AVP, Enterprise Database Platforms – Operations

Voya Financial

AVP of Enterprise Database Platforms leading strategy, architecture, and operations for enterprise database platforms at Voya. Ensuring reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness across diverse database technologies.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeHartford • Connecticut, Minnesota, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $171,300 - $214,120 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudITSMMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOraclePostgresRedisSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the enterprise database platform strategy across relational, NoSQL, in-memory, engineered systems, and cloud-native platforms
Translate business and application needs into standardized, scalable database platform capabilities
Establish reference architectures, standards, patterns, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business, security, and regulatory requirements
Provide architectural leadership across: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle Exadata / Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC), Oracle ZDLRA and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Azure database platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and managed services)
Lead enterprise adoption of automation-first and self-service database platforms
Stand up standardized, repeatable database provisioning and configuration pipelines to reduce manual intervention
Build and govern Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for Database-as-Code
Manage platform lifecycle from ideation through retirement
Establish platform health, reliability, cost, and automation metrics
Own financials including budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year planning

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise database architecture, engineering, and operations
Proven experience operating in a senior leadership role with accountability for large-scale, 24x7 production environments
Deep hands-on expertise across enterprise database platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
Proven success building and scaling Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and Database-as-Code capabilities
Demonstrated experience leading database modernization and migration programs across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments
Strong expertise in performance tuning, resiliency engineering, cyber recovery, observability, ITSM, security controls, and governance practices
Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills
Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical credibility.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise database architecturedatabase engineeringdatabase operationsInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC)CI/CDDatabase-as-Codeperformance tuningresiliency engineeringcyber recoveryobservability

Soft Skills

executive communicationstakeholder managementpeople leadershipstrategic leadershiphands-on technical credibility