AVP, Enterprise Database Platforms & Operations

AVP, Enterprise Database Platforms & Operations

The AVP, Enterprise Database Platforms & Operations is a senior technology leadership role responsible for the end-to-end strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, and product lifecycle management of Voya's enterprise database platforms.

This role is accountable for delivering highly available, resilient, and scalable database platforms that directly support mission-critical business applications and client-facing services.

This leader will drive platform reliability, resiliency, security, automation, AIOps adoption, cloud transformation, and cost optimization across a diverse portfolio of database technologies.

Success in this role will be measured by platform stability (uptime and SLAs), modernization progress, automation maturity, and reduction of operational risk and cost.

This role requires a strong technical and people leader with proven experience building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD and Database-as-Code platforms, implementing automation and AIOps, leading on-prem to cloud migrations (Azure), and operating platforms through robust ITSM, governance, and product-centric operating models.

This role ensures Voya's database platforms operate as strategic, resilient, and cost-effective products. It is critical to enabling cloud transformation, reducing operational risk, and ensuring consistent performance for customer-facing and internal business applications.

Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the enterprise database platform strategy across relational, No
  
  SQL, in-memory, engineered systems, and cloud-native platforms
• Translate business and application needs into standardized, scalable database platform capabilities
• Establish reference architectures, standards, patterns, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business, security, and regulatory requirements

Provide architectural leadership across:

• Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• MongoDB, Redis
• Oracle Exadata / Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)
• Oracle ZDLRA and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• Azure database platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and managed services)
• Drive capacity planning, performance engineering, scalability, and resiliency design across on-prem and Azure environments

Database Engineering, Automation & AIOps

• Lead enterprise adoption of automation-first and self-service database platforms
• Stand up standardized, repeatable database provisioning and configuration pipelines to reduce manual intervention
• Build and govern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for Database-as-Code
• Enable automated provisioning, configuration, schema versioning, and standardized builds
• Advance AIOps capabilities for predictive insights and proactive incident detection
• Drive measurable reduction in incident volume and MTTR through automation and observability integration
• Integrate automation and AIOps with observability and ITSM workflows

Cloud, Hybrid & Migration Leadership

• Lead large-scale database migrations from on-premises to Azure and hybrid cloud platforms in partnership with key stakeholders
• Define migration strategies including re-hosting, re-platforming, modernization, and consolidation
• Prioritize and sequence migration initiatives based on business impact, risk, and cost optimization opportunities
• Optimize cloud platforms for availability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Establish cloud operational, resiliency, and security standards

Operations, ITSM & Platform Reliability

• Own 24x7 production operations with strict SLAs
• Ensure clear ownership models, escalation paths, and accountability across global support teams
• Ensure adherence to ITSM processes including incident, problem, and change management
• Govern CI/CD-driven change and release processes
• Lead post-incident reviews and systemic issue remediation
• Drive a proactive reliability model rather than reactive support

Business Continuity, Resiliency & Cyber Recovery

• Ensure platforms meet RTO/RPO and resiliency standards
• Define cyber-recovery and ransomware readiness strategies in partnership with the Business Resiliency office
• Implement immutable backups, clean-room recovery, and…