Vice President, Senior Database Administrator

Castleton Commodities International; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Castleton Commodities International seeks a Vice President, Senior Database Administrator to lead enterprise database strategy and operations across on-premises and cloud environments. You will architect scalable, secure data platforms, drive modernization, and oversee high availability in demanding environments.

The role requires 10+ years of experience across Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, and more, with strong leadership of distributed teams and a focus on automation, IaC, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent).
• 10+ years of progressive database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Expertise across Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB, Redshift, and more.
• Proven experience managing hybrid cloud and on-prem deployments.
• Experience leading distributed technical teams including offshore resources.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution capability and governance balance.
• Strong incident leadership, disaster recovery, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise database architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Provide leadership across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Lead deployments across cloud platforms and automate provisioning with IaC.
• Ensure security, audit, and regulatory requirements are met.
• Mentor on-shore and off-shore database teams and manage vendors.
• Drive operational excellence with monitoring and proactive maintenance.

Skills

Multi-database platforms

Cloud & hybrid architectures

Team leadership

Incident leadership

Automation & IaC

Security & compliance

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Snowflake

MongoDB

Redshift

DB2

Oracle Autonomous Database

Job description

The Vice President, Senior Database Administrator 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.

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.

Platform Administration & Engineering

• Provide leadership and hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including but not limited to:
• Oracle (including Autonomous Database), PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Sybase, IBM DB2, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, 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.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• 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.

Team Leadership & Resource Management

• 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.
• Demonstrated expertise across multiple database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, MongoDB, DB2, Redshift, etc.).
• 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.

Employee Programs & Benefits

CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:

• Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
• Employee assistance & wellness programs
• Parental and family leave policies
• CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.
• Charitable contribution match program
• Tuition assistance & reimbursement
• Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
• Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
• Competitive paid time off
• Continued learning opportunities