Database Engineer (Remote)

Full Time
Buffalo, NY 14203
Posted
Job description
Employment Requirements
This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

Job Description
Invest in your future by being a part of an innovative technology team! Our partner is a financial services organization focused on making a difference in people’s lives and the communities they serve. As an organization founded more than 165 years ago, they now employ 22,000 people dedicated to the company’s values of integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and candor. Here, you’ll be empowered to build products that revolutionize the way their customers do business.

The job holder works under supervision of a Technology Manager and is responsible for maintaining a strong degree of technical RDMS knowledge and contributing to solution design, departmental strategies and resource allocations of the department. Responsibilities of the position may include problem resolution, systems development and day-to-day activities. This position assumes responsibility for contributing to the growth and development of less experienced personnel. The position delivers small group training/brown bag to increase team proficiency and technical development and provides backup to more experienced personnel as required. The job holder may be called upon to serve as a technical representative on committees, ad-hoc projects, etc. The position interacts, on a regular basis with Technology staff and application teams and leadership, as well as vendors.

If hired for this role, you would:
  • Provide Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) support to applications supported by assigned department.
  • Work with Application Teams, Team Leads and other Database Administrators to design and specify RDBMS solutions based on standard offerings to support development of new or enhancements of existing applications.
  • Serve as principal RDBMS solution designer for small to large/complex (size/risk) application projects, including business critical applications, using analytical skills, technical skills, available technology and tools.
  • Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for RDBMS-related initiatives, discretionary projects, compliance/regulatory requirements and system changes for Application Database Services (ADBS) supported applications and department-wide initiatives.

Please note: This role is 75% day to day work including on-call and 25% automation.


Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership.
  • Complete and oversee basic to complex database analysis, design and development efforts.
  • Develop plans for database implementation, data source integration and data archiving and recovery.
  • Manage, direct, oversee and/or review execution of small to large size/risk project plans on assigned applications and ensure complete understanding of tasks and dependencies and mitigation of issues.
  • Contribute to advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state-of-the-art technical or industry knowledge.
  • Maintain a strong functional understanding of supported applications. Maintain a current understanding of the business environment supported to provide expert guidance for technical, business and operational impacts associated with a project or production problem.
  • Recommend RDBMS designs based on business requirements, technology roadmap, RDBMS functionality, knowledge of interfacing technology and clear understanding of customer expectations.
  • Evaluate and understand complex interrelationships and effects among RDBMS, interfacing applications and operating systems.
  • Provide highly analytical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of database technologies to assist business units in meeting strategic objectives.
  • Prepare thorough and clear technical specifications, and update systems, standards and RDBMS process documentation.
  • Prepare and review assessments to include required tasks, estimated time frames and effort for small to large size/risk scope project.
  • Build positive client relationships by addressing client needs in a manner that safeguards their business and customers, with minimal complexity, risks and costs.
  • Build rapport within the organization and across other technical teams.
  • Assist with coordination of annual disaster recovery exercises and remediate issues.
  • Assist others on project execution and production support for all applications and project sizes.
  • Work with internal and external application and technology stakeholders to review status of initiatives, compliance/regulatory changes, planned or potential vendor changes and contractual and/or system maintenance changes.
  • Ensure identification and resolution of issues and concerns related to discretionary enhancement requests, application reliability changes and/or production problem resolution.
  • Identify new technology that increases technical support efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Provide functional feedback to internal application owners and technology stakeholders on current or proposed RDBMS to extent it supports predefined business needs.
  • Identify performance and effectiveness enhancement opportunities and recommend new policies and procedures that support improvement.
  • Participate in ADBS Center of Excellence teams goals and deliverables.
  • Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
  • Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the company’s brand.
Maintain company’s internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
  • Complete other related duties as assigned.


Qualifications
  • Associates degree and 6 years RDBMS experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 6 years RDBMS experience.
  • 5+ years experience with Oracle.
  • 5+ years experience with Linux.
  • 3+ years experience with Ansible or other automation technology (ie Salt, Chef, Puppet, etc)
  • 3+ years experience with source code management and automated build technologes (ie Git, Github, GitLab, Azure Pipelines, Maven, Jenkins, Udeploy, etc.)
  • 3+ years experience with Python, Shell (KSH, BASH), PowerShell, Terraform or other scripting language.
  • Experience with one of the major clouds (ie Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Experience with Agile methodologies (ie Scrum or SAFe)
  • Familiarity with networking, VMWare, Hypervisors, Active Directory, and Kerberos

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