Job Description
Title: Practice Leader - PostgreSQL Database Team
Location: Denver, CO preferred but open to Anywhere in the USA
Datavail is currently looking for a Practice Leader for our PostgreSQL Database team with a successful record of leading enterprise customers through a variety of transformative projects involving IT Strategy, consulting, complex database solutions, and hybrid cloud operations.
This role brings an exciting opportunity to run and grow Datavail's PostgreSQL Database Practice, which is one of the fastest growing in the company. The Practice Leader runs a global operations team of PostgreSQL DBAs at many different experience levels. We are looking for someone who not only has worked with offshore operations but is at the forefront of working in the AWS, Azure and OCI cloud. You will be working with multiple cloud partners such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
This position is a great career opportunity where you get to run your practice, work with other database technology leaders and grow your base business.
If you would like to get a head start on this role, please consider taking the Kolbe A index and bring your results to the interview. https://secure.kolbe.com/k2/show_takeIndex/indexType_A
Responsibilities
- Engage customers - collaborate with enterprise sales managers and solution architects to develop strong customer and partner relationships and build a growing business to enable sales
- Create solutions within your practice that are relevant to the market
- Looks for database market tends
- Partner with sales reps and related teams to nurture deals and bring them to closure
- Work with the service delivery team in order to ensure customer success
- Operate a practice of about 7 Primary DBAs onshore and 30 offshore with a manager offshore
- Develop processes and procedures to increase efficiency and reliability of your team
- Deliver value - lead high quality delivery of a variety of customized engagements with partners and enterprise customers in the commercial and public sectors
- Lead great people - attract top Database talent to build high performing teams of consultants with superior technical depth, and outstanding customer relationship skills
- Be a customer advocate - Ensure your customers are getting the value from your practice's services
- Be able to adapt to learning and being able to speak to your database platform that a customer may be interested in
- Responsibility over a Profit and Loss statement (P&L)
- Ensure profitability and performance of your team
- Speak at conferences and webinars
- Work with marketing to ensure your practice is at the forefront of lead generation
- Reports to the SVP of Database Services
Basic Qualifications - BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science, MIS, MBA background preferred
- At least 8 years' experience as the following: PostgreSQL Senior Database Administrator, Lead and Manager
- Cloud Certifications
- Has led multiple database migrations from multiple RDMS' to PostgreSQL
- Highly technical and analytical, possessing 15 or more years of progressive technology implementation and support experience
- Ability to travel to client and partner locations when needed
- Ability to travel to our offshore locations as needed (Colombia, India, Canada)
- Outstanding customer relationship management, delivery experience and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, solution, and technical challenges
- At least three years' experience as a consulting practice leader as manager of a team over at least ten people
- Works well with peers and supervisor to further department and company goals; open to feedback
- Foster our core values
- Desire to serve - Our approach to our work and our lives is one of humility and servant leadership. We earnestly care about our clients and our colleagues. We act and operate as one unit, helping everyone succeed and offering help to others in need, regardless of our role, title, or the task at hand
- Passion for work - At the end of the day, we want to go home proud, not rested. Our company is full of energized, hardworking individuals that want to outperform industry standards.
Humbly confident - We know that a job well done - a job that makes our clients look great - is more important than awards and accolades. We work to serve our customers and we take pride in their success - Flexibility for availability - This means we put the needs of our clients first but also understand our employees' work-life balance. Our industry and our role in servicing customers require us to be flexible when we work. When the business needs us, we respond with our availability. At the same time, the business shows flexibility in employees taking time off to balance personal interest in exchange for this flexibility
- Growth-oriented - We are passionate about growth and will never be done growing! We've been growing fast and believe growth creates career opportunity for our employees and strengthens the effectiveness of our service
Preferred Qualifications - Meets/exceeds PostgreSQL's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
- Visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to enterprise database solutions
- Vertical industry solutioning and delivery experience of contemporary services and solutions
- Experience with design of modern, scalable delivery models for technology consulting services
- Experience with the Traction leadership concepts
As part of the Datavail team, you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects with a mandate to innovate, create, and deploy some of the best technology solutions in the world.
The opportunity to work alongside our broad team of experts to learn, grow and build your career can only be found in one place - Datavail. Working at Datavail is not just a career, but an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. Come grow with us!
About Us Datavail is a leading provider of data management, application development, analytics, and cloud services, with more than 1,000 professionals helping clients build and manage applications and data via a world-class tech-enabled delivery platform and software solutions across all leading technologies. For more than 17 years, Datavail has worked with thousands of companies spanning different industries and sizes, and is an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation (Azure), an Oracle Partner, and a MySQL Partner.
About the Team Datavail's Team of PostgreSQL Experts Can Save You Time and Money We have extensive experience with just about everything in PostgreSQL. Our consultants, architects, DBAs, and database development team have extensive hands-on experience in traditional on-prem PostgreSQL and in Cloud too. Our experts have an average of 15 years of experience. They've overcome every obstacle in helping clients manage everything from databases, analytics, reporting, migrations, and upgrades to monitoring and overall data management.
You can free up your IT resources to focus on growing your business rather than fighting fires. Our PostgreSQL experts can guide you through strategic initiatives or support routine database management.
Datavail's Comprehensive PostgreSQL Database Services Datavail offers PostgreSQL consulting services that allow you to take advantage of all the features of the PostgreSQL database. By providing high availability solutions, building high end database systems, architectural support, and managed service support our team can ensure optimal performance for your database on-prem or in the cloud.
PostgreSQL Database Managed Services Datavail's business focuses on helping you use your data to drive business results through cost-saving services. The success of your business depends on how well you understand and manage your data. Our managed cloud services give you the power to unleash your organization's potential. We provide comprehensive and technically advanced support for PostgreSQL installations to ensure that your databases are safe, secure, and managed with the utmost level of care.
Our delivery performance in data management leads the industry. We offer highly trained PostgreSQL database administrators via a 24×7, always on, always available, global delivery model. With the combination of a proven delivery model and top-notch experience ensures that Datavail will remain the database experts on demand you desire. Datavail's flexible and client focused services always add value to your organization.
Are you a seasoned PostgreSQL Database Administrator? Does working in a multi customer, multi domain environment on global scale motivates you? If yes, this role could be a good fit for you.
Datavail is seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated, and passionate PostgreSQL DBA to join our PostgreSQL Global Practice. As a PostgreSQL DBA, you will be working on the latest Opensource technologies in the industry. This position is based out of our global delivery centers in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore in India.
Datavail is one of the largest data-focused services company in North America and provides both professional and managed services and expertise in Database Management, Application Development and Management, Cloud & Infrastructure Management, Packaged Applications and BI/Analytics.
Why should you work at Datavail? - Learn from a vast pool of global PostgreSQL DBAs with over 500 combined years of industry experience.
- You would be working with multiple customers in a multi domain environments.Work range: On-Prem core PostgreSQL DBs, AWS RDS & Aurora, and Azure - PostgreSQL.
- Your Certifications would be on us.
- Future Opportunity for permanent deputation on H1B to work in US.
- Leverage the DV Training program to upscale the technical skills.
