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Senior Director, Software Engineering(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteManagement
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Associate Director, Relational Database Services(m/w/x)
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Full-timeOn-siteManagement
Nejo AI Summary
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
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Netezza
- Exasol
- AWS
- Azure
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IQIQVIA
Associate Director, Relational Database Services(m/w/x)
Basel
Full-timeOn-siteManagement
Nejo AI Summary
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
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Netezza
- Exasol
- AWS
- Azure
Find the original job posting in its most current version here. Nejo automatically captured this job from the website of IQVIA and processed the information on Nejo with the help of AI for you. Despite careful analysis, some information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Please always verify all details in the original posting! Content and copyrights of the original posting belong to the advertising company.
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About the Company
IQVIA
Industry
Healthcare
Description
IQVIA is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients.
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