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- The Database Engineering team is responsible for managing public and private cloud databases and responsible for the design, build, and operational aspects of the database.
- The Director Database Engineering is responsible for leading the database team and will be responsible for the strategy, design, implementation, and operations of database solutions.
- You and your team will engage with the infrastructure and application development teams and support the adoption of cloud database solutions and provide a clear path to migrate from the private cloud to the public cloud.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead engineering and support teams that will support modernization efforts.
- Collaborate and align with the modernization plans of the platform and application development teams.
- Create a mature distributed database service (i.e. Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL) that is attuned to the customer’s needs by promoting self-service capabilities.
- Extensive involvement in audit and regulatory reviews for all items related to the cloud database space.
- Encourage & lead automation initiatives for public and private cloud databases.
- Strong people leadership to empower, encourage, and engage.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience of database engineering, delivery, and support.
- Ability to work across teams to create partnerships that achieve organization goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture.
- Ability to technically lead the cloud database technology team along with providing transparency and insight that can be consumed by business teams.
- Proven understanding of AWS cloud database technologies.
- Passionate about building a strong team to support the organization’s goal for modernization.
- Solid understanding of automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab.
- Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle management & the Agile methodology.