Senior Database Engineer

Overview As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. By taking the time to truly understand people, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation—leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. Our bold ambition is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future, innovate the way we deliver financial services, work in friendly, supportive teams, and build lasting value in your community. Take your learning as far as you can, or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here. Responsibilities Manage databases by administering, installing, configuring, upgrading, and patching. Monitor and optimize database performance, utilizing advanced skills in database tool usage including capacity planning with a detailed analysis and recommendation. Perform database backup and complex recovery. Perform strong troubleshooting, diagnosing and recovery from complex database issues. Provide strong technical assistance and advice to application teams. Coordinate with internal IT and escalate to vendors for timely response/recovery. Automate routine tasks using scripts and open-source tools. Gather requirements, design business and technical aspects, develop, test, implement, and write queries, stored procedures, and automation scripts for various database technologies. Design and implement cloud-based database solutions on AWS and Azure, ensuring best practices for security, scalability, and performance. Utilize AWS RDS, Aurora, and Azure SQL Database for managing relational databases, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery configurations. Monitor cloud database performance using tools like AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor and optimize resource allocation based on usage patterns. Implement and manage geo-redundant database architectures in cloud environments, ensuring data integrity and availability across multiple regions. Qualifications Minimum requirement of 10+ years of experience in database administration, encompassing installation, configuration, backup/recovery, patching, database tuning, and support for application design and development. Proficiency in physical database modelling, information engineering, multi-tier design and development, and open systems. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in database high availability and disaster recovery techniques and concepts. Experience in performance analysis (IO, CPU, etc.) and optimization (indexes, partitions, schema redesign, etc.). Familiarity with geo-redundant database architectures (Always-On, Active/Active, Master/Master, etc.) will be considered advantageous. Relevant experience with Oracle, SQL Server, EDB Postgres, MongoDB. Experience with cloud-native database services, including familiarity with serverless database options and microservices architectures. Knowledge of cloud security best practices for databases, including encryption, access control, and compliance considerations. Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. What We Offer Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers. Job Details Seniority level: Mid-Senior level Employment type: Full-time Job function: Information Technology Industries: Banking #J-18808-Ljbffr