Senior Database Manager

Role overview

Strategy and platforms

• Own the database operating model, standards, procedures, documentation, work allocation, and service quality objectives.
• Lead enterprise database platforms; establish engineering, naming, configuration, lifecycle, upgrade, patching, backup, and monitoring standards.
• Review and approve designs for applications, integrations, migrations, upgrades, and major changes; assess emerging database technologies and inform the roadmap.
• Govern Exadata and ODA lifecycle and administration, including compute, storage, network components, ASM disk groups, and Exadata storage operations.
• Oversee Exadata hardware fault diagnosis procedures and approved escalation.

Availability, security, and service

• Ensure critical databases meet availability, integrity, performance, and recovery requirements; govern high availability, replication, clustering, standby, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Test backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery; manage capacity, performance, monitoring, alerting, and production database inventories.
• Govern least privilege, privileged access, auditing, encryption, hardening, access reviews, and applicable Oracle security products.
• Ensure production database changes and patching follow approved testing, approval, rollback, and evidence procedures.
• Lead incidents, problem management, root cause analysis, and coordination with development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application support, and service owners.

Operations, vendors, and leadership

• Manage vendors, contracts, renewals, licenses, support cases, end-of-life risks, inventories, architecture records, runbooks, and operating procedures.
• Define departmental KPIs, provide reporting, support audits, remediate findings, and ensure compliance with Group policies, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27001, and relevant obligations.
• Train and mentor team members, share knowledge, and develop backup resources for critical technologies and procedures.

Continuity and responsible AI

• Own database continuity and resilience plans; regularly plan, document, test, and review switchover, failover, restore, and recovery activities.
• Validate recovery objectives, address single points of failure and capacity or redundancy risks, maintain synchronized disaster recovery environments, and participate in enterprise recovery exercises.
• Use approved AI tools for monitoring, triage, analysis, forecasting, documentation, and recovery planning; validate all outputs and do not expose sensitive information or autonomously execute in production.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field is mandatory.
• Requires 10+ years of IT experience, 8+ years in enterprise database administration and engineering, and 5+ years in team or technical leadership.
• Requires strong hands-on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server experience and operational knowledge of PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Advanced Oracle Database professional certification such as OCP or equivalent is mandatory.

Preferred certifications

• Oracle Exadata Administration certification and current Microsoft database administration certification or equivalent are preferred.
• ITIL Foundation or higher is preferred.
• PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB training or certification is advantageous.
• Business continuity, information security, cloud computing, Linux, or systems engineering certifications are advantageous when relevant.