Senior Database Architect/ AI-First Data Platforms Lead

Title- AI-First Data Platforms Lead 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.