Senior IT Database Administration Lead Hybrid Cloud Security

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 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.