The Vice President, Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the strategic leadership, architecture, and operational management of all enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. This role ensures the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of mission-critical data systems while aligning database services with enterprise technology strategy.
This position oversees complex multi-platform ecosystems including relational, cloud-native, and analytical databases, and will lead both on-shore and off-shore resources in delivering highly available and secure database services.
This position requires strong technical depth combined with leadership capability, governance experience, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Database Strategy & Architecture- Define and drive enterprise database architecture standards, roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Establish best practices for scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.
Platform Administration & Engineering- Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
- Oracle (including Autonomous Database), PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database technologies as required.
- Responsibilities include high availability and disaster recovery architecture, performance tuning and capacity planning, patch and lifecycle management, automation and infrastructure-as-code practices, and optimization across OLTP and analytics workloads.
Cloud & Hybrid Database Operations- Lead database deployments across cloud platforms including AWS RDS, OCI Autonomous Database, and hybrid architectures.
- Develop governance frameworks for cloud database provisioning, cost optimization, and operational controls.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to implement automation, CI/CD integration, and platform observability with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code.
Security, Risk & Compliance- Ensure database platforms meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on vulnerability management, encryption standards, and access governance.
- Implement secure configuration baselines and data protection strategies.
Team Leadership & Resource Management- Lead and mentor both on-shore and off-shore database administration teams.
- Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers.
- Establish operational procedures, service level objectives, and performance metrics.
- Provide escalation leadership during critical incidents and production events.
Operational Excellence- Drive automation and standardization of database operations.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance practices.
- Improve reliability through continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support enterprise programs including cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and data center transitions.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated expertise across multiple database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB, DB2, Redshift, etc.).
- Proven experience managing hybrid cloud and on-prem database deployments.
- Experience leading distributed technical teams including offshore resources.
- Strategic thinker with strong execution capability
- Ability to balance governance with engineering innovation
- Strong incident leadership and crisis management experience
- Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security practices.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Autonomous Database, AWS RDS, or large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
- Background in IaC and CI/CD automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar).
- Experience supporting mission-critical or regulated environments.
- Knowledge of data warehousing, analytics platforms, and modern data engineering patterns.
Employee Programs & Benefits:CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:
- Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
- Employee assistance & wellness programs
- Parental and family leave policies
- CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.
- Charitable contribution match program
- Tuition assistance & reimbursement
- Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
- Competitive paid time off
- Continued learning opportunities
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