SQL Server Lead DBA

Join Mizuho as a SQL Server Lead DBA! In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team accountable for the company’s SQL Server database systems ensuring resiliency, uptime, HA/DR, performance, capacity planning, overall monitoring, compliance, and documentation. The ideal candidate provides oversight for day‑to‑day operational health, incident management, and service reliability across SQL Server database environments. The successful candidate requires a service‑oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, a focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with Mizuho SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with stakeholders to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established time frames.

• Manage and lead a small team of DBAs, providing guidance and sharing best practices.
• Experience conducting enterprise modernization and upgrade programs.
• Identify, assess, and elevate operational risks to senior leadership with clear mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with large financial services or similarly complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to push back constructively on misaligned demands, unclear ownership, or inappropriate risk transfer.
• Utilize available toolset (Ops Ramp, SQL Sentry, Embarcadero DB/Artisan, etc.) for database tuning. Generate traces, execution plans, identify and resolve performance issues, and address deadlocks/contention.
• Develop HA/DR strategies to meet or exceed application RTO/RPO targets and implement solutions for managing backup and recovery.
• Support and mentor software developers to drive proper coding practices and assist in the development of complex SQL, tuning of DML, and the creation of stored procedures/functions/triggers/etc.
• Participate in and manage a 24x7 on‑call rotation to support the database environment.
• Support ancillary systems in the database environment (Delphix, etc.).
• Prior ownership of audit, compliance, or regulatory interactions.
• Experience with Azure technologies as they relate to the Microsoft Data Platform is preferred.
• Ideal candidates will have some familiarity with other DBMSs and be able to monitor and triage issues across all database management systems in the Mizuho environment as required (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Postgre
  
  SQL, etc.).

The expected base salary ranges from $160,000 - $220,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered.

In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, including Medical, Dental and 401K plans, successful candidates are also eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Mizuho has a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some departments have greater in‑office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process.

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