Enterprise Database Platforms Lead

Hitachids; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking a Database Platforms Lead to define, design, and govern the enterprise database platform strategy. You will champion scalability, security, resilience, and cost efficiency across operational and analytical workloads.

You will provide technical leadership for standards, performance, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams. This role requires mentoring DBAs and guiding modernization efforts.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Cloud databases

Tools

Automation

Infrastructure-as-code

DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking a Database Platforms Lead to define, design, and govern the enterprise database platform strategy. You will champion scalability, security, resilience, and cost efficiency across operational and analytical workloads.

You will provide technical leadership for standards, performance, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams. This role requires mentoring DBAs and guiding modernization efforts.