Principal Database Engineer (Oracle)

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you’ll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements

Why you'll love this job :

A Principal Database Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership across IT. This role supports key project driven initiatives, as well as operational tasks to maintain the integrity of infrastructure environment.

What you’ll do:

• Operate in an agile software delivery methodology environment that is highly focused on developing, deploying and enhancing multi-vendor database implementations including Oracle, MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL and AWS Aurora.
• Work collaboratively with support teams to troubleshoot and resolve Database build related issues prior to production go-live.
• Ensure all Database components meet proper performance, compliance and capacity standards.
• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the delivery of database build services.
• Implement and test disaster recovery and business continuity architecture as it relates to the Database implementation.
• Partner with Database Engineering and Enterprise Production Support for on-boarding and future support of newly deployed Database implementations.
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalate appropriately

Sound like you?

• Hands on experience with the following:
  • Oracle 19c HAS (single node DB with ASM) builds
  • Oracle 19c RAC (multi node DB cluster) builds
  • Oracle DataGuard (Active to Standby DB replication) build
  • Oracle Goldengate 19c (Object level replication from source to target) – setup and configuration
  • OEM 13c (Oracle Enterprise Manager) – Target addition, applying templates
  • Auditing, partitioning, archiving strategies
  • Performance tuning – Analyze & resolve performance issues
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the following (all not necessary but more broad, the better):
  • AWS Postgres
  • VMWARE virtual infrastructure
  • RHEL, Solaris OS
  • VMAX3, Vblock and Nutanix storage
  • Containers
  • Cloud computing
  • Autosys scheduler
• Any Database certifications or experience writing PL-SQL Stored Procedures, Python development or any scripting/automation experience are a plus but not necessary

Who We Are:

DTCC is the heart of the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 21 locations all over the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. In 2020, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at more than U.S. $2.3 quadrillion.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About DTCC

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering transforms the way we deliver infrastructure to our business clients. A key construct of EP&PE will be the evolution of the IT Product Manager, who will partner with the Engineering organization, the Business Aligned Service Delivery organization, the DevSecOps organization as well as our operational support teams to ensure that this organization provides high quality, commercially attractive and timely solutions to support our business strategy.