Database Capability Lead - SQL Platform

Why you'll love working with Tower

At Tower, our values are the heartbeat of every interaction. We prioritize our people, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, representing the vibrant communities we serve. We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and everything else that makes our culture unique. Proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks, we are committed to inclusivity and safety.

We are on a mission to lead our industry into a customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking. As a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider with over 150 years of history, our roots trace back to Dunedin.

What you will be doing

As the Database Platform Capability Lead, you will help us accelerate Tower's strategy and own our capability framework. Your role will be to help develop, govern and continuously improve this framework. You will be spending time in this leadership style role and on the tools.

Dive into the heart of your responsibilities:

• Be the role model for the behaviours and ways of working required by our operating model
• Connect the Platform Engineering chapter to the overall Tower strategy in your area of capability
• Promote a cross-chapter culture of empowerment over control, collaboration, and trust.
• Ensure the right level of documentation is up to date and in place
• Support the capability of the Platform to deliver software swiftly and safely while understanding customer impact
• Support the capability of the Database Platform Engineering team and it' members (Including 3rd parties)
  • Motivate people, build strong capability, and develop talent
  • Structure knowledge and share it across the squads
  • Federate responsibilities where possible to provide opportunities for others to step up
  • Encourage consistent and improved ways of working, including process and tooling
• Support the Capability of the Product to meet the needs of the Customer
  • Feed into the Design and Product Ideation process
  • Take a holistic approach to the wider department objectives
  • Work with capability leads, product owners others as a key stakeholder to ensure Quality
  • Work with the Architecture team to ensure solutions are well architected, designed and delivered to best practice standards and are fit for purpose
  • Cross squad awareness - what work is going on, what state it is in, how it all fits together.
• Perform operational support and management of our Database Platform.
• Provide technical direction and advice for database services.
• Share expertise and knowledge across technical teams, contribute to team strategy.
• Apply a rational and reasoned approach to problem solving to produce viable solutions.
• Ensure tooling and frameworks are fit for purpose, efficient, scalable, and maintainable and are applicable to Tower's database strategy.
• Lead database requirements for projects and initiatives
• Lead database migration and upgrade initiatives
• Develop and maintain database roadmap
• Ensure BAU activities and support is maintained and effective

What you'll need

• Solution architecture or design experience with database services.
• Real world IT infrastructure operational experience with recent active experience with Database services in Azure public cloud and On prem
• Experience managing database roadmaps and managing initiatives
• Strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL and Azures cloud platform and services - consider yourself an SQL database expert
• Understand concepts of identity management and role-based access control.
• Experience with configuring and maintaining monitoring & alerting database services.
• Proficiency with mentoring & coaching less experienced team members
• Firm understanding of Architecture, SDLC and Product development best practices
• Demonstrated experience in making decisions based on data and business value

Our commitment

We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, embracing diverse opinions, experiences, and backgrounds. Our commitment is to create an inclusive workplace where our people come first, feel valued, safe, and respected. If you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process.

What we'll bring to the table

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

Highlights include:

• Our people come first as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner`s leave.
• A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off!
• Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
• Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing.
• Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also have programmes that recognise star performers.
• Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful 6 Green Star Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas.
• Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%.
• Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary.
• Paid parental leave top up for 16 weeks.
• Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more.

Apply now: Ready to embark on a journey where your experience truly matters in the heart of New Zealand and the Pacific`s insurance industry? If you are excited about defining a new era of insurance, submit your resume and a detailed cover letter highlighting your impactful career.

Please note: We're eager to get the right person on board as soon as possible. We don't have set closing dates, so we'll start reviewing applications as they come in. Don't wait—apply now to make sure you're considered.