Manager, Database Administration

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Healthcare • SaaS • Supply chain management • Automation

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Description

• The Manager, Database Administration will lead a team responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining database systems that support critical data operations across the organization. • This role will be instrumental in setting strategic direction for database architecture, ensuring high availability and performance, and enabling data-driven decision-making. • The successful candidate will drive initiatives around automation, security, and cloud integration while adhering to industry standards and regulatory compliance, such as SOC, HiTrust, PCI, HIPAA and GDPR. • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of database administrators and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability. • Set clear team OKRs and goals aligned with organizational objectives, conducting regular performance reviews and providing ongoing feedback. • Partner with HR on recruiting and retaining top talent, ensuring team capacity meets future workload and project demands. • Architect and oversee robust, scalable, and secure database environments, leveraging best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and data integrity. • Collaborate with DevOps and cloud teams to develop and implement cloud migration strategies, hybrid architectures, and automation solutions (e.g., Cloud Formation, SALT, python scripts, shell scripts). • Drive the adoption of emerging database technologies and frameworks, keeping the organization competitive and prepared for future demands. • Deep knowledge of database internals from installation, to patching and upgrade, and customer parameter tuning. • Proactively monitor database systems to identify performance bottlenecks and implement tuning strategies, including indexing, query optimization, and storage management. • Analyze workload patterns and advise on capacity planning and forecasting to ensure databases are resilient and responsive to growth. • Oversee automation initiatives in backup, recovery, and failover procedures to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability. • Ensure 24/7 database uptime and availability, establishing and refining incident management protocols to minimize downtime and improve response time. • Develop and enforce SLAs and operational KPIs, producing regular reports on database health, performance, and capacity. • Coordinate with infrastructure and security teams to execute patching, upgrades, and compliance audits, maintaining system security and integrity. • Lead efforts to implement and maintain data privacy and compliance requirements, including HiTrust, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI and SOC, as applicable. • Design and enforce access controls, encryption standards, and data masking policies to safeguard sensitive data. • Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests, applying mitigations for identified risks. • Work closely with executives, development, quality assurance, systems engineering, and data engineering teams to align database architecture with application requirements, ensuring smooth data flow and integration. • Engage with product and business stakeholders to understand upcoming needs, ensuring database systems support evolving business requirements. • Represent the database team in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and strategy sessions, advocating for optimal database solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience). • 10+ years of experience in database administration with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role. • Working with managed services partners, offshore resources, remote and distributed teams. • Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (scrum, springs, kanban), DevOps practices, and ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Jira) with an understanding of CI/CD pipelines. • Knowledge of ITIL/ITSM practices, with experience in creating and managing runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation. • Hands on keyboard experience with multiple database engines such as MySQL (onprem, self-hosted and RDS) , MongoDB (Atlas, EC2 hosted), ElasticSearch (ElasticCloud, EC2 hosted), PostgreSQL (onprem, self-hosted and RDS), Redis, Oracle, MSSQL • Certifications in database platforms (e.g., Oracle Certified Professional, Microsoft SQL Server) or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) preferred. • Familiarity with data engineering concepts, including ETL, data warehousing, and data lakes, supporting analytics and reporting requirements. • Experience managing database environments in a microservices or containerized ecosystem (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). • Experience implementing air-gapped backups. • Exposure to Big Data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift) and experience integrating structured and unstructured data sources.