Database Platforms Lead

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