Lead Database Platform Engineer

Hybrid in Minnetonka, MN, US • Posted 4 days ago • Updated 3 days ago

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Title: Lead Database Platform Engineer
Location: Minnetonka, MN or Madison, WI | Hybrid; Tuesday - Thursday
Job Type: Contract-to-Hire
Hourly rate: $50 -$80 p/h DOE
Conversion Salary: $98,400-$154,600
Industry: Health Insurance

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About the Role
We are partnering with a large, mission-driven organization in the healthcare and health insurance space to hire a Lead Database Platform Engineer. This is a senior-level platform engineering role focused on building, automating, and operating enterprise database platforms at scale. The position emphasizes ownership, technical leadership, and enablement rather than ticket-based execution or pure individual contribution.

This role is not early-career and is not a pure hands-on IC role. The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility, operates comfortably in ambiguous environments, and is motivated to expand leadership scope over time by influencing standards, practices, and team capability.

Job Description
The Lead Database Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, automating, and operating enterprise database platforms with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, resiliency, and delivery enablement.
This role supports Snowflake as the primary analytics database platform while also enabling broader enterprise platforms including PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle, and SQL Server. The position is centered on platform engineering, not analytics delivery, and partners closely with cloud engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to provide consistent, self-service database capabilities across development pipelines in an Azure cloud environment.
As a technical leader, this role plays a key part in transforming the database function into a CI/CD-enabled database platform team, driving adoption through standards, automation, documentation, and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities
Database Platform Engineering

Design, implement, and evolve Snowflake account, environment, and workload architectures aligned with defined platform standards.
Support enterprise database platforms (Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) using shared automation patterns and operational practices.
Define and enforce database platform standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Automation and CI/CD

Own and evolve CI/CD patterns for database platforms to enable safe, repeatable, and automated delivery across environments.
Design and implement infrastructure-as-code and database change automation using tools such as Terraform, Liquibase, and Git-based workflows.
Automate environment provisioning, onboarding, and access workflows to reduce manual effort and delivery friction.
Ensure consistency across development, test, and production environments.

Cloud and Azure Integration

Partner with cloud engineering teams to integrate database platforms with Azure networking, identity, and security architectures.
Support cloud-first and hybrid database deployment models aligned with enterprise standards.
Enable secure and scalable connectivity between database platforms, applications, and downstream data services.

Resiliency and Disaster Recovery

Implement replication, failover, and recovery patterns to meet defined recovery objectives.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery runbooks, validation procedures, and testing practices.
Participate in resiliency testing and continuous improvement of recovery strategies.

Observability and Operations

Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility for performance, capacity, and cost usage.
Support incident response and root cause analysis for database platform issues.
Reduce operational toil through automation and improved platform standards.
Document operational patterns, runbooks, and platform requirements.

Cross-Team Collaboration and Technical Leadership

Act as a technical lead influencing database platform direction and adoption across teams.
Partner with application, data, cloud, and security teams to remove delivery bottlenecks.
Mentor engineers and database administrators through standards, documentation, guidance, and hands-on support.
Enable team members to operate as DevOps-oriented database practitioners within delivery teams.

Qualifications
Required

Extensive hands-on experience operating enterprise database platforms in production environments.
Strong experience with Snowflake and at least one of the following: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
Proven experience designing, building, and owning CI/CD pipelines for database or infrastructure platforms.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, and Git-based workflows.
Experience integrating database platforms within Azure environments, including networking, identity, and security services.
Strong understanding of role-based access control (RBAC), security models, and least-privilege design.
Demonstrated ability to lead platform changes across teams and operate effectively in environments with ambiguity and cross-team dependencies.
A strong ownership mindset, focusing on outcomes, enablement, and reliability rather than ticket-based execution.
Ability to clearly explain architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring, coaching, or developing engineers and database administrators through standards, documentation, and hands-on guidance.
Comfort influencing without formal authority and partnering across application, cloud, data, and security teams.
Evidence of progressive growth into increased responsibility over time.
This is a senior-level role and not an early-career or pure individual contributor position.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

Experience implementing Liquibase or similar database change management tooling.
Experience with data replication, CDC, or event-driven integration patterns.
Experience designing, testing, and validating database disaster recovery strategies.
Experience with cost governance, resource optimization, and usage monitoring.
Prior experience acting as a technical lead, platform engineer, or enablement-focused senior engineer.
Demonstrated interest in expanding leadership scope over time, including platform strategy and team maturity.

Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.

How to Apply
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Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!

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About Dahl Consulting

Since 1993, Dahl Consulting has been a leader in providing and implementing adaptive staffing and workforce solutions for its clients. DAHL specializes in workforce process management, vendor management services, as well as sourcing and staffing services. Their workforce solutions and programs ensure clients have the right people, the right process, and the right relationships, all at the right cost. DAHL s size and service offerings enable them the flexibility to provide simple and affordable solutions adaptable to any enterprise s current program, as well as future growth. Visit www.dahlconsulting.com for more information.

The mission of Dahl Consulting is to assist businesses with the creation, delivery, and support of new and existing systems to improve their level of performance through one or a combination of our service offerings. Our core competency is managing the process of procuring contract and temporary labor by finding creative ways to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the customer's contingent labor program.

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