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