Technical PM (Database Operations)

Tata Consultancy Services; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Sunnyvale seeks a Technical Project Manager to oversee enterprise database environments. You will lead a team of DBAs, ensure availability, security, and performance, and drive automation and optimization across on‑premises and cloud platforms.

You will coordinate with application, infrastructure, security, and cloud teams, manage upgrades and DR testing, monitor KPIs, and implement best practices to meet SLAs and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a DBA team and coordinating large database environments.
• Extensive experience with multiple database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Strong focus on security, compliance, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Ability to plan upgrades, migrations, backups, DR testing, and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage day-to-day database operations across multiple database platforms.
• Manage a team of DBAs, including resource planning, performance management, mentoring, and skill development.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, security, and performance of production databases.
• Oversee database monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, patching, backups, recovery, and DR testing.
• Establish and maintain database operational standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to support business initiatives.
• Drive automation initiatives using scripting and database management tools to improve efficiency.
• Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and database optimization activities.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Support cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, or Google Cloud SQL.
• Prepare operational reports, KPIs, SLAs, and executive dashboards.
• Participate in change management and release management processes.
• Manage vendor relationships and coordinate support activities with database vendors.

Skills

Team Leadership

Database Administration

Incident & Problem Management

Performance Tuning

Capacity Planning

Disaster Recovery

Cloud Database Management

Job description

Job Summary

The Technical PM is responsible for overseeing the administration, performance, availability, security, and operational support of enterprise database environments. This role leads a team of DBAs, ensures database systems meet business and service-level requirements, and drives automation, optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives across on-premises and cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage day-to-day database operations across multiple database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Manage a team of DBAs, including resource planning, performance management, mentoring, and skill development.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, security, and performance of production databases.
• Oversee database monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, patching, backups, recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
• Establish and maintain database operational standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to support business initiatives.
• Drive automation initiatives using scripting and database management tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and database optimization activities.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Support cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, or Google Cloud SQL.
• Prepare operational reports, KPIs, SLAs, and executive dashboards.
• Participate in change management and release management processes.
• Manage vendor relationships and coordinate support activities with database vendors.

Required Skills

• Team Leadership
• Database Administration
• Incident & Problem Management
• Performance Tuning
• Capacity Planning
• Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Database Management