Database Services Lead
About The Position
GDIT is hiring a Database Services Lead to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its effort to modernize and secure enterprise systems serving Veterans. The role provides senior technical leadership across Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms in on-premises, AWS, and Azure environments. It oversees database operations supporting mission-critical healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, identity, print/mail, and enterprise application services. The lead advances modernization, resilience, security compliance, observability, and consistent processes across database administration, operations, and application services. The role is responsible for supporting high availability and recoverability while aligning work with federal cybersecurity mandates, VA Handbook 6500, and Zero Trust principles. It also coordinates with cross-functional engineering teams, leads governance and reporting, manages modernization initiatives, and maintains operational excellence across VA’s enterprise database ecosystem.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 15 or more years of experience in enterprise IT operations, database administration, or technical leadership.
- Experience leading federal or enterprise-scale database programs across Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms.
- Strong understanding of federal cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST 800-53, RMF, Zero Trust, and TIC 3.0, and database compliance requirements.
- Ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams in multi-vendor, multi-platform environments.
- Experience modernizing database architectures, cloud transitions, virtualization migrations, and enterprise disaster recovery strategies.
- Strong stakeholder communication, project management, incident response, DR/COOP alignment, and performance reporting skills.
- Demonstrated leadership in enterprise database operations, availability management, tuning, disaster recovery, and audit readiness.
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, ITIL v4, Oracle DBA, SQL Server MCSE, or cloud database certifications.
- Experience with VA or other federal agency systems.
- Experience with RMF, ATO documentation, database modernization, enterprise integrations, or high-volume workflow systems.
- Technical depth in AWS or Azure cloud databases, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL tuning, automation, monitoring, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience supporting performance-based contracts with KPIs and AQLs.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior technical leadership across VA’s Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud database platforms in on-premises, AWS, and Azure environments.
- Oversee database operations supporting mission-critical healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, identity, print/mail, and enterprise application services.
- Drive database modernization, resilience, security compliance, observability, and unified processes across administration, operations, and application services.
- Ensure high availability, recoverability, and alignment with federal cybersecurity mandates, VA Handbook 6500, and Zero Trust principles.
- Integrate database services with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Lead governance and reporting, manage modernization initiatives, and maintain operational excellence.
- Lead enterprise database availability management, tuning, disaster recovery, and audit readiness.
Benefits
- Medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts.
- Dental and vision plan options.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible work weeks where possible.
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date.
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date.
- Paid Family Leave of up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
- Short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
- AI-enabled professional growth tools.
- Leadership development and internal mobility programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
