Technical Manager, Oracle Database Engineering

Team Name:

IT - Infrastructure Engineering

Job Title:

Technical Manager, Oracle Database Engineering

Requisition ID:

R025580

Job Description:

Job Title:  Technical Manager, Oracle Database Engineering

Department:  IT Infrastructure and Database

Location: Remote

Your Mission

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a leader for an Oracle engineering team responsible for a diverse portfolio of Database technologies that power our online games. Database Engineering deploys, maintains, and tunes all technologies that store our critical customer, gameplay, and development-related data.

The Oracle team is always ready to adapt to changing requirements by our game team customers, and work with them to engineer and support the technology solutions that best support a product’s development.

The Technical Manager is ultimately responsible for the ongoing maintenance and support of database technologies and systems currently in production at Blizzard. Additionally, they partner with development teams to design and constantly re-evaluate their technology stack to ensure that it is optimal for each service. Building relationships is key; an ideal candidate will be able to establish a rapport with Technical Directors and Server Engineering Leads across the company, enabling a cooperative relationship between Database Engineers in IT, and the engineers who design the applications that power our online games.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility for the health and performance of all critical persistent database technologies at Blizzard with Oracle/Exadata

• Management of public cloud database services, Oracle@Azure experience a plus

• Strategic planning, road mapping, and setting a vision for the team

• Overseeing technical projects that align with higher business and department goals

• Collaborating with partner and customer teams on the architecture and health of their environments

• Mentor, grow, motivate, and develop the team

• Identifying opportunities for innovation by studying new products and industry trends

• Fostering a culture of success and continual improvement

Requirements

• · A minimum of 8+ years of experience in information technology and a minimum of 5+ years of experience leading teams in tech

• A strong foundation in relational and non-relational DB theory

• Experience with a wide range of Oracle offerings; able to draw upon past direct and indirect experience to successfully guide a large team to success

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to coach and develop managers and individual contributors in their organization successfully

• Forward-thinking attitude and resistance to complacency, focusing on long-term goals and what IT at Blizzard will look like in years to come

• Uptime-focused – our services are always available, performant, and reliable

• Able to resolve conflicts or disagreements in a win-win fashion across all their sub teams

Pluses

• Previous experience in database administration

• Experience with application development, specifically interfacing with the database

• Experience leading a large customer-facing database infrastructure supporting millions of end users

• Experience working in an environment with multiple international teams around the globe

• Degree in a relevant technology-related discipline

• A passion for making Blizzard games the best in the world

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

 

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

 

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. 

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $121,500.00 - $224,880.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.