Head, Database Services

at  OCBC Bank

Head, Database Services - (230000VP)
We are looking for an experienced database lead who thrives in a fast-paced environment. This is an impactful role where you’ll be tasked with designing, building, and maintaining diverse database infrastructure. The position requires problem recognition, troubleshooting, prioritization of steps, resolution, and implementing recommended solutions to meet the defined SLI for databases. This includes environment build, capacity planning, installations, configurations, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring. Work also involves providing consulting to multiple development teams on analysis, design, development, and performance tuning – driving improvements in reliability and optimisation for databases.
The candidate should be motivated to work in fast-paced, fast-growth environment where many changes take place routinely. The candidate will expect to work with a diverse team of system analysts, system engineers, and developers. The candidate must also strong believer of automating database operations aspects like provisioning, deployment, observability, incident lifecycle, uptime SLA, etc.

REQUIREMENTS:

• General Bachelor’s degree in related Information Technology disciplines
• At least 10 years’ experience on database administration, including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, database tuning and support of application design and development
• Experience with database (i.e. Oracle, MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB) modelling, information engineering, and multi-tier design
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with High Availability and Disaster Recovery techniques and concepts
• Experience with performance analysis (IO, CPU, etc) and optimisation (indexes, partitions, schema redesign, etc)
• Experience with geo-redundant middleware & database architectures (always-on, active/active, master/master, etc) will be an added advantage
• Curious person with strong problem solving & analytical skills
• Essential to have a can-do attitude to work under multi-tasking environment
• Self-motivated and possess drive, and ability to work independently and a good team player
• Results-oriented person with a focus on delivery
• Experience in performing root cause analysis of production problems and provide quick service recovery if required
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Good communication (written and verbal) and inter-personal skills to manage technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
  Primary Location: Singapore
  Job: Technology Solutions
  Organization: Group Operations & Technology Division
  Schedule: Permanent
  Job Posting: 04-Jun-2024, 11:39:29 P

• Administer databases and responsible for keeping database systems that support all user-facing services running smoothly 24/7/365
• Coordinate the allocation of system storage and plans future storage requirements for the middleware & databases.
• Perform database performance monitoring and tuning, including advanced skills in the effective use of database tools.
• Perform requirements gathering, business design, technical design, development, testing, implementation, writing queries, stored procedures, cursors, triggers, and scripting in open-source database technologies.
• Lead on database reliability & performance aspect with the application teams.
• Analyse solutions and implement best practices for supported databases.
• Provide databases expertise through the migrations, queries and performance
• Investigate on problems / incident and work on resolutions as needful for databases
• Lead the database performance monitoring and tuning, including advanced skills in the effective use of database tools.
• Performs requirements gathering, business design, technical design, development, testing, implementation, writing queries, stored procedures, cursors, triggers and scripting fir middleware and database technologies
• Identifying on improvement opportunities and assess business requirements against alignment to current architecture
• Driving productivity, recommending improvements, remediation and operational excellence to identify opportunities for improvement
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