Database - Lead

Database - Senior Engineer:

Mandatory Skills:

Performance Tuning Scalability, PL/SQL (including PL/SQL Packages), PostgreSQL

Additional Skills:

Ansible

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise database engineering initiatives supporting scalable, reliable, and high-performance database solutions aligned with organizational objectives.
• Establish database engineering standards, governance frameworks, and development best practices across teams.
• Establish engineering standards for logical and physical data modeling, database schema design, normalization, denormalization, indexing strategies, and database optimization best practices.
• Lead the design of scalable database architectures supporting enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Define enterprise standards for PL/SQL development, database programming, and data access optimization.
• Establish relational database architecture standards across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL Server environments.
• Define architecture and governance standards for non-relational database platforms including MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB, HBase, and CouchDB.
• Drive enterprise performance optimization and scalability initiatives across database platforms and application ecosystems.
• Establish database performance tuning, indexing, capacity planning, and optimization standards.
• Define engineering practices for production database support, incident management, root cause analysis, operational reliability, and continuous performance improvement.
• Lead architecture reviews and ensure database solutions meet scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance objectives.
• Guide teams on database architecture, data persistence strategies, performance engineering, and scalability best practices.
• Establish standards for database deployment automation, schema version control, and CI/CD practices to improve release reliability and deployment consistency.
• Identify database risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural gaps while defining mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with various teams and leadership stakeholders to align database initiatives with organizational objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on database maturity, performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and delivery excellence.

Behavioral Competencies

• Demonstrate leadership and accountability in driving database engineering excellence across programs and initiatives.
• Collaborate effectively with various teams and business stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery.
• Promotes a culture of quality, optimization, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Applies strategic thinking to address database challenges, scalability risks, and business priorities.
• Demonstrates strong decision-making while balancing performance, scalability, reliability, and delivery objectives.
• Communicates effectively regarding database strategy, risks, dependencies, and operational outcomes.
• Maintains a proactive approach toward engineering governance, database standards, and solution excellence.
• Drives engineering excellence by promoting database reliability, operational resilience, governance, and continuous modernization.
• Encourages innovation and continuous learning within database engineering and data management practices.
• Drives collaboration and alignment across teams to achieve organizational objectives.
• Demonstrates a customer-centric mindset by delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality database solutions.

Mandatory Competencies

Database - PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL

DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - DevOps/Configuration Mgmt - Ansible

Database - Oracle - PL/SQL Packages

Data AI - Database - Database Design Data Modelling

Data AI - Database - Performance Tuning Scalability

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