Hybrid Engineering Manager – Database Administration

at PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy

• Job title: Engineering Manager – Database Administration
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pittsburgh, United States

About the role

• Lead DBA for PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy’s scalable and secure database systems. Transition from hands-on engineering to team leadership while supporting rapid organizational growth.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and maintains SQL Server and other on-premises database systems.
• Develops and executes a Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) strategy.
• Establishes change management, patching, and maintenance processes for all database systems.
• Collaborates with the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Analytics team (~25% of time).
• Supports application teams with database deployments, performance tuning, and schema design.
• Builds and leads a high-performing DBA teams to support the organization.
• Defines and enforces database governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Mentors junior DBAs and oversees workload distribution.
• Partners with Infrastructure, Observability, and Software Development teams to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Owns database-related incident response and conducting root cause analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on DBA experience, including SQL Server and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience designing and implementing DR/HA strategies.
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience working with data warehousing and analytics teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and application deployment workflows.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience building or leading a DBA team is a plus.

Benefits

• Hybrid, remote and flexible on-site work schedules are available, based on the position.
• PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy also affords an excellent benefit package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, 401K with employer matching, employer-paid life insurance and short/long term disability coverage, and an Employee Assistance Program!
• Generous paid time off is also available to all full-time employees, as well as limited paid time off for part-time employees.
• Of course we offer paid holidays too!