Senior Database Engineer

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
• Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join Barclays as Senior Database Engineer where you'll be stepping into a key technical leadership role. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our database administration, ensuring our technological approaches are both innovative and relevant. At Barclays - we're committed to pushing boundaries. You will also be responsible for guiding high-impact projects to fruition, collaborating with management, and developing strategic roadmaps that align with Bank’s business goals.

To be successful in this role, you must have,

• Extensive experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on MongoDB as Subject Matter Expert along with working with large, distributed, high-performance, high availability databases.

• Good understanding of MongoDB architecture, including replica sets, sharded clusters, and data distribution, security features, monitoring, and diagnostic tools, such as PMM, Ops Manager, or third-party solutions.

• Proficiency in MongoDB database performance tuning, optimization techniques, backup & recovery strategies, including point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery procedures.

• Familiarity with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.

• Experience in implementing MongoDB Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a MongoDB operator or a Helm chart and in Observability tools like ESAAS.

• Excellent collaborative skills with good spoken and written English communication skills.

Some other highly valued skills may include,

• Working experience in a financial environment.

• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) and working on Data migration tools and software's.

• Experienced in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Pune office.