Senior Data Platform Administrator

This position is for a senior individual contributor who owns reliability and operational standards across the full database platform: SQL Server (on-prem), Azure SQL, AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, the Snowflake operational layer, and the Delphix data virtualization platform. This role leads complex migration and modernization projects, defines best practices for the team, mentors mid-level administrators, and serves as a primary technical decision-maker on platform architecture.

The role partners directly with Senior Data Solutions Engineers, the Data Solutions Architect, application engineering leadership, and Dev Ops.

At this time, we are not considering applicants who require employment authorization sponsorship (1) as a condition of eligibility for employment with the Company or (2) at any point during the term of their employment. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship by the Company.

Position Summary:

This position is for a senior individual contributor who owns reliability and operational standards across the full database platform: SQL Server (on-prem), Azure SQL, AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, the Snowflake operational layer, and the Delphix data virtualization platform. This role leads complex migration and modernization projects, defines best practices for the team, mentors mid-level administrators, and serves as a primary technical decision-maker on platform architecture.

The role partners directly with Senior Data Solutions Engineers, the Data Solutions Architect, application engineering leadership, and Dev Ops.

Key Responsibilities:

Database Platform Leadership Own reliability standards across the full database portfolio: SQL Server, Azure SQL, Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, Snowflake (operational layer).Define and maintain SLI/SLO standards, capacity planning practices, and cost governance models across cloud database services.

Lead database migration and modernization projects end-to-end: on-prem to cloud transitions, version upgrades, engine consolidations, and platform retirements.

Design multi-region high-availability architectures and cross-cloud disaster recovery strategies for tier-1 workloads.

Drive cloud database cost optimization: right-sizing analysis, reserved capacity strategy, workload management, query consolidation.

Set the standard for performance tuning, troubleshooting methodology, and incident response across the platform team.

Modernization, Automation & Replication Drive automation of routine database operations through Power Shell, Python, and schema migration tooling (Flyway, Liquibase, DBMaestro).Own the operational architecture of replication topologies including HVR, AWS DMS, Meltano, and SQL Server native replication.

Own Delphix administration at the platform level: engine sizing, dSource strategy, masking design, capacity planning, API automation.

Lead modernization of legacy MS BI workloads (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, SSMDS) in partnership with the Data Solutions Engineering track on the analytics layer.

Operate Snowflake at architectural depth: warehouse strategy, RBAC design, cost governance, resource monitors, data sharing.

Observability, Security & Compliance Define the observability standard across the database estate using App Dynamics, Data Dog, DBADash, and custom monitoring.

Own database security posture: encryption strategy (TDE, TLS, KMS, customer-managed keys), access governance, audit logging, vulnerability management.

Lead implementation of compliance controls for relevant frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).Partner with security teams on database hardening, secrets management, and incident response.

Mentorship & Influence Mentor…