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IQIQVIA

Associate Director, Relational Database Services(m/w/x)

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Full-timeOn-siteManagement

Transforming global enterprise database platforms toward automation-first managed service. 5+ years leading engineering or managed service delivery teams required. On-call rotations, standardized operational controls.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years database engineering/administration or platform operations
  • 5+ years leading engineering or managed service delivery teams
  • Hands-on leadership with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, legacy/warehouse technologies
  • Strong operational rigor: incident/problem/change management, uptime, DR, capacity/performance
  • Proven success building standardized services and driving consolidation/migration programs
  • Experience in regulated environments with compliance and security requirements
  • Hybrid/cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure), managed database services, connectivity patterns
  • Vendor/license optimization and financial stewardship of platform budgets
  • Track record implementing automation-first patterns

Tasks

  • Lead transformation and operation of global enterprise database platforms
  • Drive strategic shift toward modern, scalable, automation-first managed service
  • Deliver end-to-end database managed service, including service catalog, SLAs/SLOs, intake, and escalation paths
  • Oversee incident, problem, change, and release management for high availability and predictable delivery
  • Implement standardized operational controls for monitoring, alerting, runbooks, on-call rotations, and audit-ready production governance
  • Develop and execute multi-year consolidation strategy to reduce database sprawl and legacy deployments
  • Align applications to standardized architectures through discovery, inventory classification, and migration planning
  • Partner with product/application teams to modernize platforms, eliminate duplicates, and retire end-of-life systems
  • Champion automation-first approach using standardized builds, IaC, CI/CD, automated patching, and self-service workflows
  • Define and enforce reference architectures for high availability, clustering, backup/recovery, and performance engineering
  • Own availability engineering, including failover design, DR planning and testing, and recovery execution
  • Oversee capacity planning, license optimization, and performance tuning across hybrid and multi-cloud estates
  • Enforce secure-by-design operations with privileged access controls, encryption, auditability, and policy-based configuration
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, data residency, and separation-of-duty requirements
  • Manage vendor relationships, support contracts, renewals, and tooling performance
  • Optimize licensing and platform spend through right-sizing, standardization, and service tiering
  • Lead, mentor, and scale global teams of DBAs and platform engineers, including managed service partners
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Security, Identity, Application, and Data Platform teams for stable, high-performing services and successful migrations

Work Experience

  • 10 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Netezza
  • Exasol
  • AWS
  • Azure
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