Vice President, Senior Database Administrator

The Vice President, Senior Database Administrator is responsible for the strategic leadership, architecture, and operational management of all enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. This role ensures the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of mission-critical data systems while aligning database services with enterprise technology strategy.

This position oversees complex multi-platform ecosystems including relational, cloud-native, and analytical databases, and will lead both on-shore and off-shore resources in delivering highly available and secure database services.

This position requires strong technical depth combined with leadership capability, governance experience, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture

* Define and drive enterprise database architecture standards, roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.

* Provide technical leadership across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

* Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives.

* Establish best practices for scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

Platform Administration & Engineering

* Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:

* Oracle (including Autonomous Database), Postgre

SQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, Snowflake, Mongo

DB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database technologies as required.

* Responsibilities include high availability and disaster recovery architecture, performance tuning and capacity planning, patch and lifecycle management, automation and infrastructure-as-code practices, and optimization across OLTP and analytics workloads.

Cloud & Hybrid Database Operations

* Lead database deployments across cloud platforms including AWS RDS, OCI Autonomous Database, and hybrid architectures.

* Develop governance frameworks for cloud database provisioning, cost optimization, and operational controls.

* Partner with Cloud Engineering and Dev Ops teams to implement automation, CI/CD integration, and platform observability with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code.

Security, Risk & Compliance

* Ensure database platforms meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.

* Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on vulnerability management, encryption standards, and access governance.

* Implement secure configuration baselines and data protection strategies.

Team Leadership & Resource Management

* Lead and mentor both on-shore and off-shore database administration teams.

* Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers.

* Establish operational procedures, service level objectives, and performance metrics.

* Provide escalation leadership during critical incidents and production events.

Operational Excellence

* Drive automation and standardization of database operations.

* Develop monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance practices.

* Improve reliability through continuous improvement initiatives.

* Support enterprise programs including cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and data center transitions.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).

* 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.

* Demonstrated expertise across multiple database platforms (Oracle, Postgre

SQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, Mongo

DB, DB2, Redshift, etc.).

* Proven experience managing hybrid cloud and on-prem database deployments.

* Experience leading distributed technical teams including offshore resources.

* Strategic thinker with strong execution capability

* Ability to balance governance with engineering innovation

* Strong incident leadership and crisis management experience

* Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security practices.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with Autonomous Database, AWS RDS, or large-scale cloud-native data platforms.

* Background in IaC and CI/CD automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar).

* Experience supporting mission-critical or regulated environments.

* Knowledge of data warehousing, analytics platforms, and modern data engineering patterns.

Employee Programs & Benefits:

CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:

* Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits

* Employee assistance & wellness programs

* Parental and family leave policies

* CCI in the Community:
Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.

* Charitable contribution match program

* Tuition assistance & reimbursement

* Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration…