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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Database Management - **Company:** McKesson - **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $141,000.0 - $235,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** BigQuery, Health Informatics, Cloud Database, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Control, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, PL-SQL, Technical Data Management Systems, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Snowflake, Information Technology, Google Bigquery, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** August 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://mckesson.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/USA-VA-Richmond/Director--Database-Management_JR0151747 ## About the Role * Experience: Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise data engineering, database administration, and data architecture. * Industry Domain: Deep experience working within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or health tech sectors with a strong grasp of healthcare data models. * Leadership: At least 5 years in a formal manager-level role managing external global vendors and cross-functional engineering teams. * Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Health Informatics, Management Information Systems, or a related field (master's preferred). Technical Competencies * Databases: Expert-level knowledge of Oracle Database administration, architecture, and performance optimization. Leadership & Compliance Skills * Regulatory Mastery: Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks tailored to HIPAA, PHI and SOX environments. * Geographic Presence: Ability to travel to work out of our Richmond, VA offices as required by our hybrid model. * Communication: Exceptional ability to explain highly complex database architecture and compliance risks to non-technical executive stakeholders., * Cloud Ecosystems: Deep, practical experience managing workloads inside Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud Platform (Big Query). * Migration Expertise: Proven track record of executing large-scale, secure data migrations between cloud data warehouses without business disruption. * Architecture Expertise: Be part of the team to understand the architecture and execute our high-profile enterprise migration from Snowflake and Databricks to Google Big Query. ## Description The Director, Database Management leads the strategic oversight, operational excellence, and cloud modernization of our enterprise healthcare data platforms. You will manage a strategic vendor team responsible for Oracle operations, support, and development. This role requires 15+ years of data experience, sharp healthcare business acumen, and an ironclad commitment to regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOX). Core Responsibilities Vendor & Operational Management * Manage Vendor Teams: Oversee a strategic partner vendor team handling 24/7 Oracle DBA operations and production support. * SLA Enforcement: Establish, monitor, and enforce strict SLAs for system uptime, data availability, and incident resolution. * Development Oversight: Guide vendor engineering resources on Oracle database enhancements, performance tuning, and PL/SQL development. Data Architecture & Migration * Pipeline Engineering: Oversee robust ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from Oracle, Snowflake, and varied healthcare data streams into target analytics engines. * Modernization: Define the future-state data architecture, ensuring continuous data availability during critical cloud transitions. Compliance, Governance & Security * Healthcare Compliance: Architect and maintain data environments that strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations to protect Protected Health Information (PHI). * Global Privacy: Ensure all data pipelines, storage systems, and cloud environments comply with data privacy and sovereignty. * Financial Controls: Implement and audit rigorous data controls, access logging, and lifecycle management to satisfy SOX compliance requirements. Healthcare Business Alignment & Leadership * Functional Alignment: Translate complex healthcare business workflows (clinical operations, payer/provider relations, patient analytics) into technical data requirements. * Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary IT liaison to executive business leaders, medical officers, and data governance boards. * Budgetary Ownership: Manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) for database infrastructure, rising cloud consumption, licensing costs and vendor contracts., * Cloud Data Migration: Drive strategy, road mapping, and execution of migrating massive datasets from Snowflake and Databricks into Google Big Query. ## Related Videos - [How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/768-how-building-an-industry-dbms-differs-from-building-a-research-one) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Making Data Warehouses fast. 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