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Senior Database Administrator (Enterprise Data Platforms) #3547871
Charlotte, NC
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Be Part Of A High-Performing Global Banking Technology Team:

This opportunity supports a leading international financial institution operating at scale across corporate banking, capital markets, and enterprise services. The technology organization plays a critical role in maintaining secure, resilient, and high-performing data platforms that power trading systems, risk management, finance, compliance, and internal operations.

The environment is fast-paced, highly regulated, and performance-driven. Teams are collaborative and detail-oriented, focused on maintaining mission-critical systems with zero tolerance for instability.

What’s In Store For You:

  • Work on enterprise-grade, high-availability database environments
  • Exposure to complex financial systems and large-scale transactional platforms
  • Opportunity to contribute to modernization, automation, and cloud transformation initiatives
  • Strong cross-functional visibility within a global organization

How You Will Make An Impact:

  • Administer, maintain, and support enterprise database environments across production and non-production systems
  • Ensure high availability, performance optimization, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery readiness
  • Monitor system health and proactively address performance bottlenecks
  • Implement database security controls and ensure compliance with regulatory standards
  • Partner with application development teams to optimize queries, indexing strategies, and database performance
  • Lead root cause analysis and resolution of database-related production incidents
  • Support database upgrades, patching, migrations, and capacity planning
  • Contribute to automation initiatives and infrastructure-as-code best practices

Are you a proven database administration professional ready to make an impact?

  • 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in enterprise environments
  • Strong experience with one or more of the following: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
  • Expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and execution plans
  • Experience with backup/recovery strategies, replication, clustering, and high-availability configurations
  • Strong understanding of database security, access controls, and compliance requirements
  • Experience supporting production environments with strict uptime requirements
  • Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments
  • Experience with monitoring tools and database performance diagnostics
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate in high-pressure environments
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

Preferred:

  • Experience within banking, financial services, or other regulated industries
  • Exposure to capital markets or high-volume transactional systems
  • Cloud database experience (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, managed MongoDB, etc.)
  • Scripting or automation experience (Shell, Python, PowerShell)
  • Experience supporting database migrations or modernization initiatives
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