Senior Database Administrator (Enterprise Data Platforms) #3547871

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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