Database Engineer

Join us as a Database Engineer" at Barclays, where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. Youll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Database Administrator, MongoDB, SRE, telemetry, ESAAS, PMM, Grafana, Prometheus, DevOps, performance tuning, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a "Database Engineer", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Experience as a Senior Level Database Administrator, with a focus on MongoDB.
• Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
• Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e. g. , ESAAS, PMM, Grafana, Prometheus, ) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
• Experience in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
• Experience 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 charts.
• Recognized as a MongoDB subject matter expert, serving as the technical escalation for complex database issues.
• Proven experience in executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
• Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Working experience in a financial environment
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience of working on Data migration tools and softwares
• Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
• Expert expertise with scripting languages (e. g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks
• AWS Certified Database - Specialty certification is a plus.

This role will be based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.