DBA Manager

Insight Global; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a seasoned Lead Database Administrator to guide and grow an enterprise DBA team, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and recoverability of critical database platforms. You will stay hands-on to resolve complex incidents and drive improvements across architecture, automation, upgrades, migrations, and production support.

You will own operational health across on-prem and cloud environments (SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, MongoDB), directing provisioning,

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leadership with DBA expertise.
• Experience across on-premises and cloud database platforms.
• Ability to drive automation, monitoring, and runbooks.
• Proven capability to manage vendors and licensing.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain a team of database administrators.
• Remain hands-on as escalation point for incidents and outages.
• Own the operational health of enterprise database platforms across environments.
• Drive automation of provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, patching, access control, and compliance.
• Develop monitoring dashboards, run-books, and support procedures.
• Oversee database-adjacent platforms and services such as reporting and ETL/ELT.
• Define roadmaps, evaluate new capabilities, and recommend investments.
• Manage vendors, licensing, renewals, and professional services.
• Forecast staffing, workload, budget, contractors, and offshore/nearshore resources.

Skills

Team leadership

Hands-on DBA

Mentoring

Incident escalation

Architecture

Automation

Monitoring

Runbooks

Vendor management

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle

Snowflake

MongoDB

Job description

• Lead the enterprise Database Administration team responsible for the availability, performance, security, recoverability, and lifecycle management of database platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that develops people and operational practices while directly contributing to architecture, troubleshooting, automation, upgrades, migrations, and complex production support.

What You'll Do In This Role:

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain a team of database administrators; set priorities, performance expectations, career development plans, and succession strategies, and recruit talent as needed.
• Remain hands-on as a senior database administrator and escalation point for complex incidents, performance issues, outages, and root-cause analysis, including after-hours support when required.
• Own the operational health of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, MongoDB, and other database technologies.
• Drive automation of provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, patching, access administration, and compliance evidence to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.
• Develop and maintain database monitoring and alerting capabilities, operational dashboards, on-call readiness, run-books, troubleshooting guides, and support procedures.
• Oversee database-adjacent platforms and services assigned to the team, including reporting services and ETL/ELT data-load technologies.
• Define database technology roadmaps and lifecycle plans; evaluate new capabilities and recommend investments that improve scalability, reliability, security, supportability, and cost effectiveness.
• Manage database vendors, licensing, support agreements, renewals, and professional services at the operational and project levels.
• Manage staffing, workload, budget, contractors, and offshore or nearshore resources; forecast skills and capacity required to meet operational and project commitments.