Database- Practice Head

You are responsible for the end-to-end management of all the database engagement in Minfy, which includes P&L, EBITDA management, people management, technical advice, planning, pre-sales, proposals, providing solutions, recruitment, succession planning, up- skilling, etc.  

Responsibilities 

• Strategic planning of Database practice to meet the monthly/quarterly/yearly goals.  
  
• Responsible for the overall productivity of the team by running initiatives for automation, process improvements, 
  
• Accountable for pre-sales, project intake and estimation. 
  
• Accountable for the DBA technical leadership from project initiation to delivery. 
  
• Work closely with the client as regards delivery approach conception, methodology and eventual delivery. 
  
• Ensures appropriate organization, governance, decision making, and delivery structures are in place to drive outcomes articulated in the business case, business requirements, and program/project charter. 
  
• Ensures that standard and best practices for Database Services are adopted. 
  
• Lead and mentor a team of DBAs and serve as an escalation point for delivery issues. 
  
• Perform regular delivery risk reviews and support the project teams with escalations and resolutions as required. 
  
• Handles vendor contracting and management. 
  
• Ensure delivery meets high quality standards. 
  

Qualifications 

• Hands on minimum of 10+ years of experience in database development/ migration using T-SQL/PLSQL/PLpgSQL  
  
• Minimum of 5+ years hands-on experience on MS SQL Server  
  
• Working experience with databases of 1-10TB in size across multiple database platforms (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.)  
  
• Should have worked in heterogenous database migrations from one database engine to another 
  
• Experience in performance optimization techniques  
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively negotiate with senior stakeholders. 
  
• Excellent inter-personal skills. 
  

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience working in Lean / Agile / Scrum methodologies for enterprise IT delivery. 
  
• Managing and developing high performing project teams.