Dahl Consulting · 5 hours ago
Lead Database Platform Engineer
Minnetonka, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$50/hr - $80/hrDahl Consulting is partnering with a large, mission-driven organization in the healthcare and health insurance space to hire a Lead Database Platform Engineer. This senior-level platform engineering role focuses on building, automating, and operating enterprise database platforms at scale, with an emphasis on technical leadership and ownership.
ConsultingHuman ResourcesInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and evolve Snowflake account, environment, and workload architectures aligned with defined platform standards
Support enterprise database platforms (Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) using shared automation patterns and operational practices
Define and enforce database platform standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
Own and evolve CI/CD patterns for database platforms to enable safe, repeatable, and automated delivery across environments
Design and implement infrastructure-as-code and database change automation using tools such as Terraform, Liquibase, and Git-based workflows
Automate environment provisioning, onboarding, and access workflows to reduce manual effort and delivery friction
Ensure consistency across development, test, and production environments
Partner with cloud engineering teams to integrate database platforms with Azure networking, identity, and security architectures
Support cloud-first and hybrid database deployment models aligned with enterprise standards
Enable secure and scalable connectivity between database platforms, applications, and downstream data services
Implement replication, failover, and recovery patterns to meet defined recovery objectives
Develop and maintain disaster recovery runbooks, validation procedures, and testing practices
Participate in resiliency testing and continuous improvement of recovery strategies
Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility for performance, capacity, and cost usage
Support incident response and root cause analysis for database platform issues
Reduce operational toil through automation and improved platform standards
Document operational patterns, runbooks, and platform requirements
Act as a technical lead influencing database platform direction and adoption across teams
Partner with application, data, cloud, and security teams to remove delivery bottlenecks
Mentor engineers and database administrators through standards, documentation, guidance, and hands-on support
Enable team members to operate as DevOps-oriented database practitioners within delivery teams
Qualification
Required
Extensive hands-on experience operating enterprise database platforms in production environments
Strong experience with Snowflake and at least one of the following: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
Proven experience designing, building, and owning CI/CD pipelines for database or infrastructure platforms
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, and Git-based workflows
Experience integrating database platforms within Azure environments, including networking, identity, and security services
Strong understanding of role-based access control (RBAC), security models, and least-privilege design
Demonstrated ability to lead platform changes across teams and operate effectively in environments with ambiguity and cross-team dependencies
A strong ownership mindset, focusing on outcomes, enablement, and reliability rather than ticket-based execution
Ability to clearly explain architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience mentoring, coaching, or developing engineers and database administrators through standards, documentation, and hands-on guidance
Comfort influencing without formal authority and partnering across application, cloud, data, and security teams
Evidence of progressive growth into increased responsibility over time
This is a senior-level role and not an early-career or pure individual contributor position
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
Experience implementing Liquibase or similar database change management tooling
Experience with data replication, CDC, or event-driven integration patterns
Experience designing, testing, and validating database disaster recovery strategies
Experience with cost governance, resource optimization, and usage monitoring
Prior experience acting as a technical lead, platform engineer, or enablement-focused senior engineer
Demonstrated interest in expanding leadership scope over time, including platform strategy and team maturity
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Dahl Consulting
Dahl Consulting is a staffing and recruiting company that offers talent management solutions.
Founded in 1993
51-200 employees
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