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Stefanini North America and APACAbout the role
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AI-First Data Platforms Lead – Executive Summary
Location: Dallas TX-Onsite
Own the enterprise database platform strategy, architecture, governance, and technology roadmap.
Lead the transformation from traditional DBA operations to an AI-first Database Platform Engineering model.
Drive AI-powered automation for database provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, performance tuning, and incident management.
Build and manage self-service database provisioning capabilities to accelerate engineering delivery and reduce manual effort.
Ensure database platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, highly available, and cost-efficient across on-premises and cloud environments.
Lead database modernization, consolidation, migration, and cloud adoption initiatives.
Establish standards, best practices, governance, and lifecycle management for enterprise database platforms.
Implement observability, predictive monitoring, and AIOps capabilities to proactively prevent outages and improve reliability.
Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Application teams to deliver platform services and approved patterns.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), DevOps, CI/CD, and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) capabilities.
Ensure compliance, data protection, access controls, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness.
Mentor and develop database engineers while fostering a culture of automation, innovation, and operational excellence.
Evaluate emerging database, AI, and cloud technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities.
Optimize platform costs through standardization, automation, capacity planning, and resource utilization.
Job Requirements
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Business Impact
Reduces operational risk through intelligent automation and standardized platforms.
Improves performance, availability, reliability, and security of enterprise databases.
Accelerates provisioning from days to minutes through self-service capabilities.
Enhances compliance and governance while reducing manual administrative effort.
Lowers long-term support and infrastructure costs through automation and platform rationalization.
Enables engineering teams to move faster with AI-enabled platform services and expert guidance.
Creates a scalable foundation that supports enterprise growth, cloud strategy, and future AI initiatives.
Key Success Measures
Significant reduction in manual DBA effort through AI and automation.
Faster database provisioning and deployment cycles.
Improved uptime, reliability, and recovery capabilities.
Reduced incident volume and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
Increased adoption of self-service database services.
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through optimization and standardization
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise database platform strategy and architecture
- Lead transformation to an AI-first Database Platform Engineering model
- Drive AI-powered automation for database operations
- Build self-service database provisioning capabilities
- Ensure database platforms are secure and scalable
- Lead database modernization and cloud adoption initiatives
- Establish standards and best practices for database platforms
- Implement observability and predictive monitoring capabilities
Qualifications
- Requires a leader capable of driving database modernization and implementing AIOps to reduce operational risk and manual effort.
- Must be proficient in IaC, DevOps, and cloud migration strategies to optimize total cost of ownership.
Skills mentioned
About Stefanini North America and APAC
Global Tech Consulting Company All in One. Stefanini is a Brazilian multinational company with 37 years of experience and presence in 41 countries. With more than 38,000 employees, we co-create solutions for a better future, driving digital transformation with a focus on real results. We operate in an integrated way through 7 specialized business units: Consulting (Technology and Business Agility), Analytics & AI, Banking & Payments, Cybersecurity, Manufacturing 4.0, and Digital Marketing. Recognized as the most internationalized technology company in Brazil, according to the Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) ranking, Stefanini is global by essence, collaborative by nature, and strategic by vocation. It is also a pioneer in applying Artificial Intelligence to transform businesses through an end-to-end AI-First approach.