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# Database Platforms Lead

- **Company:** Orangepeople LLC
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $39,520.0 - $61,880.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Database Design, Database Security, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle (Applications), System Availability, Database Optimization, Database Migration, Wikis, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usd0dc25507e1ce342834f469802e67713

## About the Role

* Experience with major database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or cloud-managed databases.
 * Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
 * Familiarity with automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
 * Experience leading database migrations, consolidation, or modernization programs.
 * Background in database observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

## Description

* Lead the strategy, architecture, and standards for enterprise database platforms.
 * Oversee database operations, administration, monitoring, and support.
 * Ensure high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.
 * Manage database performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability.
 * Define and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance requirements.
 * Drive automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and maintenance.
 * Support database design, optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
 * Lead database upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
 * Establish operational procedures, runbooks, and documentation.
 * Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams.
 * Mentor and guide database engineers or DBAs.
 * Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend platform improvements.
 * Monitor and control platform costs and resource utilization.

Contribute to Organization:

 * Platform strategy and governance.
 * Database standardization and best practices.
 * Performance, reliability, and availability.
 * Security, compliance, and risk reduction.
 * Cost optimization and platform rationalization.
 * Automation and self-service capabilities.
 * Modernization and cloud migration.
 * Incident prevention and root cause remediation.
 * Scalable support for application and data teams.
 * Long-term enterprise growth and operational excellence., * Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
 * Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
 * Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
 * Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested., As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Production Management team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, bui…
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