Role Summary 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
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