Strategic Database Platform Lead - Cloud & Automation

Hitachi Digital Services; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking an experienced Database Platforms Lead to define and govern our enterprise database strategy and architecture. You will provide technical leadership for standards, performance, security, and lifecycle management across operational and analytical workloads, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.

Lead upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives while mentoring DBAs and driving automation and cost efficiency across the platform.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, architecture, and standards for enterprise database platforms.
• Oversee database operations, administration, monitoring, and support.
• Ensure high availability, backup, recovery, and DR capabilities.
• Manage performance tuning, capacity planning, and scalability.
• Define and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance.
• Drive automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Support design, optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish runbooks, procedures, and documentation.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams.
• Mentor DBAs/engineers and evaluate new database technologies.
• Monitor costs and resource utilization of the platform.

Skills

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

Automation & IaC

DevOps & CI/CD

Database Migrations

Observability & Monitoring

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking an experienced Database Platforms Lead to define and govern our enterprise database strategy and architecture. You will provide technical leadership for standards, performance, security, and lifecycle management across operational and analytical workloads, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.

Lead upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives while mentoring DBAs and driving automation and cost efficiency across the platform.