Lead DBA Consultant

ITC Infotech; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental/Vision coverage

401K

PTO

Job summary

ITC Infotech in Stamford, CT seeks a Senior Database Administrator/DBA Manager to lead enterprise database strategy, architecture, and operations across on‑premises and cloud, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. You will oversee hybrid environments and mentor distributed teams.

The role demands deep technical depth, governance experience, and collaboration with security, infrastructure, and application teams to drive modernization and cost control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead database deployments across cloud platforms including AWS RDS and OCI Autonomous Database.
• Develop governance frameworks for cloud database provisioning, cost optimization, and operational controls.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to implement automation and CI/CD integration.
• Ensure database platforms meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and mentor on-shore and off-shore database administration teams.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Crisis management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Amazon Redshift

IBM DB2

Snowflake

MongoDB

MS SQL Server

OCI Autonomous Database

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Position Type: Full Time (With comprehensive Benefits including Medical, Dental/Vision coverage, 401K, PTO etc.)

Role Overview:

Job Description:

The Senior Database Administrator/DBA Manager 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.
• Provide leadership and hands‑on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
• Oracle (including Autonomous Database), PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, IBM DB2, Snowflake, MongoDB, 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• 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.

Education Qualification

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (equivalent experience acceptable).

ITC Infotech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. ITC infotech is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.