Database Services Team Lead

biBerk is building a cloud-first, API driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. Expanding our team, we are adding experienced software innovators to enhance our development efforts.

This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. The Team Lead for Database Services position will lead a team of database administrators and database developers, help coordinate the day-to-day activities of various team members, assist the team with roadblocks, and lead planning sessions. This team lead will work closely with other development and technology teams to support their efforts and ensure biBerk’s database systems are performing properly. They will also serve as an individual contributor on the database team, taking on tasks for both technical design and development.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the database team including managing sprint obligations and mentoring junior team members
• Serve as technical SME for database services
• Design database systems to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
• Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
• Collaborate with the Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
• Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
• Participate in staffing decisions including interviews and hiring
• Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team
• Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
• Lead the database team to think with a security first mindset
• Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
• Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
• Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)
• Design and manage Microsoft SQL server infrastructure
• Design and manage Azure SQL server infrastructure
• Design and manage Azure Cosmos database infrastructure
• Design and manage Azure Data Factory
• Design and write scripts to transform or fix data as necessary in SQL and Cosmos

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Related field or equivalent working experience
• 10+ Years of proven experience in a database administrator\database engineer\database developer or similar role, preferably a role that combined both administration and developer tasks, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
• Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams
• Ability to work from 8:00AM-4:30PM eastern time, this is currently a full-time remote position
• Ability to participate …