Principal Database Engineer

Job Description

As Principal Database Engineer, you will design, develop and implement platforms, systems and pipelines to facilitate data capture, access and analysis.

The Principal Database Engineer will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with business leaders to determine project requirements; ensuring requirements are clear, concise and technically feasible.
• Engineering scalable, cloud-based data solutions; applying data engineering best practices.
• Building human-fault-tolerant pipelines; ensuring the functionality of applied database solutions.
• Monitoring current databases for handling and logging errors; resolving data integrity issues.
• Collaborating closely with infrastructure and cloud engineering teams to ensure functionality of database solutions.
• Ensure databases align with the bank delivery governance standards as well as all cyber and cloud computing policies & standards
• Performing the transformation of logical data architectures into physical data designs, according to database design best practices and standards.
• Developing physical data architectures that enable robust and extensible solutions that meet both short and long term business requirements.
• Leading the development of plans and strategies, best practices and standards related to data management processes, database products, database security and programs.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in database engineering, data management, database administration; experience managing technical personnel
• Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Neo4j, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, MS SQL Server etc.)
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS cloud hosted databases
• An understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
• Experience with cloud computing and streaming technologies - OpenShift, Kafka
• Experience with agile development methodology
• Strong SQL performance & tuning skills as well as data modelling

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in the banking industry
• Experience working in multiple cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, OCI or Google
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Liquibase or equivalent)
• Experience with Elastic Stack or any other front-end development tools

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
• AWS Professional and/or Associate (or equivalent) certifications in Database Technology

Hours & Work Schedule

Hours per Week: 40

Work Schedule: Monday-Thursday

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