Associate Director, Enterprise Database Services

Job Title:

Associate Director, Enterprise Database Services

Location:

Kennesaw, Georgia

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Job

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens.

Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision.

Come Take Flight at KSU!

(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Provides leadership for the university's enterprise database services while maintaining active involvement in technical work. Leads the team responsible for managing database platforms that support mission-critical systems such as the Student Information System, administrative applications, and auxiliary applications. Ensures database services are secure, reliable, and optimized for performance, while aligning with institutional requirements for academic and administrative operations. Ensures that managerial responsibility blends with technical expertise to deliver scalable and cost-effective enterprise database services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides strategic and operational leadership for enterprise database and application administration services, balancing technical execution with managerial responsibility for staff and service delivery
• Leads the administration and optimization of enterprise database environments, including Oracle, SQL Server, and other platforms as adopted, supporting core university systems such as student, administrative, and auxiliary applications
• Manages database backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity
• Designs and implements database and application migration strategies for cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring stability, performance optimization, and cost effectiveness
• Ensures database services comply with institutional governance, privacy, and security policies, and applicable regulations such as FERPA, HIPAA, and PCI
• Oversees the Ellucian Banner Administration function, ensuring system availability, performance, and alignment with institutional needs
• Monitors performance and implement proactive measures for scalability, efficiency, and reliability
• Collaborates with university stakeholders, application owners, and IT leadership to align services with institutional priorities
• Develops and supervises staff through mentoring, professional growth opportunities, training, performance management, and knowledge sharing
• Evaluates emerging technologies and recommend adoption of tools that improve database services, application administration, and operational efficiency
• Fosters a culture of curiosity and innovation, continuous process improvement, ownership and accountability, building repeatable solutions, learning, and data-informed decision making

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education.

• Seven (7) years of related IT experience.

• An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field

• Previous experience…