Global Database Manager

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When you become part of our K  team, your opportunities are endless. Through internal collaboration, and with our partners and customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the innovative solutions to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to Zero Harm and our Sustainability Platform. In September 2025, we announced that we are spinning our Mission Technology Solutions business into a separate public company.

This role would ultimately be part of that new company. Our Mission Technology Solutions business partners with governments and defense, intelligence, space, aviation, and critical infrastructure customers to deliver high-end engineering, science, technology, and mission support solutions. From national security and readiness to advanced research, cyber, logistics, and life-cycle sustainment, our teams help customers solve complex challenges in some of the world’s most demanding environments.

Whether supporting operations on the ground, at sea, in the air, or in space, our clients trust us to deliver mission-critical capabilities every day.

Working with us means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

We are strategic enablers of the business, delivering scalable, secure, and innovative technology solutions that drive operational excellence and support enterprise growth. We partner closely with functions across the organization to modernize systems, unlock data-driven insights, and enhance the digital employee experience. Our global footprint and commitment to transformation position us at the forefront of leveraging technology to create lasting business value.

The Global Database Manager is responsible for leading and developing a geographically dispersed team supporting the organization’s global database platforms and services. This role provides strategic direction, operational oversight, and governance for enterprise database environments, ensuring reliability, security, scalability, and compliance across the global technology landscape.

The ideal candidate is an experienced technology leader with deep database expertise and a proven track record of managing global teams, complex infrastructure environments, and cross-functional stakeholder relationships. This individual will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application teams, vendors, and IT leadership to drive operational excellence, modernization initiatives, resource optimization, and continuous improvement across the database ecosystem.

• Provide leadership and direction for a global database administration team supporting enterprise database platforms and services.
• Establish and maintain operational standards that ensure high availability, recoverability, performance, and security across database environments.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, operational efficiency, capacity planning, and service reliability.
• Oversee database backup, recovery, disaster recovery testing, and business continuity processes.
• Ensure database platforms remain compliant with security, licensing, audit, governance, and organizational standards.
• Develop and execute database modernization strategies, including upgrades, patching activities, and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and architecture teams to support business initiatives and resolve complex cross-platform issues.
• Guide performance monitoring, capacity management, and proactive risk mitigation activities…