Lead Architect- Data & Database Systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Glasgow, United Kingdom
16 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Software Applications
Databases
Continuous Delivery
Data Architecture
Data Security
Relational Databases
Database Queries
Software Debugging
PostgreSQL
Liquibase
MariaDB
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Azure
MySQL
Oracle Applications
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization
Release Management
Prometheus
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Datadog
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana
Database Optimization
Caching
Database Performance
Indexer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Production Code
New Relic (SaaS)
Dynatrace

Job description

  • Author and optimize queries for performance and correctness.
  • Monitor and tune database performance, including query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and caching.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for database systems.
  • Support production incidents and perform root cause analysis; participate in on-call rotations.
  • Assist application teams with data access patterns, migrations, and release planning.
  • Engage technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose data architecture approaches to meet current and future needs.
  • Evaluate recommendations for new technologies and provide actionable feedback.
  • Execute creative data architecture solutions, including design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
  • Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others.
  • Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.

Requirements

  • Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, aggregates, subqueries, and explain/analyze plans.
  • Experience with at least one major RDBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle.
  • Performance tuning experience, including indexing strategies, query profiling, and execution plan interpretation.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace or New Relic.
  • Familiarity with versioned schema migrations using tools such as Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic, or sqitch.
  • Good understanding of storage, IOPS, and how database workload relates to underlying infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with cloud-managed databases and their operational tradeoffs, including AWS RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, and Azure SQL/DMS.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and experience handling production incidents.
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Advanced knowledge of one or more software, application, and architecture disciplines, with the ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best data architecture solutions for future state architecture.

About the company

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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