Senior Manager - Enterprise Database Systems

Job Posting:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries: Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

The Senior Manager of Database Systems is responsible for leading the design, engineering, and operational management of Ferguson’s database environments across on-premises, cloud, and disaster recovery infrastructures. This role oversees a team of technical engineers, ensuring database systems are highly available, secure, performant, and aligned with licensing and patching standards. In collaboration with the team, this leader ensures that database platforms are installed and configured in alignment with vendor best practices and business requirements. The Senior Manager actively monitors system performance and provides strategic recommendations for scaling, upgrades, and lifecycle management.

This role also plays a key part in developing long-term strategic roadmaps, maintaining service-level agreements (SLAs), and aligning database initiatives with broader IT and business goals. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, the Senior Manager regularly partners with senior leadership across Ferguson to define and deliver robust architectural strategies and engineering solutions.

Location: This position may be remote or hybrid in accordance with company policy. (If located within 40 miles of Headquarters in Newport News, VA, you will be considered a Hybrid employee; 3-days in office and 2-days remote.)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning

• Lead and mentor a team of Database Administrators and Engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Drive architectural standard processes and pivotal initiatives for database systems to enable high availability, scalability and performance.
• Develop and implement database systems standards, guidelines and processes to ensure consistency, predictability, quality and compliance.
• Collaborate across internal IT teams, including development and service towers, to ensure database solutions align with application and business-specific requirements.
• Plan and develop overall strategies for the future database systems landscape; applying metrics and customer/collaborator feedback to instill and perpetuate a high degree of coordination between services towers, database systems, and related teams to ensure effective data management as a combined organization.

Execution & Delivery

• Implement and maintain distributed database systems, optimizing for performance, fault tolerance, security and technical/disaster recovery.
• Ensure effective database versioning, schema management, and backward/forward compatibility to support continuous development and legacy application environments.
• Oversee the day-to-day management, administration and related operations of all Oracle, SQL and related database systems (including Oracle Exadata) to ensure robust and available database solutions to enable high-volume transactional workloads.
• Lead incidents and root cause analysis-related efforts to support resolution(s) for database-related incidents; driving accountability and continuous improvement.
• Is a trusted advisor and builds and manages relationships with the Ferguson Technology leadership team to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensuring cost-effective delivery of applicable database systems services to meet those needs; maintaining agility to changing business priorities.
• Develops and is accountable for the annual operating and capital expenditure budget as it relates to database systems-related areas.
• Works closely with the CISO and our Security/Compliance teams to ensure SOX compliance and adherence to all defined security policies, requirements and procedures.

Other Ferguson Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving the Ferguson culture through values and customer se