Database Platforms Lead

Function

Were Hitachi Digital Services a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our worlds potential. Were people-centric and here to power good. Every day we future-proof urban spaces conserve natural resources protect rainforests and save lives. This is a world where innovation technology and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from whats now to whats next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We dont expect you to fit every requirement your life experience character perspective and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The Database Platforms Lead is responsible for defining designing and governing the enterprise database platform strategy and architecture. This role ensures database technologies are scalable secure resilient and optimized to support operational and analytical workloads across the organization. The position provides technical leadership for database standards performance availability automation and lifecycle management while partnering with engineering infrastructure security and application teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the strategy architecture and standards for enterprise database platforms
Oversee database operations administration monitoring and support
Ensure high availability backup recovery and disaster recovery capabilities
Manage database performance tuning capacity planning and scalability
Define and enforce database security access controls and compliance requirements
Drive automation for provisioning patching monitoring and maintenance
Support database design optimization troubleshooting and incident resolution
Lead database upgrades migrations and modernization initiatives
Establish operational procedures runbooks and documentation
Collaborate with application infrastructure security and network teams
Mentor and guide database engineers or DBAs
Evaluate emerging database technologies and recommend platform improvements
Monitor and control platform costs and resource utilization

Contribute to Organization:
Platform strategy and governance
Database standardization and best practices
Performance reliability and availability
Security compliance and risk reduction
Cost optimization and platform rationalization
Automation and self-service capabilities
Modernization and cloud migration
Incident prevention and root cause remediation
Scalable support for application and data teams
Long-term enterprise growth and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with major database platforms such as Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB or cloud-managed databases.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure
Familiarity with automation infrastructure-as-code DevOps and CI/CD practices.
Experience leading database migrations consolidation or modernization programs.
Background in database observability monitoring and operational excellence.


Where will this role impact:
This investment reduces operational risk improves performance and reliability strengthens security and compliance and lowers long-term costs through standardization and automation. It also helps engineering teams move faster by providing approved patterns expert guidance and better platform short investing in this role protects the business improves efficiency and enables scalable growth.
Role will focus on automating our core functions Platform DB Operations
Role will be leveraging AI to automate provisioning services

Were a global team of innovators. Together we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today this is the place for you.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued heard and safe to express themselves they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits support and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. Were also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). Were always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best which leads to unexpected ideas. So here youll experience a sense of belonging and discover autonomy freedom and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

Were proud to say were an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran age disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.