Database Principal Engineer

• Develop and maintain the long-term strategy for database infrastructure, ensuring alignment

with the bank's overall IT and business strategies.

• Function as a subject matter expert and advisor on all matters related to database

technologies, providing guidance to senior leadership and IT teams.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define technical

requirements and technical specifications.

• Co-Lead the design and architecture of the bank's shared database solutions (DBaaS/PaaS),

followed by their implementation.

• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies and advancements in

engineering practices, evaluating and recommending innovative solutions as appropriate.

• Support the Platform Lead and identify solutions to engineering gaps/challenges.

• Facilitate development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps/challenges.

• Act as key point of contact for engineering decisions from a technical and risk perspective.

• Look to innovate/improve processes, reducing hand-offs and automate processes.

Do you have experience in Software development?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant

discipline.

• 10+ years' experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or

principal engineering position.

Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql,

deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case

and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.

• Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity

planning.

• Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software

development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application

system's design.

• Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps

Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and

Infrastructure as Code.

• Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.

• Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality

solutions.

• Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer

• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.

• Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to

understand and drive the platform, product or service's direction.

• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate and convey complex

technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience of evaluating multiple technology solutions in order to define and

design best fit for a particular use case.