Principal Database Engineer

Principal Database Engineer

Requirements

• Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• A minimum of 15 years of data management, architecture, and systems experience for large-scale implementations
• Subject Matter Expert in MS SQL Server and Oracle in the areas of clustering, replication, partitioning, encryption, and high availability/disaster recovery configurations from a design, implementation, and support standpoint. Must be willing to be cross-trained and lead in other RDBMS technologies in these areas.
• Hands on experience designing and deploying secure database systems for high performance, resiliency, availability, and reliability
• Extensive experience in identifying and leading tuning and performance improvements for database systems within and across the technology stack.
• RDBMS domain expertise. Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean), and DevOps practices.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present any data management concept to stakeholders in all levels of the business
• Ability to work outside normal business hours and be part of a 24×7 on-call rotation
• Background or drug screen

Responsibilities

• Leads critical incidents from inception through incident resolution as well as throughout the root cause analysis process.
• Develops technical roadmap and strategy in collaboration with leadership, including defining goals and KPIs. Implements the technical strategy, including direction, planning and execution of database administration priorities. Monitors teams’ progress and reports out challenges and impact to priorities.
• Documents and onboards new technology and provides knowledge transfer to others
• Using expert level experience, supports the company’s commitment to risk management by protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and their data; aligns enterprise and department-level policies, procedures, and controls by attesting to verbiage, compliance, and evidence
• Forward thinking in upgrade paths, compute and storage capacity expansion, and database hardening and patching
• Transforms business requirements into technical specifications that demonstrate effective data design and system architecture to meet SLAs (RTOs and RPOs)
• Key contributor in implementing proactive monitoring/alerting and automatic corrective actions
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture including but not limited to: system installation, configuration, and performance management
• Collaborates and builds cross functional influence and motivates others; serves as internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management
• Mentor, coach, and guide other Database Engineers; monitors team efforts and provides feedback to leadership for continuous improvement.
• Works closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and creates a partnership for Early Warning where database services are reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S or Ph.D. in Information Systems or another related field
• Cloud Certification in the area for database specialization
• Extensive SQL Server and Oracle DBA experience
• SQL Server certification
• Additional experience with mainstream on-premise and cloud-based database technologies such as AWS Aurora, RDS, EC2, Azure, and OCI
• Knowledge of NoSQL and Big Data Analytics systems and use-cases such as Redshift, HBASE, and Aerospike
• Experience with Monitoring and Alerting Systems such as AppDynamics, Zabbix, PagerDuty, OEM, Idera, and CloudWatch
• FinTech experience is highly beneficial