Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India. Job Description We are in search of the world’s most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organizations. As a key member of the Sr Manager of database operations leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in the strategic and operational management of our global database systems. Partnering closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and business units, you will architect scalable and resilient solutions that support our enterprise platforms and strategic producer partners. This role requires strong leadership, technical, and operational skills to ensure high availability, security, scalability, and optimal performance of critical business systems. You will lead multiple teams of exceptional engineers, provide direction on technical architecture, influence cross-functional initiatives, and contribute to our technology strategy and ensure that the standard operating procedures are followed and revised as per needs. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of database systems, distributed architectures, and enterprise SaaS platforms—someone who is both a hands-on technical expert and an inspiring leader. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN and you will be adding your creativity and energy to it. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career. Core Requirements and Responsibilities: Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following: ·        Lead the database operations strategy to support our growing portfolio of products with a focus on performance, security scalability, and high availability. ·        Lead a team of DBA’s and database engineers promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. ·        Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE to ensure our data infrastructure enables high-quality customer experiences. ·        Conduct regular performance reviews, providing feedback and professional growth. ·        Coordinate with the TAG team for recruiting, interviewing and hiring new team members as needed. ·        Define and maintain the policies, standards and procedures for database management and operations. ·        Drive architectural decisions for data storage, replication, disaster recovery, and reliability across cloud and hybrid environments. ·        Set the vision for database automation, monitoring, observability, and incident response. ·        Build and mentor high-performing teams through coaching, career development, technical guidance and promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. ·        Optimize our use of both relational and NoSQL technologies in alignment with product scalability and user needs. ·        Own the health and lifecycle of all database environments. ·        Oversee the design, implementation, and management of SQL Server database instances (on-premises and cloud). ·        Ensure high availability, performance tuning, and reliability of database systems. ·        Manage routine database maintenance, patching, upgrades, and backups. ·        Implement and enforce security policies, including encryption, access control, and auditing. ·        Lead performance tuning initiatives, including indexing strategies, query optimization, and resource management. ·        Manage capacity planning and resource scaling. ·        Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery plans and backup/recovery processes. ·        Ensure regular testing and compliance with recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO). ·        Establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) for database operations and provide regular reports to senior management ·        Implement robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms to quickly detect and revolve database related issues