Senior Manager - Database Engineering

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Sr Manager, Database Engineering

Job Summary:

As the Sr Manager of Database Engineering at Zelis, you will lead a distributed engineering team responsible for the reliability, performance, security, modernization, and lifecycle management of enterprise database platforms across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and on-premises environments. You will translate database strategy into executable roadmaps, establish clear operational ownership and engineering standards, and partner with application, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver measurable improvements in platform resilience, automation, and modernization.

This is a people-leadership role that requires sufficient technical depth to guide architecture and engineering decisions, coach engineers, resolve escalated issues, and ensure sound operating practices. The Sr Manager will remain engaged in complex troubleshooting and design reviews while enabling senior engineers to own day-to-day technical execution.

A primary focus over the next two to three years will be executing the re-platforming and modernization of appropriate applications away from Microsoft SQL Server and expanding strategic platforms including PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The Sr Manager will coordinate workload assessments, migration planning, delivery priorities, risk management, and stakeholder alignment while ensuring the existing SQL Server estate remains reliable throughout the transition.

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of Database Engineers across onshore and offshore locations, establishing clear ownership, performance expectations, engineering standards, career development plans, and succession coverage.
• Manage operational accountability for the enterprise database estate across on-premises, Azure, and AWS environments, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, scalability, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and platform health.
• Translate the database modernization strategy into a prioritized two-to-three-year roadmap, delivery plans, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide technical direction across Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, using senior engineers…