Lead DBA

Job Overview

The Tech Lead DBA will provide technical and organizational leadership for a Team of 4-7 Database Administrators in a large-scale, multi-phase modernization of the company’s database platforms. This role will guide teams through the transition from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, ensuring operational continuity, strategic alignment, and smooth adoption of the new database ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings strong database expertise, proven leadership experience, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, and application organizations while shaping standards, processes, and long-term database strategy.

ICIMS is a leading enterprise hiring platform that combines the scale and reliability of enterprise software with the transformative power of AI. Thousands of organizations across more than 200 countries and territories trust ICIMS to find and hire the people who shape their future and drive their business forward. Powered by insights from billions of hiring interactions, continuous AI innovation, and a highly extensible platform, ICIMS helps organizations turn talent acquisition into a competitive advantage.

For more than 25 years, ICIMS has delivered end-to-end hiring solutions that improve recruiting efficiency, reduce costs and create exceptional candidate experiences.

ICIMS helps solve one of the biggest challenges businesses face today: building a workforce that can adapt, scale, and perform in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable talent market. We uniquely do that by combining enterprise-grade hiring technology, AI-powered insights and automation, and connected talent experiences to help organizations improve hiring outcomes while driving measurable impact.

• Lead and manage the multi-phase migration program from SQL Server to PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, setting direction, defining timelines, allocating resources, and ensuring minimal downtime and full data integrity across all environments.
• Oversee and mentor the DBA team responsible for administering both SQL Server and PostgreSQL during the transition, guiding them in performance tuning, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and security hardening.
• Develop and govern migration strategies
  , including schema modernization, data replication patterns, cutover execution, and application compatibility validation using AWS-native tools and best practices.
• Provide operational oversight by establishing processes for root-cause analysis, proactive issue detection, and environment stabilization while ensuring consistent and reliable platform operations across both database systems. Off hours support as needed
• Collaborate closely with engineering, application teams, cloud architects, and leadership stakeholders to ensure database architecture aligns with business goals, future scalability, and security/compliance standards.
• Drive documentation, standards, and knowledge-sharing frameworks including playbooks, runbooks, and onboarding materials to ensure long-term maintainability and smooth operational handoff once PostgreSQL becomes the primary platform.

• 10+ Years of Hands-on experience with AWS, specifically RDS for PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and Aurora.
• 8+ Years of Strong experience with PostgreSQL administration in production environments.
• Proven track record in production support, including on-call responsibilities.
• Experience with database monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting tools.
• Deep knowledge of backup, recovery, and HA/DR strategies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced global environment.
• Effective communicator and collaborator across technical teams.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to operational excellence
• Experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL data platform deployments and management

• Scripting and automation skills in Python.
• Exposure to other database technologies or data platforms; MSSQL, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience migrating MSSQL to PostgreSQL
• Exposure to other cloud technologies like Azure and GCP

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