Sr. Manager, Database

• Lead the database operations strategy to support our growing portfolio of products with a focus on performance, security scalability, and high availability.
• Lead a team of DBA’s and database engineers promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE to ensure our data infrastructure enables high-quality customer experiences.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, providing feedback and professional growth.
• Coordinate with the TAG team for recruiting, interviewing and hiring new team members as needed.
• Define and maintain the policies, standards and procedures for database management and operations.
• Drive architectural decisions for data storage, replication, disaster recovery, and reliability across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Set the vision for database automation, monitoring, observability, and incident response.
• Build and mentor high-performing teams through coaching, career development, technical guidance and promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize our use of both relational and NoSQL technologies in alignment with product scalability and user needs.
• Own the health and lifecycle of all database environments.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and management of SQL Server database instances (on-premises and cloud).
• Ensure high availability, performance tuning, and reliability of database systems.
• Manage routine database maintenance, patching, upgrades, and backups.
• Implement and enforce security policies, including encryption, access control, and auditing.
• Lead performance tuning initiatives, including indexing strategies, query optimization, and resource management.
• Manage capacity planning and resource scaling.
• Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery plans and backup/recovery processes.
• Ensure regular testing and compliance with recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO).
• Establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) for database operations and provide regular reports to senior management
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms to quickly detect and revolve database related issues
  
   

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• Overall, 15 years of experience with 10+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration (2016 and newer).
• Strong technical knowledge of relational (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra). Will be beneficial
• 5+ years of team leadership or management experience in a database operations role.
• Familiarity with Dyna trace
• Proven expertise in designing and running large-scale, distributed database systems in high-growth environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Deep knowledge of database internals, Always on Availability Groups, replication, clustering, and security features.
• Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Strong experience with T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Server performance monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with SQL Server in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure SQL, AWS RDS for SQL Server).
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Are energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done
• Have an ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth
• Can create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization
• Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable development teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies
• Think End-to-End by connecting all the pieces of the business
• Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrating a passion for people’s development and mobility
• Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them
• Are creative turning problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better designs, better technical solutions, better products
• We love development managers that:
• Bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment
• Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort
• Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers
• Are driven to improve, personally and professionally
• Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions
• Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business
• Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset
  
   

Preferred

 

• Microsoft certifications (e.g., MCSE: Data Management and Analytics, Azure Database Administrator Associate).
• Experience in DevOps practices, automation (AWS), and CI/CD for database deployments.
• Exposure to data warehousing, SSIS/SSRS/SSAS, and data governance practices