Manager, IT Database Administration

The Momba Group; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Retirement benefits

Professional development

Generous paid time off

Growth opportunities

Job summary

The Momba Group seeks an experienced Manager, IT Database Administration to lead a team responsible for health, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise databases across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will combine hands-on technical leadership with strategic planning, operational excellence, and people management to deliver scalable database solutions and modernization initiatives for a growing enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technology, infrastructure, or database teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise database administration, architecture, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Database Administrators.
• Establish priorities, performance expectations, career development plans, and succession strategies.
• Manage staffing, workload planning, resource allocation, and vendor relationships.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Oversee availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise databases (on-prem and cloud).
• Serve as senior escalation point for incidents, outages, and root cause analysis.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and cloud initiatives; drive automation and monitoring improvements.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, analytics, and business teams.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Database administration

Security best practices

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

Snowflake

MongoDB

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Momba Group is assisting our client, who is seeking an experienced Manager, IT Database Administration, to lead a team responsible for the health, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining people management, strategic planning, operational excellence, and deep database administration expertise.

The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable leading and developing a high-performing team while serving as a senior technical resource for complex database environments spanning both on-premises and cloud platforms.

Salary Target: $120,000 - $145,000

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Database Administrators.
• Establish priorities, performance expectations, career development plans, and succession strategies.
• Manage staffing, workload planning, resource allocation, and vendor relationships.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Database Platform Management

• Oversee the availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise database environments.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex incidents, outages, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Support and manage multiple database technologies with:
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Snowflake
• MongoDB
• Other enterprise database platforms

Architecture, Security & Compliance

• Establish and maintain standards for:
• Security and access controls
• Backup and recovery
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Monitoring and alerting
• Data protection and governance
• Partner with Information Security and Risk teams to address vulnerabilities, audits, access management, and compliance requirements.
• Lead database upgrades, migrations, cloud initiatives, platform modernization efforts, and consolidation projects.
• Drive automation of provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, patching, and operational processes.
• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions, dashboards, runbooks, and support documentation.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend strategic improvements.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborate closely with application development, infrastructure, architecture, analytics, integration, and business teams.
• Support enterprise reporting, data movement, ETL/ELT, and related data platform technologies.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes to ensure stable operations and continuous service improvement.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technology, infrastructure, application support, or database administration teams.
• Demonstrated success leading technical teams and delivering operational excellence.
• Strong understanding of enterprise database administration, architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and security best practices.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects, competing priorities, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in a technology-related field.
• Experience managing hybrid cloud and on-premises database environments.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar work management platforms.
• Knowledge of database automation, infrastructure modernization, and cloud adoption strategies.
• Experience managing third-party vendors, offshore resources, and technology budgets.

What Our Client Offers

• Competitive base salary and performance-based incentives.
• Retirement savings and long-term financial planning programs.
• Professional development and tuition assistance opportunities.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Strong culture focused on collaboration, integrity, accountability, and employee growth.
• Opportunity to lead critical database operations and modernization initiatives for a growing enterprise environment.

Note: Sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.