VP, Platform Engineering - Database

Database Manager

Lead the MS SQL team for enterprise data platforms as a senior leader in Infrastructure and Operations organization. Define and execute database platform strategy, vision, and roadmap for cloud and hybrid‑cloud. Drive engineering of highly scalable data solutions and manage a team of full‑time, contract, and managed service resources.

• Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for SQL Server environment.
• Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always‑on enterprise applications and services.
• Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self‑service and reduce handoffs.
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi‑year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model.
• Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack).
• Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid‑cloud.
• Provide Tier 2,3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation.
• Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day‑to‑day technology engineering and operations.
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy.
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization.
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness.
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services.
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization.

Strong collaborators who can deliver a world‑class client experience. Thrive in a fast‑paced environment, are client‑focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

• 10+ years of data solution architecture, design, development and platform engineering experience; SQL Server expert.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience working within large, global financial institutions. Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions to the cloud.
• 5+ years experience architecting modern data integration frameworks, data modeling, ETL/ELT workflows, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns.
• 5+ years experience and proven track record leading migration of data platforms to new data centers and/or AWS.

• Proven expertise in database platforms (SQL Server/Always On, Oracle/RAC, PostgreSQL), AWS RDS, DynamoDB.
• Proven expertise in cloud data services such as OLTP, ODS, data lake and analytics platforms.
• Proven expertise in data warehousing, big data and analytics platforms (Red Shift, EMR, Dataiku, Tableau, Presto).
• Proven track record developing, communicating and executing multi-year technology strategy and roadmaps.
• Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes.
• Agile mindset; thorough understanding of modern work practices such as Dev Ops, Continuous Delivery, Agile project delivery.
• Extensive experience utilizing management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage data platforms at scale.
• Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, security, privacy and risk safeguards required of a global financial institution.

• AWS LZ, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Red Shift, RDS, Snowflake, ECS, EKS, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Jira, Terraform, Grid Gain Cache, Five Tran HVR.
• CI/CD (Git Hub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, JSON, YAML).
• Agile Methodologies:
  Scrum/Kanban.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence.