Senior Database Administrator

Job Title: Vice President, Senior Database Administrator

Location: Stamford, CT (4 days onsite in a week)

Position Type: Fulltime position

Responsibilities:

What we need:

• (Player / Coach) Have to be technical and be able to manage our DBA contract staff.
• Stronger DevOps Background as we pivot to Infrastructure as Code – Database Development Background.
• Must have strong Oracle and Snowflake DBA/Development skills.

The Vice President, Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the strategic leadership, architecture, and operational management of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, with a primary focus on Oracle databases and the Snowflake cloud data platform. 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 spanning relational, cloud-native, and analytical databases and leads both onshore and offshore resources in delivering highly available and secure database services. Key responsibilities include Oracle administration, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery, alongside Snowflake administration, access governance, workload optimization, and compute cost management. This position requires deep, hands-on expertise in Oracle and Snowflake, combined with leadership capability, governance experience, and cross-functional collaboration across data engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture:

• Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms, with primary emphasis on Snowflake & Oracle.
• Support and advise on additional relational and enterprise database technologies as required, including PostgreSQL, Sybase, IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and other platforms.
• Maintain broader database competency across both relational and non-relational technologies, including MongoDB and other enterprise data platforms as business needs evolve.

Platform Administration & Engineering:

• Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
• Oracle (including Autonomous Database), Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, 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 both Oracle & Snowflake platforms.
• 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.