Director, Database Management

McKesson•Irving, TX

8d•$141,000 - $235,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Database Management leads the strategic oversight, operational excellence, and cloud modernization of our enterprise healthcare data platforms. You will manage a strategic vendor team responsible for Oracle operations, support, and development. This role requires 15+ years of data experience, sharp healthcare business acumen, and an ironclad commitment to regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOX).

Requirements

Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise data engineering, database administration, and data architecture.
Deep experience working within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or health tech sectors with a strong grasp of healthcare data models.
At least 5 years in a formal manager-level role managing external global vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, Management Information Systems, or a related field (master’s preferred).
Expert-level knowledge of Oracle Database administration, architecture, and performance optimization.
Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks tailored to HIPAA, PHI and SOX environments.
Ability to travel to work out of our Richmond, VA offices as required by our hybrid model.
Exceptional ability to explain highly complex database architecture and compliance risks to non-technical executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Drive strategy, road mapping, and execution of migrating massive datasets from Snowflake and Databricks into Google Big Query.
Deep, practical experience managing workloads inside Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud Platform (Big Query).
Proven track record of executing large-scale, secure data migrations between cloud data warehouses without business disruption.
Be part of the team to understand the architecture and execute our high-profile enterprise migration from Snowflake and Databricks to Google Big Query.

Responsibilities

Manage Vendor Teams: Oversee a strategic partner vendor team handling 24/7 Oracle DBA operations and production support.
SLA Enforcement: Establish, monitor, and enforce strict SLAs for system uptime, data availability, and incident resolution.
Development Oversight: Guide vendor engineering resources on Oracle database enhancements, performance tuning, and PL/SQL development.
Pipeline Engineering: Oversee robust ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from Oracle, Snowflake, and varied healthcare data streams into target analytics engines.
Modernization: Define the future-state data architecture, ensuring continuous data availability during critical cloud transitions.
Healthcare Compliance: Architect and maintain data environments that strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations to protect Protected Health Information (PHI).
Global Privacy: Ensure all data pipelines, storage systems, and cloud environments comply with data privacy and sovereignty.
Financial Controls: Implement and audit rigorous data controls, access logging, and lifecycle management to satisfy SOX compliance requirements.
Functional Alignment: Translate complex healthcare business workflows (clinical operations, payer/provider relations, patient analytics) into technical data requirements.
Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary IT liaison to executive business leaders, medical officers, and data governance boards.
Budgetary Ownership: Manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) for database infrastructure, rising cloud consumption, licensing costs and vendor contracts.