will this role impact:

• 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.

• Role will focus on automating our core functions – Platform DB Operations

• Role will be leveraging AI to automate provisioning services 

Deliverables:

-Process Flows