Lead DBA Consultant

The Senior Lead Database Administrator is responsible for the strategic leadership, architecture, and operational management of all enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. This role ensures the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of mission-critical data systems while aligning database services with enterprise technology strategy.

This position oversees complex multi-platform ecosystems including relational, cloud-native, and analytical databases, and will lead both on-shore and off-shore resources in delivering highly available and secure database services.

This position requires strong technical depth combined with leadership capability, governance experience, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Database Strategy & Architecture

• Define and drive enterprise database architecture standards, roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Establish best practices for scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization.

Platform Administration & Engineering

• Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
• Oracle (including Autonomous Database), PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database technologies as required.
• Responsibilities include high availability and disaster recovery architecture, performance tuning and capacity planning, patch and lifecycle management, automation and infrastructure-as-code practices, and optimization across OLTP and analytics workloads.

Cloud & Hybrid Database Operations

• Lead database deployments across cloud platforms including AWS RDS, OCI Autonomous Database, and hybrid architectures.
• Develop governance frameworks for cloud database provisioning, cost optimization, and operational controls.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to implement automation, CI/CD integration, and platform observability with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure database platforms meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on vulnerability management, encryption standards, and access governance.
• Implement secure configuration baselines and data protection strategies.

Team Leadership & Resource Management

• Lead and mentor both on-shore and off-shore database administration teams.
• Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers.
• Establish operational procedures, service level objectives, and performance metrics.
• Provide escalation leadership during critical incidents and production events.

Operational Excellence

• Drive automation and standardization of database operations.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance practices.
• Improve reliability through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support enterprise programs including cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and data center transitions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise across multiple database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB, DB2, Redshift, etc.).
• Proven experience managing hybrid cloud and on-prem database deployments.
• Experience leading distributed technical teams including offshore resources.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution capability
• Ability to balance governance with engineering innovation
• Strong incident leadership and crisis management experience
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Autonomous Database, AWS RDS, or large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Background in IaC and CI/CD automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar).
• Experience supporting mission-critical or regulated environments.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, analytics platforms, and modern data engineering patterns., Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (equivalent experience acceptable).

Salary Range: The base salary range for this position is $80-90/hr. Actual compensation will depend on factors including skills, experience, location, and business needs. In addition to base salary, this position would have comprehensive benefits & 401K with employer match.

ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech provides business-friendly solutions to help clients succeed and be future-ready, by seamlessly bringing together digital expertise, strong industry specific alliances and the unique ability to leverage deep domain expertise from ITC Group businesses. We provide technology solutions and services to enterprises across industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality, through a combination of traditional and newer business models, as a long-term sustainable partner.